Cheeky treasure hunters looking for Nazi treasure in the Netherlands, even on private property: “Are really angry about that” | Abroad
The Dutch police received a special assignment this weekend to send away treasure hunters and hunters with detectors from the area around the Den Eng estate in Ommeren. It was already a number of times yesterday, Ommeren has become a number of pits richer in the last 24 hours. Random treasure hunters are looking for a Nazi treasure.
Eric Wijnacker
Latest update:
07:06
Source:
AD.nl
At the end of World War II, a treasure was said to have been buried by German soldiers near the Dutch village of Ommeren, in the province of Gelderland. According to tradition, the Germans buried jewellery, precious stones, gold watches and coins in community boxes after they were found in the city of Arnhem. The core entities had been blown out of their vault in an Arnhem bank by the violence of the war.
Treasure map
This week, a real treasure map was found in the National Archives of the Netherlands, where the location of the infamous Nazi treasure is indicated with a cross. The treasure map was immediately covered in the media en masse, resulting in a lot of gold fever among our northern neighbours.
“Dangerous”
The municipality of Buren, of which Ommeren confirms part, felt compelled to do so on Friday treasure hunters: “Experts point out that the area is close to the World War II frontline. Searching there is dangerous because of possible unexploded bombs, landmines or grenades. We therefore advise against searching for the Nazi treasure.”
It is also “prohibited to use or have with you a metal detector or any other object for detecting metal objects in public without permission from the mayor and aldermen,” the municipality wrote.
Dig, cut and cut again
Despite the warning yesterday, patrolling police officers saw (young) men who were busy digging a hole at every tree they encountered on the Hogestraat in the village, looking for the destruction of German Nazi treasure.
And strangers have been even more brutal in a cherry orchard belonging to the Van Dee family next to Huize Den Eng. They dug some pits there on private property, more than a meter deep, and then left it all alone.
You have to be brave enough to dig on private property
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