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Decoding the unknown: what happened to all that Nazi Gold? Switzerland: yes, yes what did happen with all of that.. gold? Why am I sweating? No reason.
You know, that unfortunate boating accident, no idea what happened. Where did it happen? We don’t know, the records of that were lost in a fire. What burned? Not sure, those records were lost in an earthquake. What quake? We don’t know, my dog ate the paperwork.
To put a damper on treasure finding: If you find Gold in your garden in Germany, it is automatically the gouvernments. No finders fee is given. No excavation expenses are paid back. If you find an explosive reminder of the second biggie, you are expected to pay for the disarming. Why would I want to report any of the two findings again?
How do they charge you for disarming? Whats the hourly rate? Do they account how much it costs to train the specialist or its just their salary? Super curious.
@@alperenozturk9235 I haven't had the pleasure yet, but you pay - to some extent - the police evacuating and securing the area, the specialists and the disposal of the explosive material itself. It's not a flat rate as far as I've heard about it. But it can easily amount north of 50.000 Euros. That's also why it's important when buying property in Germany to get a document certifying that there are no recorded duds dropped there. They do have records at the local gouvernment offices of some of them. As I said, you don't want to be the one digging it up.
Round 3 I wrote a new script for the whistleverse and emailed Simon again. I'm desperately trying to infiltrate the basement. I won't stop until I'm in.
Honestly I suspect that if you really wanted to find a large chunk of the missing treasures all you would need to do is take a close look at some of the very wealthy families that were around at that time. My mother was at a conference in France several years ago and met a new teacher from a very prestigious private school in Europe that a lot of old money wealthy families set their kids too. This teacher recounted something that had happened earlier that year where she had been talking about some of the lost art that disappeared during WW2, and one of her students spoke up when one of the pictures of one of the lost peices was on the screen and basically said "oh that one isnt missing, it's hanging in our house" essentially. The teacher mentioned this to the superintendent who basically told her, yeah we know that kinda stuff happens a lot around here, best thing to do is keep your mouth shut.
I'm admittedly a big fan of the show Expedition Unknown, and it's always fun when this show covers a topic they've done. It's pretty realistic so far as those sorts of shows go (he basically admits that the thrill is in the hunt and a large portion of it it probably nonsense), but being made for TV they kinda hype the legend up a little.
I'm a pretty solidly skeptical dude, like the word "believe" doesn't really register much in my worldview, but I've always enjoyed Josh Gates' shows. Especially Expedition Unknown. He's a charismatic dude, always respectful to locals, and they go to some really cool places and tell some very entertaining stories. It's like my one "pseudoscience" guilty pleasure .
@@semaj_5022 absolutely. The guy oozes charisma and IS at least a professionally trained archaeologist, unlike the majority of those grifters on shows. And either his personal charisma or OUTSTANDING production team gets him into all kinds of places that the other people can't even get into. And I figure half the reason he "buys into" legends is because it gets him access to people like the Polish dudes mentioned in this very video, and how he got permission to dive in iirc that exact same lake. Absolute champ for any of us history fans who can't shake the love of Indiana Jones and shit.
@@BruceBoyde That's what it is! He gives me strong Indiana Jones vibes! Thanks for helping me figure out part of what I like so much about him and his work. Yeah they've been allowed into some astonishing places. Even if they are, you know, searching for ghosts in Petra or something, it's still awesome getting to see some of these places from as up close as their team is often able to get.
2:20 - Mid roll ads 3:20 - Back to the video 4:15 - Chapter 1 - The biggest robbery in History 8:35 - Chapter 2 - The origin story 13:55 - Chapter 3 - Merker's mine 19:35 - Chapter 4 - The hungarian gold train 24:05 - Chapter 5 - Time for a treasure hunt 24:25 - Chapter 6 - Lower silesia & the polish gold train 32:30 - Chapter 7 - The michaelis diary 35:50 - Chapter 8 - Treasure in a dutch town 39:25 - Chapter 9 - Lake toplitz 49:00 - Chapter 10 - At the bottom of the deep blue sea 54:35 - Chapter 11 - Argentina 58:40 - Chapter 12 - The real kelly's heroes 1:02:40 - Chapter 13 - March impromptu 1:04:30 - Chapter 14 - And many other places 1:06:45 - Conclusion
In an interesting turn of events…. An early piece by Monet was returned to the descendants of the rightful owners in New Orleans, Louisiana. The piece was stolen by the Nazis and was thought lost for 80 years. The piece was returned today by the FBI. The piece Bord de Mer was painted in 1865, and was abandoned when the owners fled Austria in 1938. The painting was confiscated and sold by the Nazis. Ironic that I just watched this episode 2 days ago and this story hits the news.
My great-grandfather was a dentist in Austria(?) and when he was in the concentration camps, they made him pull the gold fillings from the bodies of his friends and fellow victims. The Nazis didn't even have to take it from someone they murdered. They made the other prisoners do it. I can't even find the right adjective for how horrible and cruel this is.
90 tons of gold in 1939 would have been just over $100million dollars at the time. Which with inflation over the years would equate to about $3Billion in today's currency
My Grandfather [I’m 78] had opened a Swiss account in the 1920's. All my side of the Family died during WWII. I had the Bank name AND account number. I went to the Bank in Bern and asked for access to my account. After a runaround at the bank, THEY CALLED THE POLICE. I'm still pursuing this after 50 years.
The gold was brought to the Rothschild's Federal Reserve EXTORTION Center, courtesy of Operations Paperclip. The CIA is a nasty, vile organization, worse than the NAZI.
Although Switzerland is by no means innocent in this whole affair, I'd like to add the following caveats: 1) Switzerland wasn't rich before, during, and right after WWII. As a nation without natural resources (besides water and pebbles, lol), the banking sector was one of the few sectors of the economy that was viable and stable, thanks to our neutrality and the "banking secret". There were fears that just "nilly-willy" handing back the accounts to whoever showed up and claimed to be so-and-so's relative would severely hamper any future banking dealings as who would trust a bank that just handed it your money to someone else? Especially since at the time, there were also concerns that the actual owners of these accounts were in fact still alive and could technically still show up and demand their money (which would be gone if the bank has just handed it out to someone with the last name and therefore the bank would have been liable etc etc). So the banks clammed up, which was neither delicate nor morally very good, but also somewhat understandable (kind of like the idea that it's better to have 10 criminals go free than for 1 innocent man to be imprisoned). Part of the banking success back then was the no prying questions asked so when a German national would show up after the war, with their proper paperwork to their accounts, the bankers would hand out the money, and I assure you, the likelihood of an SS officer doing this in uniform was rather low. They were a business after all and had their own contracts to honour. I really wish that things had been handled better back then but sadly, it is what it is. Also nowadays, you cannot just show up with money of unclear origin and set up an anonymous account etc. That banking secret is gone 😂 2) Switzerland was at times, entirely surrounded by the 3rd Reich and Italy. Although Hitler never attacked, this wasn't a very pleasant situation, with the Swiss population being kept basically hostage. Swiss authorities had to find a balance between neutrality and you know, angering the mustache guy with the big army. The plan of action in case he attacked was to abandon everything, cities, population, land, you name it, to retreat the army (not the civilians!) to the mountains and make it so costly to conquer, that the 3rd Reich would reconsider any plans. Had they attacked, the swiss army wouldn't really have defended their country and instead more like just avenged it, essentially. Giving Hitler just enough cooperation to keep him from realising those war plans was crucial in survival since the allies would have had no way of you know, helping, if Switzerland had actually antagonized the 3rd Reich enough to be attacked. It was not the morally pure stance of the later victors of WWII, it was just dogged survival. So picture all this ... Just for Switzerland to be outright accused of being Nazi sympathiser and collaborators after the war. No wonder the authorities clammed up and weren't exactly forthcoming with forcing the banks to cooperate with restitution efforts. All in all, Switzerland was not exactly a clean sheet but also shouldn't be vilified over much, just putting it out there
As a British guy with German ancestors I'd advise accepting the criticism as totally valid. Everyone's country has done plenty of bad stuff and whilst I don't think anyone should pay for the sins of their fathers it is annoying and offensive when people deny history and try to make excuses for the past. There's a lot of examples of the Swiss being less than neutral throughout WW2.
In the off chance that nobody else has already answered the question, yes, bearer bonds are real, although they haven’t been widely used (or even legal, at least in the US) for a few decades. However, I think that any bonds issued prior to a certain date (late 1970s- early 1980s, don’t quote me on the dates though) would still be considered “valid” (provided the entity that issued the bond(s) still exists and has the liquidity to “pay out” the bond’s stated value).
I’m free 24/7 of late, suffered an accident and I have multiple herniated discs and a few fractured vertebrae. Since you’ll have to do most of the leg work, why don’t we split it 80/20 in your favor?
@@jacksonbauer5199oof, sorry about your injuries. You won't be able to participate in the heist, but every crew needs a man in the chair. I do hope you heal up soon friend.
To be fair to the manslaughter charges, if you're a former SS officer and anything you do recreationally ends with a body. There is enough reasonable suspicion to charge you.
The music thing was a plot from a Sherlock Holmes movie during the war staring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The message was hidden in the slight differences in the notes in five music boxes. He used his violin to figure out which notes and deciphered the message.
11:42 happened to my family my great great grandfather was very wealthy he deposited the money in the Swiss bank, but he and my great great grandmother were murdered during the Holocaust at Bergen-Belsen my grandfather and his family were never able to recover the money they from the Swiss banks and we were not one of those families that were paid back.
As far as I know, the Merkers Mine is in Thuringia (Thueringen) in Germany, and can be visited touristically. I had planned to go there for a trip some years back, but it never materialised.
I wish they would add links to the episodes he references in these videos. He has too many channels to go hunting through them all trying to find the ones he mentions.
Let me suggest Decoding the unknown bingo cards. Items would include things like: Nazis, illuminati, Freemasons, aliens, ghosts, kaijū, psychic, ..... Etc .... What other items do we include ? ( Need between 24 & 75 items )
Good thing you got the ad in quick because after 8 minutes I was tired of watching someone try and read a report and fail I guess this is a good reminder as to why I stopped watching this channel but you keep making new ones to try and trick me
the submarines went to Antarctica because there is the mythical neuschwabland, which is very close to the northern entry point of the hollow earth, where the arians fight lizardpeople, freemasons and the spanish inquisition! think factboy, think!
1:08:07 unsure if Ilze is British or not, but to have a British guy say objects of value to a group of people “belongs in a museum” felt pretty bold of a take
So I'm financially poor at about $50k before taxes. Not dirt poor but poor. A 1/4oz Gold Coin at about $600 is a major thing for me and owning just a few is very exciting for me. Just 1/4oz. A friend inherited a pre-33 American Double Eagle and we had a revel party to show it off. And TONS of the stuff just got lost?! Yeah, that tracks.
I'm gonna guess most of it is in Switzerland, some is in Argentina, and the rest is probably in a combination of The United States, Former Soviet Union, and modern day Isreal.
@@jameskelly7782"how did our family get so rich grandpa?" "well dear grandson, when i was a part of the transportation corps back in 45, i did so well fighting the Germans that i was paid a huge bonus while cataloguing all those German bunkers"
There’s lots in Argentina. Wasn’t it recently (like just before Covid) they found a small horde with a staff marked with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika? Argentina has to be hiding plenty.
Yeah, almost every family has some "memento", that grandpa brought home from the war. Aka robbed from ppl, who were already destitute, whether directly or indirectly by taking "mementos" home instead of having them returning to the rightful owners. Anything, thats not like a Luger pistol taken off a Nazi officer, is stolen either directly from victims or stolen by Nazis and then re-stolen by selfglorifying "liberators". Plenty of stories here in Europe about these "liberators", who went across the continent like locusts, expecting not only the fawning gratitude of the locals, but also to be given free rein to take whichever "memento" they fancied. And yes, Americans, Im looking at u. It wasnt just the Soviets, who stole on a government scale. American soldiers were notorious for collecting their "mementos", that their grandchildren and greatgrandchildren now brag about.
To be fair to Switzerland, they were surrounded by the axis, and refusing to do banking with them while still maintaining the accounts of the allies would have been unnecessarily antagonistic, violate their neutrality principles, and possibly led to an invasion. They were powerful enough to be a tough nut to crack, and it’s doubtful that the germans could have ever forced their way into taking over the whole country, but Hitler didn’t exactly have a reputation for only declaring wars he could win.
A large part of the gold (or maybe all of it) was moved, towards the end of the war to a salt mine in Germany, known as Merkers for safe keeping, along with art and other valuables, where it was then stolen by the US. That's why the mine is still full of trucks the Americans used to transport everything from the mine, the Americans took everything of value and left the trucks. I worked as a German cave tour guide in Slovenia and i spoke with an older German man from that area. As far as i know it's no secret at all, atleast not to the people from that part of Germany.
About that unexploded ordnance found by a construction crew. Was that in 2000? Near the old Financial Times building? I was working in that building at the time. It was wild.
Can y'all make an episode on Havana syndrome? I learned about it recently and it's keeping me up at night. Please decode that for me so I can keep my sanity
@@u-crm114 It was on this channel and they debunked it as a myth. However they have pulled the video down now. Since Simon gets more from AIPAC than RUclips these days he'll probably do another one where he blames it on Russia.
2:13 just fyi in 500 euro bills 1 million is aproximately 2 kilos which makes the 500 euro bill almost 6 times more valuable than its weight in gold. this is why criminals loved the banknote and a kind of stigma persists around it
It's still going on in Ibiza. I've spent a year officially investigating this. They are splitting up the gypsy community by offering bottom dollar prices for their homes in the old town. They offer new substandard housing in various places around the island . I lived amongst these gypsies for quite a while. The company concerned is Dutch, with connections with the Ann Frank scenario. The Govt is absolutely involved. it's the new form of ethnic cleansing. Ibiza wants to become a Monaco. I'm telling you this because I have the big C and I'm tired of the corruption. I have so much evidence you wouldn't believe. Anyway, a great vid and a sound mind. Thank you .
Where would you bury stolen treasure? Under your cellar, somewhere in your garden or etc. Some place, close by, that with a normal inspection, wouldn’t be found, but easily identifiable to yourself. Most treasures will be one or two suitcases (…or crates…) and that’s the sort of places I’d be looking. But I’m waaaaayyy too lazy. Another wine, please!
The book self financing genocide - kadar and vagi - describes the hungarian gold train very accurately. But Simon your researcher missed a great side story - yes some of the crates of gold were buried in a tyrolian village as one of Toldy's lorries broke down on the way to Switzerland. The locals witnessed this and dug it up. But instead of sitting on their newly found wealth they went to the city spending it and buying new cars, which led to questions from the occupying forces and most of them being taken to court and having to return what they found. Though not everything did get returned and there is still rumoured to be a crate buried outside of one of tyrols major ski resorts and questions to how some new hotels were funded at the time.
There is a mountain bunker that is known to have several miles of tunnels sealed off. The Nazis left stuff and back filled it. Nobody knows what’s there but they have the whole tunnel system mapped out. There’s even evidence of burnt plans and documents in the toilets that still remain today. The sealed tunnels aren’t flooded or anything . They are just impossible to get into without serious heavy machinery to remove backfill and structural reinforcement to the roof which is essentially thousands of tons of mountain . Now maybe not treasure in there but they certainly hid something in there which sits there still today.
Dang it! Where is the Double Like button? The video had already earned a 'Like' but then Simon raised it to a higher level with the Indiana Jones quote at the end. 🙂
The name of Projekt Riese (mentioned on 27:20 - 27:42), is derived from the German word (Riese) for giant. Which almost sounds like Reese's (the peanut butter candy cups). Make the ending apostrophe-s silent and add a little extra emphasis on the now ending 'uh', although the major emphasis in the word is on the 'ee' part..
I would say the implication of those two SS officers being charged for the death of the diver is that it *wasn't* a diving accident. This is further supported by how long they waited to report the disappearance. At a minimum they were negligent in reporting his accident. At the most, they killed him (maybe after he found whatever they had him searching for?), dumped the body back into the lake, and reported him missing after cleaning up all the evidence.
Just found out that pound for pound cash is actually more valuable than gold with a 100$ bill weighing 1 gram and being worth well 100$ and 1 gram of gold being wprth at the current price 83$ but gold is much denser so taking 83K worth of cash while being lighter than 83K of gold cash would take more space So if you ever want to flee to Argentina after a failed war take gold
The Nazi gold train in Poland. They claim that the train was driven into a tunnel, and then the tunnel collapsed. There would be suspicious train tracks coming out of either end of this mountain. It would have been found by now, if that is the case.
My wife is Swiss. Every time we go into her mother's basement or her father's storage unit I ask if this is where the Nazi gold is hidden. She never finds it funny, but I never stop finding it amusing.
"Nah, it's just a rock formation looling like a train". Sounds like they just trying to dismiss it so they can go after it themselves. Holy fk everyone just out to try and steal this shit. Greed corrupts. Absolute cancer.
Why hasn't DTO posted to RUclips Music in several months? I usually listen in the car and having to have my phone on with a video playing really drains my battery fast
Agreed. I just sold my Speedy 35 kislux (I did keep the brown one), my Sofia Coppola perforated LV clutch, my blue Damier clutch I bought in Japan, and the By the Pool vanilla clutch. Kept an orange epi Alma. It feels great!!
The german paper magazine that examined the Toplitzsee is called the SterN (meaning star) - the very same that fell for the infamous Hitler diaries hoax in 1983.
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Skin care is the perfect transition from talking about pulling Jewish teeth to melt down the gold. Gotta keep your skin nice and Aryan looking 😂😂
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They sent all the gold to da Fiji Tongan Dentists boss...
Can you not just put your favorite lotion in a pot of warm water?
Make a video about Ukrainian Bandera
The gold is in Simons basement and it funds his 390 RUclips channels
🤣🤣🤣🤣 For real though!
*3900
Simon is a.i. he was never real. No human can work as fast as him
389.. myself and another member fund Brain Blaze 😅
@turtleboy4111 you fund about half of his channels with how much money you give.
Decoding the unknown: what happened to all that Nazi Gold?
Switzerland: yes, yes what did happen with all of that.. gold? Why am I sweating? No reason.
You know, that unfortunate boating accident, no idea what happened. Where did it happen? We don’t know, the records of that were lost in a fire. What burned? Not sure, those records were lost in an earthquake. What quake? We don’t know, my dog ate the paperwork.
Federal reserve has a shitload as well.
@@biglollolThey also have a lot of cheese.
Swiss kept this secret long after the war. They weren’t “neutral”. They were Nzi bankers
@@biglollol yep, USA took a lot, so did Russia
It's being used to discover how one bald British man can be in 500 different RUclips channels almost simultaneously.
Quantum physics
Practice over the years
conclusion of the double slit experiment, personified
The real Simon retired to an island a decade ago, this is clone no 72.
Hes a paid actor
To put a damper on treasure finding: If you find Gold in your garden in Germany, it is automatically the gouvernments. No finders fee is given. No excavation expenses are paid back.
If you find an explosive reminder of the second biggie, you are expected to pay for the disarming.
Why would I want to report any of the two findings again?
A Nazi stamp on a gold bar is nothing that a blowtorch can't fix. They also work on Nazis. And BLM Rioters.
How do they charge you for disarming? Whats the hourly rate? Do they account how much it costs to train the specialist or its just their salary? Super curious.
@@alperenozturk9235 I haven't had the pleasure yet, but you pay - to some extent - the police evacuating and securing the area, the specialists and the disposal of the explosive material itself. It's not a flat rate as far as I've heard about it. But it can easily amount north of 50.000 Euros. That's also why it's important when buying property in Germany to get a document certifying that there are no recorded duds dropped there. They do have records at the local gouvernment offices of some of them.
As I said, you don't want to be the one digging it up.
@alperenozturk9235 those are great questions. Lol
@@migga86 Uff really big inconvenience, I believe government should pay it period. Since you already paying for all the services lol.
Dear Simon and Team. The Amber room would be great to cover. Honestly it could even work in megaprojects.
They've covered it on this channel. If you look at videos sort by oldest and scroll up. It's not far
The Generals who saw the writing on the wall in 1944 shipped the gold, and their families, to Argentina. Its gone.
And the Prescott family primogenitor for the bush family and founder of the CIA laundered it for them, elevating the family to political power yup
Round 3 I wrote a new script for the whistleverse and emailed Simon again. I'm desperately trying to infiltrate the basement. I won't stop until I'm in.
Keep at it bud
Im subbed to every channel he presents for. I look forward too seeing your name by the writers credit one day.
Good luck!
Hope it's a good one, I'll listen for your name
Good luck partner!
Honestly I suspect that if you really wanted to find a large chunk of the missing treasures all you would need to do is take a close look at some of the very wealthy families that were around at that time.
My mother was at a conference in France several years ago and met a new teacher from a very prestigious private school in Europe that a lot of old money wealthy families set their kids too. This teacher recounted something that had happened earlier that year where she had been talking about some of the lost art that disappeared during WW2, and one of her students spoke up when one of the pictures of one of the lost peices was on the screen and basically said "oh that one isnt missing, it's hanging in our house" essentially. The teacher mentioned this to the superintendent who basically told her, yeah we know that kinda stuff happens a lot around here, best thing to do is keep your mouth shut.
Lol. 😂 So it ended up nicely custodied.
*ahem the jews *ahem the jews. Do you really think Hitler committed the halocaust when it's a Jewish word and they committed three pre ww2?
Much of the gold was looted from the Native peoples of the Americas' taken by European explorers.
"Kelly's Heroes"
'nuff said.
More true then not
Love this one. Simon is aging so well. Dude looks like a stone cold fox. A hairless fox would be cold...
Fender bender
Wtf?!
He looks like ben kingsley but younger and with a beard.
@@anthonydelange4128 that's Sir Ben Kingsley to you.
U gay or sum dawg lmao
I'm admittedly a big fan of the show Expedition Unknown, and it's always fun when this show covers a topic they've done. It's pretty realistic so far as those sorts of shows go (he basically admits that the thrill is in the hunt and a large portion of it it probably nonsense), but being made for TV they kinda hype the legend up a little.
I'm a pretty solidly skeptical dude, like the word "believe" doesn't really register much in my worldview, but I've always enjoyed Josh Gates' shows. Especially Expedition Unknown. He's a charismatic dude, always respectful to locals, and they go to some really cool places and tell some very entertaining stories. It's like my one "pseudoscience" guilty pleasure .
@@semaj_5022 absolutely. The guy oozes charisma and IS at least a professionally trained archaeologist, unlike the majority of those grifters on shows. And either his personal charisma or OUTSTANDING production team gets him into all kinds of places that the other people can't even get into. And I figure half the reason he "buys into" legends is because it gets him access to people like the Polish dudes mentioned in this very video, and how he got permission to dive in iirc that exact same lake. Absolute champ for any of us history fans who can't shake the love of Indiana Jones and shit.
@@BruceBoyde That's what it is! He gives me strong Indiana Jones vibes! Thanks for helping me figure out part of what I like so much about him and his work. Yeah they've been allowed into some astonishing places. Even if they are, you know, searching for ghosts in Petra or something, it's still awesome getting to see some of these places from as up close as their team is often able to get.
Expedition unknown mentioned!. Hell yeah Bois
2:20 - Mid roll ads
3:20 - Back to the video
4:15 - Chapter 1 - The biggest robbery in History
8:35 - Chapter 2 - The origin story
13:55 - Chapter 3 - Merker's mine
19:35 - Chapter 4 - The hungarian gold train
24:05 - Chapter 5 - Time for a treasure hunt
24:25 - Chapter 6 - Lower silesia & the polish gold train
32:30 - Chapter 7 - The michaelis diary
35:50 - Chapter 8 - Treasure in a dutch town
39:25 - Chapter 9 - Lake toplitz
49:00 - Chapter 10 - At the bottom of the deep blue sea
54:35 - Chapter 11 - Argentina
58:40 - Chapter 12 - The real kelly's heroes
1:02:40 - Chapter 13 - March impromptu
1:04:30 - Chapter 14 - And many other places
1:06:45 - Conclusion
Saying nazi first sentence in. So much for monetization
Plus the holocaust wiki links and article. Not great for monetization I’m sure
Built-in ad read makes mockery of the pittance he'd get from Adsense
Yeah the bankers figured that out too look at the history channel lol
Who owned the swiss bank lol
In an interesting turn of events…. An early piece by Monet was returned to the descendants of the rightful owners in New Orleans, Louisiana. The piece was stolen by the Nazis and was thought lost for 80 years. The piece was returned today by the FBI. The piece Bord de Mer was painted in 1865, and was abandoned when the owners fled Austria in 1938. The painting was confiscated and sold by the Nazis. Ironic that I just watched this episode 2 days ago and this story hits the news.
My great-grandfather was a dentist in Austria(?) and when he was in the concentration camps, they made him pull the gold fillings from the bodies of his friends and fellow victims. The Nazis didn't even have to take it from someone they murdered. They made the other prisoners do it. I can't even find the right adjective for how horrible and cruel this is.
Not quite as cruel as current Israelis.😢
History is not about what people did, it's about what people do.
@@dane3038 history is exactly what people did. What version of English do you speak?
False jewish claims
I hate to break it to you, but he was a Kapo, hated by his fellow Jews.
90 tons of gold in 1939 would have been just over $100million dollars at the time. Which with inflation over the years would equate to about $3Billion in today's currency
Only in one deposit was 9 b in gold and 7 b in currency and USA stole it just like usualy
Switzerland.... what happened tonall the gold?
Switzerland: whats a gold? *arms every citizen*
My Grandfather [I’m 78] had opened a Swiss account in the 1920's.
All my side of the Family died during WWII.
I had the Bank name AND account number. I went to the Bank in Bern and asked for access to my account. After a runaround at the bank, THEY CALLED THE POLICE.
I'm still pursuing this after 50 years.
😱😱😱
That's sooooo fucked up
There are ways you could go about this. The key word is public pressure. But if you're not a swiss citizen its gonna be difficult
@@souhung69But I am...
Its not your account though.
The gold was brought to the Rothschild's Federal Reserve EXTORTION Center, courtesy of Operations Paperclip. The CIA is a nasty, vile organization, worse than the NAZI.
Although Switzerland is by no means innocent in this whole affair, I'd like to add the following caveats:
1) Switzerland wasn't rich before, during, and right after WWII. As a nation without natural resources (besides water and pebbles, lol), the banking sector was one of the few sectors of the economy that was viable and stable, thanks to our neutrality and the "banking secret". There were fears that just "nilly-willy" handing back the accounts to whoever showed up and claimed to be so-and-so's relative would severely hamper any future banking dealings as who would trust a bank that just handed it your money to someone else? Especially since at the time, there were also concerns that the actual owners of these accounts were in fact still alive and could technically still show up and demand their money (which would be gone if the bank has just handed it out to someone with the last name and therefore the bank would have been liable etc etc). So the banks clammed up, which was neither delicate nor morally very good, but also somewhat understandable (kind of like the idea that it's better to have 10 criminals go free than for 1 innocent man to be imprisoned). Part of the banking success back then was the no prying questions asked so when a German national would show up after the war, with their proper paperwork to their accounts, the bankers would hand out the money, and I assure you, the likelihood of an SS officer doing this in uniform was rather low. They were a business after all and had their own contracts to honour. I really wish that things had been handled better back then but sadly, it is what it is.
Also nowadays, you cannot just show up with money of unclear origin and set up an anonymous account etc. That banking secret is gone 😂
2) Switzerland was at times, entirely surrounded by the 3rd Reich and Italy. Although Hitler never attacked, this wasn't a very pleasant situation, with the Swiss population being kept basically hostage. Swiss authorities had to find a balance between neutrality and you know, angering the mustache guy with the big army. The plan of action in case he attacked was to abandon everything, cities, population, land, you name it, to retreat the army (not the civilians!) to the mountains and make it so costly to conquer, that the 3rd Reich would reconsider any plans. Had they attacked, the swiss army wouldn't really have defended their country and instead more like just avenged it, essentially. Giving Hitler just enough cooperation to keep him from realising those war plans was crucial in survival since the allies would have had no way of you know, helping, if Switzerland had actually antagonized the 3rd Reich enough to be attacked. It was not the morally pure stance of the later victors of WWII, it was just dogged survival. So picture all this ... Just for Switzerland to be outright accused of being Nazi sympathiser and collaborators after the war. No wonder the authorities clammed up and weren't exactly forthcoming with forcing the banks to cooperate with restitution efforts.
All in all, Switzerland was not exactly a clean sheet but also shouldn't be vilified over much, just putting it out there
If don’t give out the money the bank gets the Intrest and after some years can claim the money as abandoned
As a British guy with German ancestors I'd advise accepting the criticism as totally valid. Everyone's country has done plenty of bad stuff and whilst I don't think anyone should pay for the sins of their fathers it is annoying and offensive when people deny history and try to make excuses for the past.
There's a lot of examples of the Swiss being less than neutral throughout WW2.
In the off chance that nobody else has already answered the question, yes, bearer bonds are real, although they haven’t been widely used (or even legal, at least in the US) for a few decades. However, I think that any bonds issued prior to a certain date (late 1970s- early 1980s, don’t quote me on the dates though) would still be considered “valid” (provided the entity that issued the bond(s) still exists and has the liquidity to “pay out” the bond’s stated value).
1982. The US Treasury reports that there's still $87 million in bonds that haven't been redeemed.
Nice, thanks for clarifying! I was close though and that’s gotta count for something lol
@@jacksonbauer5199 Sure thing. So when are we going hunting for that $87m? I'm free on Tuesday.
I’m free 24/7 of late, suffered an accident and I have multiple herniated discs and a few fractured vertebrae. Since you’ll have to do most of the leg work, why don’t we split it 80/20 in your favor?
@@jacksonbauer5199oof, sorry about your injuries. You won't be able to participate in the heist, but every crew needs a man in the chair. I do hope you heal up soon friend.
I like trying to catch Simon in the same outfit that he has on in another RUclips channel lol. He works so much during a day reading these.
To be fair to the manslaughter charges, if you're a former SS officer and anything you do recreationally ends with a body. There is enough reasonable suspicion to charge you.
I just checked. Spot price of gold today is $85583.38 per kilogram.
Yeah I was right in yelling out “it’s a metric fuck ton” 🤣 Thats alot of 💰!
Which puts the value of 90 metric tons (the amount taken from the bank in Vienna at the start of the Second World War) at $7.7 trillion. Mind-blowing.
The music thing was a plot from a Sherlock Holmes movie during the war staring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The message was hidden in the slight differences in the notes in five music boxes. He used his violin to figure out which notes and deciphered the message.
22 seconds in and the ad revenue is already gone. 😬
It is ridiculously easy to find natzi parafernalia in flee markets and second hand stores in Argentina
11:42 happened to my family my great great grandfather was very wealthy he deposited the money in the Swiss bank, but he and my great great grandmother were murdered during the Holocaust at Bergen-Belsen my grandfather and his family were never able to recover the money they from the Swiss banks and we were not one of those families that were paid back.
Justice.
As far as I know, the Merkers Mine is in Thuringia (Thueringen) in Germany, and can be visited touristically. I had planned to go there for a trip some years back, but it never materialised.
Thats right! I went there as a pupil back in the days. Now i plan to go there together with my kids. April 2025 :)
I wish they would add links to the episodes he references in these videos. He has too many channels to go hunting through them all trying to find the ones he mentions.
Completely agree. I think this is one of them. Secret Nazi Bunkers: ruclips.net/video/Yd8CO0Z5iEY/видео.htmlsi=_aT0QipD2MbsmDSh
Let me suggest Decoding the unknown bingo cards.
Items would include things like:
Nazis, illuminati, Freemasons, aliens, ghosts, kaijū, psychic, ..... Etc ....
What other items do we include ?
( Need between 24 & 75 items )
Instead of B.I.N.G.O. it could be S.I.M.O.N.
Don't forget the catch phrases, like
"big brain"
- Curses
- Government cover ups
- Bunkers or tunnels
War, conspiracy, drugs, assassination, invasion
Book deal
The oak Island Treasure is real. It's in the bank account of the guy that rents all the heavy equipment to treasure hunters .
Good thing you got the ad in quick because after 8 minutes I was tired of watching someone try and read a report and fail I guess this is a good reminder as to why I stopped watching this channel but you keep making new ones to try and trick me
the submarines went to Antarctica because there is the mythical neuschwabland, which is very close to the northern entry point of the hollow earth, where the arians fight lizardpeople, freemasons and the spanish inquisition! think factboy, think!
1:08:07 unsure if Ilze is British or not, but to have a British guy say objects of value to a group of people “belongs in a museum” felt pretty bold of a take
I think it's another Indiana Jones reference
@@jakepeacock752 yeah I think you’re right it was just funny to me contextually. But you’re right that was probably the point.
So I'm financially poor at about $50k before taxes. Not dirt poor but poor. A 1/4oz Gold Coin at about $600 is a major thing for me and owning just a few is very exciting for me. Just 1/4oz. A friend inherited a pre-33 American Double Eagle and we had a revel party to show it off. And TONS of the stuff just got lost?! Yeah, that tracks.
The graphics, animation and archival footage are great!!! Where do you get it all from? What editing software do you use???
Only the US has a higher gold reserve than Germany. Ironically Italy has the 3rd highest gold reserve.
Not anymore
@@tomhenry897 what I said is true. With the caveat of publicly released numbers.
Simon, if you read this, please watch Kelly's Heroes. If you like Three Kings you'll definitely like it.
This episode had me thinking about American Renegades
It's a pretty great movie. I'm glad someone else mentioned it in the comments. It's been years since I've watched it and need to again.
The bearer bond is like having the million pound note if you've seen that film just means your good for it.
This entire episode remind me of Kelly's heroes.
I'm gonna guess most of it is in Switzerland, some is in Argentina, and the rest is probably in a combination of The United States, Former Soviet Union, and modern day Isreal.
you forgot the Vatican city
....probably landed in some soldiers bags.
@@jameskelly7782"how did our family get so rich grandpa?"
"well dear grandson, when i was a part of the transportation corps back in 45, i did so well fighting the Germans that i was paid a huge bonus while cataloguing all those German bunkers"
There’s lots in Argentina. Wasn’t it recently (like just before Covid) they found a small horde with a staff marked with the Nazi Eagle and Swastika? Argentina has to be hiding plenty.
Yeah, almost every family has some "memento", that grandpa brought home from the war. Aka robbed from ppl, who were already destitute, whether directly or indirectly by taking "mementos" home instead of having them returning to the rightful owners.
Anything, thats not like a Luger pistol taken off a Nazi officer, is stolen either directly from victims or stolen by Nazis and then re-stolen by selfglorifying "liberators". Plenty of stories here in Europe about these "liberators", who went across the continent like locusts, expecting not only the fawning gratitude of the locals, but also to be given free rein to take whichever "memento" they fancied. And yes, Americans, Im looking at u. It wasnt just the Soviets, who stole on a government scale. American soldiers were notorious for collecting their "mementos", that their grandchildren and greatgrandchildren now brag about.
To be fair to Switzerland, they were surrounded by the axis, and refusing to do banking with them while still maintaining the accounts of the allies would have been unnecessarily antagonistic, violate their neutrality principles, and possibly led to an invasion. They were powerful enough to be a tough nut to crack, and it’s doubtful that the germans could have ever forced their way into taking over the whole country, but Hitler didn’t exactly have a reputation for only declaring wars he could win.
Fact Boi 🙋♀️ I have a question. Did your background light go the way of the SW neon sign? If so, it's as lost to us as the Nazi hoard 😞
27:40 bruh why was i scrolling through your other videos and read project riese as you said it in this video 😭 what’s the odds of that
A large part of the gold (or maybe all of it) was moved, towards the end of the war to a salt mine in Germany, known as Merkers for safe keeping, along with art and other valuables, where it was then stolen by the US. That's why the mine is still full of trucks the Americans used to transport everything from the mine, the Americans took everything of value and left the trucks. I worked as a German cave tour guide in Slovenia and i spoke with an older German man from that area. As far as i know it's no secret at all, atleast not to the people from that part of Germany.
you’re literally my comfort person i love you kislux !
Kelly's Heroes. 16 million behind enemy lines. Good movie 🎬
How does one acquire blue comment on YT?
"She's lucky she didn't get shot" Had me lolz
About that unexploded ordnance found by a construction crew. Was that in 2000? Near the old Financial Times building? I was working in that building at the time. It was wild.
Man, I miss the OG History Channel😢
og history channel, og discovery channel, og animal planet, even og tlc - gone, reduced to the lowest common denominator
Can y'all make an episode on Havana syndrome? I learned about it recently and it's keeping me up at night. Please decode that for me so I can keep my sanity
They've already done that.
@@HikuroMishiro oh word? What channel?
@@u-crm114 It was on this channel and they debunked it as a myth. However they have pulled the video down now. Since Simon gets more from AIPAC than RUclips these days he'll probably do another one where he blames it on Russia.
Idk if you found it yet, but it's on his channel called Warfronts
2:13 just fyi in 500 euro bills 1 million is aproximately 2 kilos which makes the 500 euro bill almost 6 times more valuable than its weight in gold. this is why criminals loved the banknote and a kind of stigma persists around it
Kelly's Heroes got it dude.
It's still going on in Ibiza. I've spent a year officially investigating this. They are splitting up the gypsy community by offering bottom dollar prices for their homes in the old town. They offer new substandard housing in various places around the island .
I lived amongst these gypsies for quite a while.
The company concerned is Dutch, with connections with the Ann Frank scenario.
The Govt is absolutely involved. it's the new form of ethnic cleansing.
Ibiza wants to become a Monaco.
I'm telling you this because I have the big C and I'm tired of the corruption.
I have so much evidence you wouldn't believe.
Anyway, a great vid and a sound mind.
Thank you .
"What'd you do?" "I made a deal with him." "What kind of a deal?" "Y'know...a *deal* deal...."
Where would you bury stolen treasure?
Under your cellar, somewhere in your garden or etc.
Some place, close by, that with a normal inspection, wouldn’t be found, but easily identifiable to yourself.
Most treasures will be one or two suitcases (…or crates…) and that’s the sort of places I’d be looking.
But I’m waaaaayyy too lazy. Another wine, please!
The book self financing genocide - kadar and vagi - describes the hungarian gold train very accurately. But Simon your researcher missed a great side story - yes some of the crates of gold were buried in a tyrolian village as one of Toldy's lorries broke down on the way to Switzerland. The locals witnessed this and dug it up. But instead of sitting on their newly found wealth they went to the city spending it and buying new cars, which led to questions from the occupying forces and most of them being taken to court and having to return what they found. Though not everything did get returned and there is still rumoured to be a crate buried outside of one of tyrols major ski resorts and questions to how some new hotels were funded at the time.
There is a mountain bunker that is known to have several miles of tunnels sealed off. The Nazis left stuff and back filled it. Nobody knows what’s there but they have the whole tunnel system mapped out. There’s even evidence of burnt plans and documents in the toilets that still remain today. The sealed tunnels aren’t flooded or anything . They are just impossible to get into without serious heavy machinery to remove backfill and structural reinforcement to the roof which is essentially thousands of tons of mountain .
Now maybe not treasure in there but they certainly hid something in there which sits there still today.
Remains my fave channel on RUclips
Dang it! Where is the Double Like button? The video had already earned a 'Like' but then Simon raised it to a higher level with the Indiana Jones quote at the end. 🙂
You have the Japanese gold in the Philippines too. Some has been found, but nowhere near all of it.
Not a movie Simon. I'm pretty sure we're both thinking of Father Ted's Nazi episode.
Laundered through Switzerland, taken to South America , and some stayed in Poland where there are rich that hold it and also there are fields of gold.
90 metric tons of gold is roughly 7.68 trillion dollars
In an alternate timeline a guy called Simon RUclipsr is known for being a viral whistler
bro the screenshot of dark and darker marvelous chest was great
The name of Projekt Riese (mentioned on 27:20 - 27:42), is derived from the German word (Riese) for giant. Which almost sounds like Reese's (the peanut butter candy cups). Make the ending apostrophe-s silent and add a little extra emphasis on the now ending 'uh', although the major emphasis in the word is on the 'ee' part..
The Polish gold reserves were actually sent to Romania when the war started, it all stayed safe and well hidden in some caves until returned.
It's real! . My history professor Dr. JONES TOLD ME SO!
Assuming the sponsor for the vid helped with his melted face?
@1Thomkro oh no no no. He got help from this weeks sponsor BetterHelp!
it belongs in a museum!
@@Tomberculosis-q1i fair 😀
"it belongs in a museum!" he exclaimed, and then traded said ancient relic with the Chinese mafia!
Fun Fact, all of The Red Barron's trophy cups from his museum were stolen by the Red Army and never recovered
I would say the implication of those two SS officers being charged for the death of the diver is that it *wasn't* a diving accident. This is further supported by how long they waited to report the disappearance. At a minimum they were negligent in reporting his accident. At the most, they killed him (maybe after he found whatever they had him searching for?), dumped the body back into the lake, and reported him missing after cleaning up all the evidence.
Thank you as always, Simon
Didn't some of the stolen artwork end up in high-ranking US and British officials' offices after the war?
Just found out that pound for pound cash is actually more valuable than gold with a 100$ bill weighing 1 gram and being worth well 100$ and 1 gram of gold being wprth at the current price 83$ but gold is much denser so taking 83K worth of cash while being lighter than 83K of gold cash would take more space
So if you ever want to flee to Argentina after a failed war take gold
This is definitely one of your better episodes.
Can you do a Decoding the Unknown about Simon Whistler? I love the channels and videos but what is behind the enigma?
I'm pretty sure there is a George Clooney movie also about that exact loot mine. The Monuments Men it's called.
The Nazi gold train in Poland. They claim that the train was driven into a tunnel, and then the tunnel collapsed. There would be suspicious train tracks coming out of either end of this mountain. It would have been found by now, if that is the case.
Went to Sweden
The gold is in the basement of the second gunman from the grassy knoll, who married Princess Anastasia.
My wife is Swiss. Every time we go into her mother's basement or her father's storage unit I ask if this is where the Nazi gold is hidden. She never finds it funny, but I never stop finding it amusing.
This could be out of phantom comic story from the "treasure room"
Not me over here, a Percy Jackson and Greek mythology enthusiast, gasping at the pronunciation attempt of Hephaestus.
27:06 anyone notice Simon holding back a yawn 🥱 😅
Running 312 youtube channels will do that to a man!
"Nah, it's just a rock formation looling like a train".
Sounds like they just trying to dismiss it so they can go after it themselves.
Holy fk everyone just out to try and steal this shit. Greed corrupts. Absolute cancer.
Most of it was laundered through Switzerland.
@47:38 Simon ranting about hiding found treasure from the authorities, forgetting that he just said the police were watching.
Simon is looking like he's been working out 💪
It doesnt take deprivity.. just takes not seeing them as human
I just realised, it got sent to the London national history museum. Train and all, they just misplaced it during a tidy up 😂
If its real why would anyone say when they found it?? You're supposed to just keep it a secret and sell it off bit by bit so you don't have to share
Why hasn't DTO posted to RUclips Music in several months? I usually listen in the car and having to have my phone on with a video playing really drains my battery fast
Agreed. I just sold my Speedy 35 kislux (I did keep the brown one), my Sofia Coppola perforated LV clutch, my blue Damier clutch I bought in Japan, and the By the Pool vanilla clutch. Kept an orange epi Alma. It feels great!!
4 handymens start renovation a old house and found 13 kilo gold at inside walls...no history where that gold came from first place..
The german paper magazine that examined the Toplitzsee is called the SterN (meaning star) - the very same that fell for the infamous Hitler diaries hoax in 1983.
It’s in Cleveland, Ohio😂
Good BBC comedy series called "Private Schulz" about Operation Bernard printing the pounds
Vsauce Micheal, is that you? 😂
The hidden story of gold is the hidden story of history.
11:16 Bearer Bonds are still issued in some countries.