Nazi train with gold allegedly found in Poland

A 150-meter armored train went missing near the city of Breslau in East Germany, which is now a Polish city.

Tourists from Poland and abroad flock to the southwestern town of Walbrzych after Polish television showed two men claiming to have found a Nazi train loaded with gold. German Andreas Richter and Pole Petr Koper say they received underground radar images of a train believed to have been buried in the area when the Red Army launched an offensive during World War II.

Rumors that have been circulating since the Nazis hid the train in early 1945, the train contained up to 300 tons of gold, as well as diamonds and other precious stones.

But experts warn that the so-called "irrefutable evidence" of the existence of the train may be just a hoax. Hossein Tadeshki of the Mining Institute in Clausthal said the radar images presented by Richter and Koper are more like "cheap computer animation."

Defense Minister Tomasz Semoniak, a Walbrzych native, said military experts in chemical weapons and explosives made a first inspection of the site to determine whether a more thorough search should be carried out. Polish police patrol the woodland to contain the treasure hunter packs.