Dutch journalist offers € 25.000 reward

Barely six months after German violist Stefan Krah famously cracked a Nazi code that had eluded even the best cryptographers, a new challenge now holds the Netherlands in its grip. This time it is a coded document allegedly drafted by Hitler’s secretary Martin Bormann.

While in April 1945 the Russians fought their way ferociously through Berlin, the Nazi’s hastily transported a stash of gold and Hitler’s personal diamonds to a secret location. The cargo was meant to finance the operations of the guerrilla movement Werwolf. During the final hours of the battle Hitler’s secretary, Martin Bormann, handed a coded document to an army chaplain and ordered him to take it to party-treasurer Schwarz in Munich. The document apparently revealed the location of the gold and diamonds. However, Schwarz had already been arrested by the allied forces and Bormann did not survive the Russian assault.

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PS oops should have been posted in conspiracies

Beasjt´s number is 669 - 16 January 2008 04:22 AM

PS oops should have been posted in conspiracies

Moved.

The guy is offering 25,000 euros?  I’m thinking that whoever manages to decode the thing will be looking for the treasure themselves.

The offer is actually for the book- and movie-rights to the story of the treasure recovery. The guy in question is a journalist/bookwriter. And he already did look himself in teh area the code would indicate. But apparently, it is not really a matter of “go there and pick it up”.

No, a journalist/bookwriter would never make a nazi-treasure-hunting story up in a million years…

“D*&*! That wasn’t supposed to come out ‘till next week....”

(...quietly shuts his folder of undecoded nazi treasure maps and lays it on the desk....)

Just imagine if some Jewish person cracks the code and uses the money to establish a Holocaust Memorial Museum. :D

ta-ta-ta-taa, ta-ta-ta...*cue Indiana Jones music*

want this for my birthday.