OMMEREN, Netherlands (AP) — A hand\u002Ddrawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a…
Wielding metal detectors, shovels and copies of the map on cellphones, prospectors have descended on Ommeren — population 715 — about 80 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam to try to dig up a potential World War II trove based on the drawing first published on Jan. 3.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
So far, nobody has reported finding anything. The treasure hunt began this year when the Dutch National Archive published — as it does every January — thousands of documents for historians to pore over.Article content Photos on social media in early January showed people digging holes more than a meter deep, sometimes on private property, in the hope of unearthing a fortune.
German soldiers stationed nearby “pocket what they can get and they keep it in ammunition boxes,” Waalkens said. As World War II nears its end in 1945, the Netherlands’ German occupiers were pushed back by Allied advances. The soldiers who had been in Arnhem found themselves in Ommeren and decided to bury the loot.Article content
After the unsuccesful attempts, the German soldier said “he believed that someone else has already excavated the treasure,” she added.Article content
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