In the last weeks of the Third Reich, the Nazi regime goes about hiding their immense riches in the Alps, but was this ‘Alpine Fortress’ an elaborate bluff or a serious plan for future Nazi resurgence? What happened to the hidden Nazi treasure? Was this home to a Nazi wonder weapon? We follow the trail of these old mysteries and uncover what happened in the turbulent last days of the Third Reich.
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00:00 Introduction
00:28 Alpine Fortress
05:10 HH Promo
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Great ‘socialists’ weren’t they, plundering & murdering others to enrich them selves, obviously God DOESN’T help those who help them selves, many though not all got their just deserts.
The Alpine Redoubt was a fantasy pushed by Eisenhower, and fed by faulty interpretation of intelligence reports. These are nothing more than war factories created five years too late, that often were never finished. If it did exist, somehow, then none of the top Nazis ever referred to it, or ever tried to occupy it.
That's crazy, melt that stuff down, those metal alloys are worth money.
We have to get this gold.
Tell Austria and Germany, too bad.
As long as we get the gold before London, I'm good.
Enlisted man interpreter at 38:38.
did those responsible for nuking entire japanese cities of innocent civilians ever brought to justice?
ot wasnt a secret it was hitlers “holiday home” it was well know by everyone involved in the war and once the allies got colse enough they took it
Am I tripping or is the narrator Willem Defoe?
Our Heavenly Father tested the whole world of Germany and they Germ any one and germ many people from potters of the clays with their germy 🍎👾s and them ger man in many ways every one wash the germs away.
China got the ones that glow👽🍎the green kind and slime , wash the ones that glow too.
Wow . I am an avid Historian. Never have I seen information like this re WW2 . Please also research the Italian POW in South Africa under Paul Kruger The British a sent them to South Africa during the war in North Africa ie Egypt. I believe we as South Africans treated them well. They have added so much value to our country and are very much integrated into our South African Famiglia. I believe they also need a voice and for the Italian community to be heard. I am proudly Afrikaans but was taught this great history oof mater builders, engineers and well FAmiglia from an early age .
They shoulda put him out with his fake money, the ss pig.
Good idea for a documentary entertaining, but, not realistic. Allies had the fight one, Germans and all other Axis troops were trying to surrender to the English and US troops.
The sell out pseudo historian Neitzel.
There is definetely still gold and treasures unaccounted for in those regions. Just the same as treasure is here from the carribean pirate days. It still turns up from time to time. And it may not be huge caches but there are probably even a couple of those still out there.
Edward Norton was Himmler 😂
Switzerland will deny it but adolf ran there actually got away
16:18 he didn't remember all that gold was previously concentrated by spanish army in south america … 😂
Maya's treasure was waaaaayyyyyyyy bigger for sure
The SS gold is long gone they came back for it after the war and it's long gone. Now the smaller caches are gold or still out there. Meaning regular soldiers had this crated gold or had that and then tell anybody about it. Maybe they were killed forgot about where it was after they retreat it. But most of that gold was reused to rebuild Germany. There's so many videos in the 60s and 70s of waffen SS soldiers coming together celebrating their reunions. And they are with the regular army and tank commanders. Are you telling me all these guys didn't know where the gold was sure they did.
Would anything recovered become the property of the national gov't. wherever its found?
I'm betting a lot of American officers skimmed a bit of gold off the top when stashes were found.Im also betting a few enlisted men were given a taste for their silence
what is former ss concentration camp comander doing diving and living free???!!! Can anyone explain me why he wasn't executed in Nuremberg trials?!
10 minutes of talk on a fortress, 40 minutes on lost treasures… typical history Channel
I’m sorry y’all but is it weird that the priest was only trying to save little Jewish boys?
Just drain the lake
Just to make a point; the allies killed more innocent civilians than the nazis, much more.
Shoulda woulda couda
Himler ! command your coffee !
That train they used to get in that bunker was no more than 5 or 6’ tall.
There is no way possible they got equipment large enough to build planes down there and even if they somehow did how would they have got the planes out of those bunkers? It’s not possible
Lol 2km inside a mountain building planes? Planes to go where? Not outside of the mountain that’s for sure. This is insanity, even if they built hundreds of planes none of them would have ever made it out. The tunnels they built weren’t big enough to transport planes
But most importantly… Americans stole the gold.
Di si pobiga trazimo te nazovi
The German historian was full of straw man arguments and credulity
All lies
Makes me ashamed to be a human being, after learing what my fellow human beings did at the concentration camps.I should have known about whar was going on there, and should have done something to stop it. But instead, I did nothing.
Hi ik ben Rik en ik spaar gloeilampen 😂
Zonder gekheid, interessante video weer!! 👍🏻
0:50 Alp!!! I need somebody!! 🎶🎶 Alp not just any body AaaaAlp!!🎶🎶
If they want the gold. Look in South America where they spent it all
Could you imagine how awful this drawn out documentary could have been with commercials
I'm afraid the Vatican has them beat by a million miles of stolen booty.
Why is that ss guard not in jail for life???
the farmers daughter talking about gold carried on horseback wearing a designer suit and scarf…. i wonder?!?!?!?
Maybe the Russians got ahold of the gold somehow .
Good old Werner Von B.
Hmmmmmm
I am so disappointed in the people who made this episode! There is far too much hyperbole and bending of facts in the first 6 minutes! First, the Nazis jet plane could only fly for exactly 7 minutes, not a very lethal weapon. The V rockets were meant to get across the English Channel, not for use against the Western Allies; they weren’t even used against the USSR! Next, Allen Dulles had been much more busy during the war realizing his ideas for an American secret service when he was the OSS contact in Switzerland, and manipulating information for his own purposes, so using his name here means less than nothing. And Otto Skorzeny was a self-promoting liar who hyped his “daring” rescue of Mussolini from the mountaintop, when the special group sent to get him met no resistance whatsoever. And Skorzeny wasn’t even a member of the team! He made a place for himself on the plane at the last minute. This episode is rubbish!
I met s brother and sister from Latvia back in 08' they said yhe Germans treated them better during occupation than the reds. Their parents couldn't find work after the war so moved to Germany to help rebuild, his father a carpenter/mother s semestres. He told me stories of German soldiers throwing medals and some uniforms into the woods trying to avoid being identified to avoid being a slave laborer
At least get someone who knows how to use a straight key and how to send properly. 😂😂