Nazis' Hungarian Gold Train Derailed

By the spring of 1945, Hitler's thousand year Reich had come crashing down in flames. The Allied armies that had landed at Normandy almost one year earlier had penetrated deep inside Germany. Soviet forces were shelling the city, and by April, Adolf Hitler, situated in his fortress bunker, would commit suicide.

Throughout Europe, plans were underway by various high-ranking German officers to save themselves. Many planned to make their getaways with the plunder taken from millions of holocaust victims, who had perished in the concentration camps and that which had been confiscated in occupied countries.

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