The Secret Nazi Fortress Hidden In The Alps | Last Secrets Of The 3rd Reich | War Stories

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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[@maximiliankolbe_NIN]

Can you just imagine the amount of “sticky fingers” after the war? How many servicemen, officers and even normal citizens ended up filthy rich at the end of the war? Or even very well off. There was friggen train loads of gold and cash in country after country. There’s NO way it was all kept track of!

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

Many items that 'sprouted legs & walked off' 😉 during the war. Have popped up all over the place over the years. It's still going on to this very day. A few years ago a valuable painting that was looted during the war was discovered. Hanging in the museum at the University of Utah. The man who donated after his death had 'acquired' it while he was serving in Germany. After a close inspection it was discovered that it was on the list of stolen property. Wanted by the Monuments Men commission, & it was eventually returned to its rightful owners.

[@dreadwaters7898]

I mean if you get shelled for 5 years and survive it you deserve a bit more then a medal and a parade when you get home.

[@eaglezxz3354]

How about the pallets of cash shipped to the middle east a few yrs ago?????..have heard stories about that .

[@justinthompson1757]

@@eaglezxz3354 gov’t paying there opium debts.

[@thesaints-7-andrew.]

@@dreadwaters7898 Best comment here.

[@chris.asi_romeo]

A good old mystery is perfect for midnight watching. 😯😯

[@BridgesDontFly]

@16:07🔍 Didn't know the Nazis had the new $100 bills back then. To say they were ahead of the times is an understatement.

[@died4us590]

I know right, and the guy in the submersible was looking for new species of worms. Why am i watching this.

[@gq2055]

They time traveled to get those franklins. Die Glocke

[@Dhitter]

The Nazis also used Jewish artists to make fake "pound notes". Several years ago a lake was inspected and a stash of "pound notes" was found.

[@bertplank8011]

Yes...the video is absolute garbage.Incidently Himmlers niece married an Israeli post war....and that's a fact.

[@drewburgess8097]

The lost SS gold most likely made its way to South America with the SS commanders who made it there

[@brandonlamontcooper8141]

it's possible. do you think the union will reunite again, or isn't it possible that we never lost contact with each other as a community? or brotherhood?

[@brandonlamontcooper8141]

@@OnlyWhemy thanks.. it sounds possible, see ya

[@brandonlamontcooper8141]

@@OnlyWhemy wait a moment.. who are they and who do you talk to about these topics? I know a good place to connect and grow?

[@bertplank8011]

Most likely ended in the hands of the architects of the war....the bankers.

[@terrybrown5402]

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.

[@boostfiend]

Pirate treasure is always tough. Because, Pirates.... don't use large enough chests. Always spilling over....

[@aaronkerr5993]

Lots of lost treasures including art, artifacts, jewels and more were found some years back in Texas. A soldier was mailing things to his family in Texas. But apparently he never sold any of it off, they recovered almost everything from his children.

[@CarlosSantos-bk4yl]

Excelente postagem, vídeo maravilhoso 👏🏻👊🏻✌🏻

[@man_in_red]

De verdade vive brasil

[@joepipito7431]

Always producing great videos Keep them coming 👍👍👍

[@davidmckayii752]

Incredible stories. Thanks for sharing.

[@mikeypiros6647]

ANOTHER GOOD ONE,THANX!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Most Wonderful Introducing of Informative & excellent Historical Documentary coverage by (War Stories) channel

[@timothyaschauer1993]

I recognize Strub Kaserne. I was stationed there for a year 02/81-01/82. Our community HQ building had a conference room in it which had a great carpet covering the floor. The eagle and swastika was built into the floor and had to be covered as it could not be structurally removed without causing great harm to the building. We did some bunker hunting. It was amazing.

[@jasonpopp2026]

i was stationed at Pioneer Kaserne

[@voornaam3191]

I was a Dutch soldier between Hamburg und Bremen. During large scale Nato excersizes, we were always told, men, we should be glad we can practice things we can't possibly do at home. Deutschland is a lot larger than the Netherlands. So, behave yourselves, please. When you know that even the Dutch had occupied a small part of Germany after WW2, though during the 80's that was pretty long ago, it is always good to know why I actually was a draft soldier in Germany. Think about that, why did those armies stay in Germany for so long? I believe the Americans have not even gone home today. No wonder Mr Putin is worried. The nuclear missiles, you know. Sure Putin is not exactly a saint, but do you see those conservative Russians do have a point? And I do not like a Second Cold War at all. No matter who is right or wrong, we all should stop the situation of super powers being afraid of each other. Build schools, not kasernes. Do you see why? Nobody really wants war!

[@voornaam3191]

In my home town, we got the problem of the national police school during WW2. These policemen were bloody fanatic and dangerous, if you had done something wrong. But still, a friend told me of an exception. People walking long distances, looking for some food, were supposed to be back at 8 in the evening. But there was a large German soldier, who was known to wave his hand: hurry, go home! He risked quite a bit, but my town knew, that one soldier would not report you to the police. Which is great. A friendly enemy soldier.

[@joeygarcia6783]

❤

[@liakayte7734]

@@voornaam3191 and NATO ! Why America made that organization after war? What reason and who leader and founds in 1945? Not Hitlers idea? He was next to Atlantic Ocean...

[@seymourwrasse3321]

the guy with the fake gold presented a valuable lesson, if you find gold, keep your mouth shut

[@jimburg621]

people find things and want to/have to brag about it, shhhhhhhhhhh, cash in and shut up aslready!

[@warpig7493]

Right! lol

[@jackjones9460]

Which is why no one heard what happened to the remaining gold. Why would anyone living know the location of immense wealth and not use it?

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

@@jackjones9460 & that’s what Swiss bank accounts are for hon. The Swiss (& a few other countries) are rather well known for their. We ask no questions & give out no information when asked banking systems.

[@loveofmangos001]

This is just me but if I was someone hiding gold with Germany falling down around me, I would have sealed it with rocks and dynamite and made sure it could not be found except by me, not just leave it at the bottom of a lake. The real treasure may be sealed away forever, those who knew its location took the secrets to their grave.

[@johnwright291]

A fascinating and very well made production.

[@MBSill]

Outstanding video! Love your channel!

[@voraciousreader3341]

If you had read any books about the war, you’d have been able to spot the errors and hyperbole as easily as I did. People should never think that they’re learning anything about any subject from documentaries….there are many errors and a great deal of hyperbole in this episode to a disappointing degree. But I know this bc I _have_ been reading about this war, for 35 years. I watch videos like this when I can stand to in order to see historic footage, but I was so disgusted that I had to stop watching before 7 minutes ticked over.

[@thomasel9171]

​@@voraciousreader3341that's the really frightening thing, our children are being educated by 10 second tiktok videos at worst, and this at best. History is gradually being rewritten in the minds of future "historians"

[@allgood6760]

Thanks mate 👍

[@wildcolonialman]

Fascinating.

[@1734-Jason]

The Vatican's probably got there grotty hand on most of the gold

[@haroldmclean3755]

The Southern Alps are Very Beautiful 👍

[@katherineguthrie1558]

Yes they are !!! My family lived there from 1974-1977.

[@Marlene-ou5ol]

Yes very beautiful. I made a lot of hiking there. Bayern, Bier und Berge! But I never understood how it could be feared as a fortress. No oil, no raw materials, nothing to produce weapons: just a convenient place to resist or to hide for a while in some remote Berghütten, without any mean to launch an offensive from there.

[@Administrator_O-5]

I believe it was a misunderstanding, a verbal typo if you will. They weren't talking about an "Alpine Redoubt", they were talking about the "Argentine Reroute"...

[@HonchHeado]

Of course Otto didn't fly to Spain with gold he put it in a Swiss bank.

[@noeld5292]

Scorcaze's funeral was creepy...modern day young people holding up their hands in the old salute in 1975...sad

[@ordmoore8120]

He was a true warrior tho,he trained the Israelis to .make his past go away

[@michaelmallal9101]

Maybe a painting by Botticelli or Vermeer would be sufficient?

[@jfrtbikgkdhjbeep9974]

This was well done, a very good, decent, docunentary. I was totally intrigued and captivated by this. ty

[@bravefastrabbit770]

Great piece of propaganda indeed

[@GerardVaughan-qe7ml]

How "us good guys" won. And 80 years later we are so happy !

[@my11badkids78]

Just think Tom Segura bought Hitlers teacup on the black market for over 20,000 dollars and gave it to Bert Kreischer for his birthday.

[@TopSecretVid]

Austria and Switzerland are beautiful places..

[@jackhammer7776]

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.

[@johnwright291]

I agree. No doubt a lot of gold was stashed away. But no one and I mean no one is going to forget about it and leave it. I think that its very highly unlikely that any went unclaimed.

[@chilIychilI]

75mil+ ppl met an early and sudden death in ww||. I'm sure some of them hid their wealth and it has not been discovered yet. The numbers are just to staggering. 75 million people... 🤷🏼‍♂️ You think we found every hiding spot? I definitely don't think so. We found money I hid as a kid on Easter like 15 yrs later. 😂

[@Chris-us6pk]

ChinaJoe's favorite ice cream flavor is redhead with freckles.

[@kyblue32]

Very cool

[@kenallen9082]

Can anyone imagine if Germany had been able to mass produce these weapons. The world as we know it would be completely different. Scary.

[@damianousley8833]

The Germans ended up on the scary end of that argument with thousands of tonnes of bombs falling on industrial centres and towns. Destroy a city, just 2 to 4 kilotonnes of conventional bombs from one thousand aircraft, and viola a smoldering ruin.

[@tomcruze7898]

Would it?

[@GerardVaughan-qe7ml]

He forgot to mention the "WMD's" but I guess in those days it was "wunder weapons".

[@Mr-Damage]

13:00 the Hordon was never going to fly as a stable platform without fly by wire computer inputs, ask Lockheed about that.

[@smtx2117]

Actually it did fly, the problem was it was only stable at a certain speed range. It was also a pain to steer (as is the case with flying wings) its only real purpose was a a bomber.

[@protipskiptoendofvideoandr286]

@@smtx2117 yup, still absolutely amazing. Took how many years before another flying wing would take to the skys?

[@ollihp]

That may b true about HORDON but the HORTEN 229 V3 certainly did just as allies were advancing & yankees got hold of it.

[@drmarkintexas-400]

🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏 Thank you for sharing

[@dipanwitadasgupta5221]

I heard on another very informative video that the Allies had made Germany pay twice - they too had made no attempt to try to return confiscated or seized illegally the valuable gold etc but quietly took it away but then they struck treaties for Germany making war reparations. So honestly speaking although both sides lost millions of lives in the end tally there were people of the same nature on both sides😮

[@BigMoney23223]

Imagine someone visiting his shop and seeing the “gold” behind cheap glass panels. In the states he’d be broken into every other night cause people wouldn’t know the story

[@serget2168]

If you like WW1 OR WW2 you will be amazed by Tino lost battlefield content the tunnels weapons and what why certain things are still hidden

[@bobbysenterprises3220]

Yep. All these heritage and protected areas & habitats seem to be inconvenient places. Must be they knew people wouldn't be able to search there.

[@brandonlamontcooper8141]

thank you my friends

[@ahmedabd2259]

I just love this channel

[@Johnnycdrums]

That's crazy, melt that stuff down, those metal alloys are worth money.

[@rbilleaud]

The Battle of the Bulge is a perfect example of why the Germans would not have been able to make much of their Alpine Fortress - no gas. All the military equipment in the world won't do you a bit of good.without oil.

[@Arctic204]

I was just watching war history with dad

[@johnlansing2902]

Read the book Reich of the Black Sun …. Has great info about the Bavarian area at the end of the war .

[@jabersawaya7131]

Amazing document for this final episode of the Third Reich

[@captainamerica3531]

Excellent

[@aurobinson9309]

So you expect me to think that little log has been there since WW2

[@silvermediastudio]

the one that's saw cut on both sides XD these theatrical reincarnations are such a joke. As if they're going to pick up live UXO from 80 years ago bare handed.

[@monicavanderwesthuizen6374]

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 .

[@voraciousreader3341]

Well, I am glad to hear that the Italian POWs ended up being good citizens, because they certainly sucked at being soldiers, lol!

[@Johnnycdrums]

We have to get this gold. Tell Austria and Germany, too bad.

[@351clevelandmodifiedmotor4]

0:50 Alp!!! I need somebody!! 🎶🎶 Alp not just any body AaaaAlp!!🎶🎶

[@Flint_Ironstagg]

1:58 it's tony shalhoub, moonlighting as a ww2 historian

[@man_in_red]

41:57 scorzani is looking pretty jacked look at them shoulder caps and massive triceps. I imagine as much treasure was found there is still millions out there. The hundreds of miles of underfround tunnels they built could never be totally explored if i had to guess thats where i would say alot of it still is.

[@Only_God_Is_Allah_SWT]

Imagine how much gold would be recovered if you invade the Great Britain. Enough to make the poorest country in the world a wealthiest superpower in the history. I remember Churchill was doing the same by boats and ships.

[@scotttyson7970]

Yep

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

WW2 is such a treasure trove of stories and legend.

[@nicolasfauteux6621]

Ww2

[@audiearmorer2686]

I myself have sold some of these recovered Bernard notes . I believe they were selling around 2020 , for about $800 USD per note !

[@Michael-of8gg]

I went to high school in Germany. I dream of going back to visit. So beautiful and green. Went Kaiserslaughtern (k town) and lived in a tiny town about 45 minutes away. Kirtzenheim. Sooo much history. All the castles

[@jonburrows2684]

Arabs have taken over Germany now. It's all theirs

[@jonburrows2684]

Lots of Allan snackbars in Germany now.

[@PS-jr1yq]

​@@jonburrows2684Kaiserslautern*****

[@jonburrows2684]

@@PS-jr1yq no hablo Espanol

[@Johnnycdrums]

As long as we get the gold before London, I'm good.

[@user-iq5tu5xz1m]

Cool. Split the loot man! Ya baby!😊

[@tomfrazier1103]

That's a Simpsons plot, Grandpa Simpson's unit recovered a bunch of Na$I gold...

[@Mr_Perses]

Interesting documentaries, but the immersion is destroyed by ads every two minutes. Jesus Christ do really need to have 10 ad breaks per video?

[@organicmechanic5150]

Edward Norton was Himmler 😂

[@kayr6422]

Can one imagine the sticky fingers of the Fourth Riech?

[@morecowbell235]

I was not looking for a "treasure hunting" video. Unfortunately, much of this video is just that. Besides, if something is found, it is not treasure. Most likely it was something stolen from people that were murdered.

[@Dfthg-bz3hp]

Finders keepers

[@reasonablyserious]

What kind of hidden treasure wouldn't be?

[@ryanpark2049]

Stealing from Jews was strictly prohibited by law and death penalty

[@Pkarchpray16]

The historian is a tool, Germany had some of the most advanced equipment of the time. Dont possibly think that if they truly believed they could turn the tide and get back into power, that they could develop the tech to recover it? He seemed a bit to dimissive of thier ambition.

[@lucianasalles7272]

Só desejo que meu Deus esteja com vocês em tudo, e isso é o meu tudo.

[@johncox2865]

23:45 And why, one might reasonably ask, would the Nazis have needed the help of a simple farmer, one who could betray their secrets?

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

Yes, they would have need it. Besides being difficult terrain to get about in. The Germans had *VERY* little gasoline/petrol available to them at this stage of the war. They also needed not only their animals & farm carts. But their physical aid as well. Boxes of gold aren't light, & its a *LOT* easier to hide. It if you have extra muscles to move it about. & they also could have relied upon the near fanatical loyalty of most these people. This was the ' beating heartland' of Hitler's political support amongst the German civilians.

[@albarrowman3739]

Lol pppppl ppl lp B B .

[@voornaam3191]

They should have asked the Norwegian resistance for advise, fighting in the mountains. I bet the Allies did. I remember a Norwegian man telling me, new German troops travelling north were ambushed, a fact that not everybody knows. Seeing those valleys, you realise the German army didn't stand a chance, and there was no safe alternative route either. It was hurrying and hoping for the best. Oops. And another example of fighting and mountains is Afghanistan. There is a KZbin video on British troops going home and they only had to cross an Afghan valley. Well, they were slaughtered. Lesson, the Afghan mountain people is a people of warriors. They never give up. Enemies simply do not pass their valleys. Mountains are a dangerous place for armies. Better remember that, when you are a general or a soldier.

[@voraciousreader3341]

Do you even know when Norway was liberated?? For your information, the German troops occupying Norway capitulated without a struggle after the unconditional surrender in May 1945. So how were the Allies to get training from Norwegian resistance fighters?? Not to mention that the hyperbole and stretching of the truth in this episode is truly ridiculous!

[@ulrich7819]

Ja the Americans are famous for stealing Treasures, almost as bad as the Russian. ! Only thing is that the Americans still stealing from every Country, the latest Iraq 🇮🇶 with Trainloads of Goldbars. Where is that Gold now ? Nobody talks about it. !

[@ulrich7819]

Why always so many lies !

[@TyDomi]

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

[@thesaints-7-andrew.]

Watching from Greece.hi everybody.

[@jamesmartin8385]

Hello from the USA!

[@thesaints-7-andrew.]

@@jamesmartin8385 hello James.

[@rosesprog1722]

Hello from french Canada, peace and happiness to you.

[@thesaints-7-andrew.]

@@rosesprog1722 thank you very much.same to you. btw great profile photo.

[@shizumaakiyama3129]

Why aren’t your videos available in Austria. I shared the links with a friend that lives in Austria and he cannot watch them. 😅

[@augusta8901]

Those Benjamins at 16:06!!!

[@nikshmenga]

A great big nothing

[@MrBibi86]

*You watch one WW2 documentary and suddenly that all you see on KZbin* 😆🤣

[@fpscanada3862]

sonke neitzel is in like every mainstream ww2 doc...

[@bmw-rider205]

Cz sk subtitle?

[@lucianasalles7272]

Enquanto eu ajudar, emito minhas considerações

[@mosleyminer3237]

If they want the gold. Look in South America where they spent it all

[@louise_rose]

You conspicuously avoid mentioning the name of this "secret fortress" (unless it's "Schwatz" or the like, at 7:40, but I can't find any fort of that name) - is this because the place is still kept under wraps and people are discouraged from looking at it, by the Austrian authorities? Berchtesgaden is the most famous of these fortified places of course, but it's clearly not the one featured here.

[@Vague101]

Thought the same thing. Read articles saying it was all propaganda by the nazis others say it was a plan but they didn’t have enough resources to go through with it which would explain why there’s no photos of this “fortress”

[@linuxuberuser]

Their is so much to this story that is still untold

[@ChicoCarvallo]

If the germans would make it to the Alps i have zero doubt the americans would nuke it like they did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki if it took to long fighting them.

[@corydunaway]

We didn't have enough nukes. Only 3 existed and 2 were dropped on Japan

[@annamosier1950]

Wow

[@pinoyhappynetwork]

Nothing compares to the yamashita treasure recovered by marcos sr. It includes a golden buddha and inside of head of the buddha are precious diamonds. It's the source of the marcos wealth up to this day.

[@ToquzOghuzKhaganatekhan]

Himler ! command your coffee !

[@annamosier1950]

wow planes made under ground

[@brega6286]

Good old Werner Von B.

[@shizumaakiyama3129]

Well that explains why so many germans love Mayorca so much they gotta go visit the grandpapas and great grandpapas graves in mayorca 😅

[@eddieellison7679]

Can someone explain why no one maintained these bunkers?

[@madusonkeeper]

Hiltlers Eagles nest been there!

[@skepticalhistorian797]

10 minutes of talk on a fortress, 40 minutes on lost treasures... typical history Channel

[@Carbonn6]

I call Storm Bow

[@crunchie9362]

"turns over log; 3 grenades"

[@gerryh6861]

Ads just don’t stop

[@annamosier1950]

wow yes true

[@joostvanputte]

Hi ik ben Rik en ik spaar gloeilampen 😂 Zonder gekheid, interessante video weer!! 👍🏻

[@udayappanravanan9792]

Hitlers plans went wrong because the counter attack of the soviet troops and the Allied landing were too speed than the nazis expected, they withdrew from kursk and leave the territory as empty, so the soviet advance were very rapid, the entire kursk offensive German division were got very tired with their long march, because of the worst Russian roads, the soviets and Allies advance might not allow the nazis to prepare that alpine fortress, and also the soviets were liberated Austria earlier of their Berlin offensive, so the speed of the Allied soviet army destroy the nazis nightmare, thank you.

[@ABC-48483]

Also it was the coldest winter on record, a million men froze to death I heard on the Russian front. Germans were like a few miles away from Moscow at one point. Russia got lucky

[@udayappanravanan9792]

@@ABC-48483 yes I agree with you sir, thank you

[@ZaJaClt]

You genuinely believe if the winter was 10 degrees less cold they would have survived or something?

[@ABC-48483]

@@ZaJaClt yeah

[@georgepreece2023]

Nazis won the war

[@katherinecooper6159]

This is the first I have heard of 'the America rocket' frightening

[@jeffmedina43]

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

[@eviltwinzak]

And well deserved.

[@damianousley8833]

If the fathers who found the treasures that weren't recovered in bulk appeared suddenly well off, then it is safe bet the weath has already been spent decades many years ago in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

[@justadildeau]

The Nazis did end up getting the last laugh after all

[@angelashort1331]

They re distributed themselves world wide ,Even down to N Z , Nowadays ,their children and grandchildren , lead in world events such as UN , WEF, CIA , FBI, WHO, Progeny were breddeliberately, to influence the future world tobecomewhat it is today, Godless , fanatical , hedonistic, , An ANTI CHRIST WORLD , , EVERYWHERE AT WORK, AND THE VATICAN IS STILL HELPING HIM WITH THAT, THIS IS A SPIRITUAL TIME OFWAR , , CHOOSE LIFE, CHOOSE YESHUA , THE ANNOINTED ONE,

[@georgepreece2023]

Won the war

[@bravefastrabbit770]

@@georgepreece2023 Are you referring to the ”nazis run the nwo” argument?

[@eviltwinzak]

Generally you choose the lesser of 2 evils.

[@SeamHead33]

WW2 was Man vs. Evil and Man lost

[@markich9510]

Am I tripping or is the narrator Willem Defoe?

[@uhohwhy]

Too long, all could be wrapped up in 10 mins