The Nazi’s where hateful people who caused a lot of unnecessary deaths and destruction. They raided many museums of rare items and took families valuable possessions. Through out the course of the war much of the treasures that had been looted, where either hidden for Hitler or selfish soldiers hid it with hopes of returning after the war to claim it.

I came up with a list of five of what I thought to be the biggest Nazi treasures that have never been located and still out there waiting to be found.

Dachau Nazi War Treasure

The Dachau Treasure was valuable items like gold and jewels that were stolen from about 35,000+ Jewish prisoners when they were thrown into Dachau Concentration Camps in 1933 to 1945. Dachau didn’t only house Jewish prisoners but also Nazi war criminals one of which was a former SS solider who had been part of the Nazi unit that stole these goods from the prisoners.

Before the former SS solider was put to death he told a Austrian doctor Wilhem Grob of the existence of an impressive treasure in which he and his fellow soldiers stole and where planning on hiding before he got caught. Turns out shortly after the form SS officer was imprisoned, the other men of the unit packed the treasure into 4 separate boxes which they hid in a lake somewhere in the Austrian Alps.

In 1952, Edward Greger an Army intelligence officer stationed in Austrian had befriended the doctor and was told of the story and treasure. The both went in search of the treasure but years of erosion had changed the landscape making it impossible. In 1992, Edward had returned once again to the site were the treasure was supposed to be hid, but again found nothing.

It is believed that to this day the treasure still lies in its original hiding spot in a lake in the Swiss Alps waiting to be found.

Hitler’s Lost Gold in Deutschneudorf, Germany

This site in Germany is suspected of holding a hidden cache of 2 tons worth of gold and valuable artwork which was hidden in an old ore mine 30 feet below ground towards the end of the war. Evidence has been found on this site that verifies the Nazi’s had indeed been there at some point in time.

Treasure hunter Christian Hanischs father was a navigator in the Nazi air force and is said to be one of the soldiers that helped hide the gold and valuable artworks. Before his death he left his son the coordinates to the cave which is 30 feet underground in an old ore mine.

Christian and fellow treasure hunter Heinz Peter Haustein started to dig on location early in 2008 and soon after both stopped the digging because they were sure they have found an underground cave that might be full of water. They are almost 100% positive it is the lost cave they have been searching for but they concerned it might either cave in wrecking valuable artwork or it might be booby trapped with explosives which could destroy everything.

Either way the world is going to have to wait to see but Christian’s biggest dream is that that secret cave his father told him about is true and contains the infamous Amber Room which disappeared in 1941.

The SS Honor Ring Treasure

These SS Honor Rings where given to Nazi soldiers that showed bravery in the field of duty. The rings where made of silver and manufactured by Gahr & Co. of Munich and is said that 14,500 rings were made total. The rings were supposed to be returned to Wewelsburg castle the spiritual home of the SS when the soldier that was wearing it died in battle.

It is said that by the end of the war, around 9,280 where returned to the castle and then some SS soldier was ordered to hide them in a cave and destroy the entrance. To this day the rings still remain lost but there are a few authentic rings out there that have been found in the fields of battle or were passed down through the family. The authentic SS Honor ring goes for about $6,000 to $12,000 in today’s market but if the other rings where to be found it would extremely bring down the value of the rings.

Imagine if you found 9,000 of these SS rings and sold each ring for $6,000 then in total you would have $54,000,000 which to me is pretty spectacular.

Amber Room

Now for those of you who don’t know what this is it’s the world famous Amber Room probably one of the most beautiful and recognizable pieces of art in my opinion. This is the only picture in the entire world of the Amber Room in color.

In 1701, a Prussian King named Friedrich Wilhelm had received a gift made from Amber. He liked the appearance so much that he ordered a master Amber artist to create a giant wall covering made out of Amber. So with that that famous Amber room was born. The room had an extensive history being passed through a number of hands which where royalty and so on.

Finally in Nazi possession, the Amber room was put on display in the Castle of Konigsberger where the public could see the treasure the Nazi’s had looted. In August 1944, after bombing efforts the castle laid in ruins and the Amber room had mysteriously disappeared.

It is said the room was destroyed in the bombing attacks but treasure hunters swear there is documentation proving the Amber room was packed up and hidden away. Even test of the ruins of the castle supposedly showed no signs of burnt Amber which leads people to believe it had in fact been moved.

After 1944 the Amber room totally disappeared but clues kept surfacing which suggested to historians and treasure hunters that the amazing piece of history is still out there waiting to be found.

Nazi Gold & Auckland Islands

Now this very well could be just a myth since there has been no real proof like eye witnesses or paper work like the others mentioned above, but never the less the story started somewhere.

It is said that a Nazi U-Boat had visited the islands in 1945 to hide various boxes of gold, silver and foreign currency. It’s not clear if it was buried on the island or if the soldiers merely just sunk it in a specific area.

Although there is no real proof of this story there are look out towers on the island that were said to be used for a short time by Nazi soldiers so maybe it is true.

Each lost Nazi treasure is spectacular in its own way but the fact is that each treasure is that of the peoples and not one single person. Most of the gold and silver bars used to be jewelry that of the poor and condemned that was melted down into bars.

Hitler’s plan for hiding all these valuable and irreplaceable treasures was in case he lost the war then he would have funds to fall back on to rebuild the Nazi regime and start all over. I guess it just wasn’t Hitler’s fate to take over the world.

Now the world could have possibly lost some of the most important artworks and treasures from history which is a real pity.