Nazi Sub Yields Wagner Records but No Treasure
Danish salvagers who raised a Nazi submarine from the seabed three months ago said they had found liquor, condoms, Wagner records and stacks of documents--but not a rumored gold treasure.
“The most exciting finds from a historic point of view have been 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of documents. So many documents were destroyed by the Germans at the end of the war,” Per Kluever, a researcher and historian on the project, said Friday.
The U-534 submarine, sunk by a British bomber May 5, 1945, as it tried to slip away from the advancing Allied forces, was raised in the Kattegat waterway off the Danish island of Anholt in August.
The rumors of sunken treasure arose because the submarine belonged to the German 33rd Flotilla, whose main task was to transport valuable cargo to Japan, Germany’s ally.
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