Austrian government licenses a hi-tech US treasure hunter in the hope of s

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Luke Harding in Berlin
Wednesday April 6, 2005
The Guardian

It has inspired numerous expeditions, several mysterious deaths and plenty of books. But 60 years after Nazi officers hid metal boxes in the depths of Lake Toplitz, a new attempt is being made to recover the Third Reich's fabled lost gold.
The Austrian government has given a US team permission to make an underwater expedition to the log-infested bottom of the lake.

Treasure hunters have been flocking to Lake Toplitz ever since a group of diehard Nazis retreated to this picturesque part of the Austrian Alps in the final months of the second world war.

With US troops closing in and Germany on the brink of collapse, they transported the boxes to the edge of the lake, first by military vehicle and then by horse-drawn wagon, and sunk them.

Nobody knows exactly what was inside. Some believe they contained gold looted by German troops throughout Europe and carried back to Germany. Others that they contain documents showing where assets confiscated from Jewish victims were hidden in Swiss bank accounts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/austria/article/0,2763,1452908,00.html

[spindoctor]

1. If a German sinks cases in a cold lake...

...my first guess would be that they contain beer.

[Liberty Belle]

2. Any of Poppy Bush's Nazi loot in that stash?