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Rommel's Gold - Real or Rumour?
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2022
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People have searched for it for 80 years, but what is Rommel's Gold? Does it even exist?
Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.o...
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Is no secred what happen with all those mythical tresures ... never existed ! , nazi knew that war was lost in 1943 they hidden as much gold they could , because gold is "for ever" and inflation prove , when money are year after year less valuable , we use same gold as people have use 5000 years ago , and is still worth something , so what happen with all those tresures , nazi have shiped some to south America , some placed in neutral Swizterland but majority they left in Germany , and (supprise) nazi did not dissapired ! , they stayed in Germany , they where largest criminal network in white gloves , had children , grand children , started companies and ww2 stolen gold is why Germany is richest country in Europe ... meanwhile my great grandfather a ethnic Pole in Poznan , Poland had 5 apartment buildings , a loot of lands , and 8 kg gold in bank , I have couted all that was worth 22M$ in today money , but because Germany attacked Poland , they stole gold , destroyed/burn those appartment buildings ... after war was ended , and communism was forced on Poland state just take those lands because that was owned by "Germans" in ww2 ... so yes F%¤# nazis F¤#% Germans , they need to pay reparations for Poland , is historical justice !
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Mark, can you also discuss Yamashita's treasures in one of your future videos? That story never gets old in my native Philippines.
I saw a TV show on that around a year ago, they dragged it out for months and never found anything. It was very disappointing
Read "Gold Warriors" by Stirling Seagrave. Mind-blowing book.
I'm sure if they do exist. All has been looted by the Allies in occupation
@@DevinPurcell CIA got the bulk of it fact.
Agreed, I would love a video on Yamashita’s Treasure
My father was in Libya in the late 50s. A story he heard was about how the Italian government gathered up valuables from the Italian citizens and hid them from the allies, who the Italian authorities realized would win. According to what my father was told by the individual hunting for the treasure, the valuables were buried along the coastline. Unfortunately, the landmark(s) identifying the location vanished during the war. It would be interesting if this is the same treasure you mention. I've always thought it would make a great movie. Mix in Nazis, the Mafia, and others.
That would be an amazing movie.
Bro the Italian government took all your stuff
Mark, from what I understand of the SS, Himmler and the orders regarding "treasury" taken from the Jews was strict and unwavering. All items of value were to be logged, packaged and brought to Berlin to the Reichs Treasury. Himmler was very strict regarding this policy and punished many SS personnel who were caught pocketing valuables for themselves. Rauf was a fanatical SS Officer and, in my opinion, would have followed Himmlers policies to the letter. I feel a gold hoard of this size would not have been able to disappear without the knowledge of Rauf. I, therefore, believe that the gold was most likely brought to Germany and to the Reichs Treasury.
Things go missing in war, Rauf might have known.
I think alot of these "secret gold hoards" were taken by U-boat to South America and then stories created to Essentially account for the missing gold/throw people off the tail of what actually happened to it.
But your theory is very sound. Don't doubt that alot of the gold that was "hidden" was most likely found in that blown up mine.
A sound appraisal.
Agreed...A number of SS officers ran afoul of Himmler and his belief that all confiscated valuables were property of the Reich...
If it’s one thing I know, it’s that the nazi war machine loved it’s damned list.
@@stonedtowel Definitely! They made triplicate documents and were very thorough in their documentation which is what made it possible to prosecute many of them for war crimes.
The sore on Rommel's lip seen at time stamp 1:00 was from a type of sand fly that was common in the North African desert. They are notorious for biting people on the lips.
About Rauff's last home in Chile. It was located in what was back then a middle class enclave in Vitacura, one of the most affluent quarters in Santiago. The house became notorious after his demise. Neighbors of course started to tell stories about the house, most of which were obviously made-up memories spurred by Rauff's post mortem notoriety. Interestingly enough, few of the stories were about the man himself. He was seldom seen, apparently. The person who told me this, a retired journalist that used to live nearby, said the only thing he remembered clearly was that the house seemed to have a second gate, or "a false entrance", in his words. I hope this helps anyone interested. I tried to keep it clean from rumor and speculation
Thank you.
So you are alluding that he took the gold with him?
@@gigachad7153 No at all. My comment contains no allusion, direct or indirect, to the gold. It is simply a footnote to the segment of the video relating Rauff's later years.
@@gigachad7153 Yes, all of the gold is hidden under his mattress actually.
Must've been a pretty though mattress to sleep on
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You should talk about Yamashita's treasure submarine. It is a rampant belief here in the Philippines who believe that Yamashita either buried some treasure somewhere or the submarine carrying it sunk in the bottom. Generations of Filipino treasure hunter are convinced that it's real with many stories of actual people funding treasure hunting expeditions only to find nothing.
That would be fascinating to see. 👍🏼
Yes, that is more often the case than not... almost every time. But, if someone can get funded, no loss for them.
Marianas
Sorry to disappoint but the treasure located in the Phillipines was discovered in a cave by a local. He told someone in authority and they removed it, I believe it went to Marcos who then threatened to kill the finder.
@@gardnep Imelda bought more shoes with it?
Do you have a link to this story?
My old headmaster (1970s) was a member of the LRDG during WW2. I remember him talking about crates of gold in the desert not far from the oasis at Siwa. Apparently they didn’t have room for it as they were behind enemy lines at the time. Planned to go back, but either shifting sands covered it or someone else had found the stuff. How true this was/is I’m not sure, but the guy did have small gold Egyptian artefacts in his desk..
*looted artifacts
Mark, perhaps you would consider doing a video on Mathias Rust, the West German teenager who flew his Cessna into Red Square in 1987 that led to the sacking of many hard line military leaders in the Kremlin and the ascent of reformers under Mikhail Gorbachev. The details would make for a fascinating story!
Agree.
I remember that. I was living in West Germany at the time, and that was huge news.
You gotta realize: His audience is perversely obsessed with a short-lived regime of the UK/USA's longtime boogeyman Germany; and storytelling 70+ years of a murderous/rapist/stealing/occupying USSR, that "we" enabled, doesn't matter to them, doesn't fit the narrative, nor is it lucrative. Plenty material there, but it's easier (& pays) to beat up on Germany ad nauseum
I remember watching his landing, on the news. I was mind blowing.
Seems to me that such a shipment, if it actually existed, would have been transported by Air due to the distance it had to travel and, of course, the dangers you've mentioned by taking the road. I'm sure the Shipment exists and is either lost or long been spent. Looting near the end of WWII was rampant. So much so said event made it into the Movie "Kelly's Heroes" and if they made a movie about it I'm sure it there was some truth behind it. Granted Kelly's Heroes takes place in a different part of the War but the concept is there, lots of Gold Bars for all that will assist in it's capture...
The symbolic image 2:07 into the film shows silver bars. Marked "FS" - "Fein Silber" 999.
"ROMMEL'S GOLD" sounds like the title of a 1970's ABC Movie of the Week. 🤔😛
Fantastic as always Professor Felton, thank you !
One thing for sure, Mark will never run out of untold stories from WW2.
How about a story on "Rommel's Liquor?" Sold at PXs in Germany in the 60s and 70s were small wooden crates of a selection of liquors supposedly looted by Rommel himself from North Africa. The liquor followed a circuitous and mostly unbelievable route to Europe, finally ending up at said PXs. When I was a volunteer curator at a WWII museum we received one of these crates as a donation. My curator-senses started twitching and I did some research. While some wanted to display it, I concluded the tale was too suspect and recommended we drink it all. As far as I know it's still there in the storeroom...
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink-- under any circumstances."
- Mark Twain
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"Nobody has found it" or nobody had admitted publicly to having found it.
Gold is not the most fascinating thing here its the fact that he manage to escape and get to Syria and then later in his life the West German government was paying him a wage. That’s the story in depth that I would be interested in
Dr. Felton, you have added so much to the historical record. Bless you for you contributions to history.
Jackie Chan had made movie namely armour of God II released in 1991. It was about Afrika korp treasure and how it was buried by Afrika korp unit in North Africa and quest for finding the same.
With regard to finding the gold, it would not be necessary to Hoover up tons of sand. There is a device known as a magnetometer that detects metal items, and if the ammunition boxes were made of steel, it would leave some imprint in the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. There are also very sophisticated metal detectors and side scanning sonar that could be useful.
Of course, that's assuming there's any truth to the idea of there being boxes of gold there.
Pretty sure they would've dug it up deep enough for most conventional metal detectors to not be able to pick it up easily, also, I'm not sure that running a metal detector throughout a whole desert is feasible either
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Magnetometers have a very wide range, and can be utilized much as side scanning sonar is for looking for ships. They are often used to look for shipwrecks in huge expanses of ocean.
I know a metal detector works in a similar way, but I'm not sure how sensitive the frequencies can be made in those. I do know that there are some metal detectors that are capable of very deep penetration in the ground.
When the German invaders occupied Denmark on the 9th of April 1940, they rushed to the Nationalbank of Denmark to seize the gold depot. They opened the safe and it was all gone. The director of the Nationalbank had secretly moved the gold to London and during the Blitz it was transferred to the USA. I'm not sure, but the Norwegians did something similar as far as I can remember. Maybe you can make a video on the Danish action. Someone wrote a book about the incident.
I’d love to hear more of these missing and found treasures of ww2. I’d also like to hear you talk about the holy Roman imperial regalia since it was taken and used symbolically in the third reich
Any plans to make a video about Yamashita's treasure?
Well, this just got interesting. I remember hearing a rumor about this years ago in an old military magazine.
Rommel's Treasure was comprehensively dealt with by Spike Milligan and the Goons in 1955.
It was buried in a box in the desert 10 feet above the ground...
elaborate please
10 ft ABOVE ground??!! lolol
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@@alexanderordinary2110 "10 feet above the ground? But people will see it!"
"That's a chance we will have to take..."
@@david_fisher I think this is my only observed instance of this phrase that isn't uncalled for, inaccurate or hostile *and* I agree. The Goon Show as a radio performance has to be experienced rather than being told about. I loved Spike's written sense of humour from being a lad. Unfortunately a lot of the performances haven't aged well, in my humble opinion.
Friday after work video, always love these... Cheers!
If that German diver knew where the gold was and was a salvage diver after the war then why didn't he retrieve the gold? On the other hand maybe he did and just never said anything.
Wow the great stories just keep flowing!
Most of the looted gold that can be found is located in Swiss bank vaults.
The real Rommel's gold is dr feltons videos, they surpass any material value and contain a plethora of information in an easy to understand manner
His work is brilliant and easy for anyone to follow.
I think his work would benefit high school and college students.
OK, even if this wasn't one of the greatest history channels of all time, it does have the world's greatest theme music.
Mentioning movies, sounds like the inspiration for _Kelly's Heroes_
Thank you Mark Felton.
You jus made my day mark! So glad she I see you have dropped a new video on us!
Another great video from Dr Felton.
It was not Rommel`s gold, but rather Rauff`s.
Perhaps I watched too many episodes of “Hogan’s Heroes,” but I always had the impression that no matter what a command organization flowchart might look like, Himmler and the SS was the real military power.
I have come to a similar conclusion. I found Dr Felton's series on Himmler's demise fascinating. There are huge questions raised which will probably never be answered.
Dunno where you got that idea, the SS never really came close to rivaling the Wehrmacht in any way.
Himmler is just a powerful man but not the real power behind the Reich. Herman Goering and his Luftwaffe are just as ambitious as he is, and the Wehrmacht - Heer under the old Prussian aristocrats isn't gonna let either of the two get into power...
I don't think one really operated under the other. The Wermacht Heer was Germany's Army carrying out the orders of and fulfilling their duties to the German state. The SS was the Nazi Party's Army carrying out the orders of and fulfilling the duties to the Nazi Party.
As far as I am aware, they operated fairly independently of each other. The Wermacht reigned supreme of course, but where the SS got themselves involved, they had to be listened to.
There are similarities to the Communist Party Commissars in the Soviet Red Army, but the Commissars were far more integrated into the Red Army and had greater authority. But there wouldn't be whole separate units of Soviet Commissars doing their own separate missions like the SS. They were 100% integrated into the Soviet Red Army structure, even if they had a separate hierarchy to follow.
@@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns The Waffen-SS was under Wehrmacht operational control, not the other way around as the original comment is suggesting. Militarily the SS was small fry compared to the regular armed forces.
Mark, this is fantastic, as usual. Can you do a video on where the gold is now?
This is the Nazi Equivalent of Yamashitas gold, but we all struck gold the day we discovered Mark Feltons Channels
What ultimately happened to all the Nazi marked gold bars captured by the US Army? Can we get a video on that?
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Maybe “Beyond Oak Island” will take up this after the treasure is eventually found there. Sounds like the making of a new series….. “The Hunt for Rommels Gold”
Hahah that's the best oxymoron I've seen in ages! 😂
@@imperfectly-balanced8861 I do try 🤣
@@cripplers8 i for one appreciate a good laugh thanks mate!
I also appreciate a good joke that may appear like it isn't one to someone, shall we say "more optimistic" (or possibly "more disillusioned"?) hahaha 😆
Plot twist, they find the oak island treasure in 2023, only to discover that IT IS Rommel's gold 😂
@@imperfectly-balanced8861 I had an open door opportunity and ran with it 😂
In this episode, they dig, find vague pieces of wood, and suffer a machine failure....
With 40/60 minutes being commercials.
On the next episode... reference the above
Mark, have you considered a story on Georges Mandel, former French minister of the interior? It's a fascinating tale that many people don't know. Thanks.
The intro music always makes it seem like I could be walking into a scene from Dr. Strangelove to be briefed on the situation in the classic WAR room setting lol history channel wishes they could still produce quality of this level. I feel like the buddy from National Treasure that just follows Nicholas Cage while he talks about history.
Hi there, dear Dr.Felton, (Phd History), I have a simple wish and a simple question, and I hope here is the place to mention, that I am sometimes interested in STAZI history. So, I will be very grateful if we have an episode about it and who of the Nazis transitioned to it, and possibly how. Thank you very much in advance. Greetings, Stefan Tsarev, Sofia-Blagoevgrad Bulgaria
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I need these videos about German WW2 History like I need air. Well done sir. Thank you for making these.
William Stanley Moss, "Gold is where you
hide it: What happened to the Reichsbank Treasure"
published by Andre Deutsch, London, 1956. ✌
If anyone out there has converted this book into
an e-book (pdf), please post it to me. 🙏
Wow,
What a treasure hunt story Mark , very interesting, now In fact , enjoy metal detecting, so this story of Gold was super. Thanks for posting and definitely enjoyed the history lesson for today 🎉✅✅
Another great Mark Felton documentary. :)
Thanks again. I’ll try Enlisted. I’ve bought your advertised products before, and I appreciate the recommendations. Also, I’ve greatly enjoyed 2 of your books now. This channel is one of UA-cam’s best.
It’s also possible that it was retrieved shortly after the war.
Thank you again, Mark!
👎- for commercial ads .. otherwise a really fascinating story ✌
Requesting the title be renamed to Rommel's gold - real or bullion?
Another great video, thanks Doc!
They say they had no luck...... It would be problematic to try and sell nazi gold bars so if they were found they'd be smelted and recast before being sold
Another very interesting story. Keep up the good work.
Great video and story! Enlisted is actually much fun, good sponsor.
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I hope your weekend is very relaxing and enjoyable! I just went thru a rough patch, but its over now, I'm thankful my troubles are not life threatening! Hope yours are not aswell!
Fascinating as always. Mark, you're a great storyteller.
A wonderful video about Rommels gold ✨️ 💛 in Africa Corp campaign...thanks Dr Mark Felton for sharing this wonderful video
Fascinating.
Erwin Romel was not a Thief unlike the SS he was a soldiers soldier.
Mark Felton IS the Gold Standard
I somehow doubt SS would bring gold to Corsica and then just dump it into the water :D Most difficult part of the journey was over, and the rest was relatively safe, either using U-boat or airplane. In 1942 Axis still controlled these waters and airspace, it was before Torch and El Alamein .
That was a good one. Thanks Mark
"Sounds like a plot to Hollywood movie if you ask me"
Sounds like the plot to a Hong Kong Jackie Chan movie if you ask me
Seems out of character that they would have told the diver what was in the boxes. It also seems unlikely that a sole diver could lift a box full of gold into a cavern by himself. And it seems odd that they would have left him alive to tell the tale.
I’d love a video on Yamashita’s Treasure and the Awa Maru Treasure in the future. Keep up the good work Dr. Felton!
That's great!
Btw, The Wild Geese is a great movie.
@@vincentyeo88 Thank you!
Thank Mark!!!!
Thank You Dr. Felton
Always Enjoy Your Videos !!
Very Interesting 👍
Really interesting 👌 Thank you, will the truth ever come out ?
Absolutely fascinating, Dr Felton. Thank you.
I was thinking that the late Alastair MacLean would have made a fun novel of this
Feldmarscall Rommel is renown for his integrity so it seems unlikely.
Thank you for yet another informative video Dr. Felton!
A war criminal who had freedom for the best part of 40 years, if he knew of gold no matter who it belonged to or where it was, over 40 years the temptation would have been too great not to discuss with someone somewhere at sometime. ☠
The only way this good will be found is if like mark said tons of sand is shifted during an archeological investigation or if the waters dried up, many people will descend on those lakes to try find the gold…but at that point I wouldn’t be worried about gold I’d be worried about the lakes drying up 😂
Excellent video.
One thing I'll say is that if an Afrika Korps unit intercepted the shipment and buried it for later retrieval, it is possible that after the war it was quietly retrieved. Six ammo boxes buried in the desert wouldn't have been that hard to transport. Get it to the coast and onto a boat without being seen and well, it's possible.
The only way you get to keep things like war booty today are by keeping your mouth completely shut about it.
Isn’t this all the gold the Americans found in an old mine in Bavaria and I suspect it now is in Fort Knox
Some vault in Switzerland has got it.
It is of no coincidence that Switzerland suddenly became very rich after WW2, noticed? 😎
Too damn right
Doesn´t just sound like a movie, it is a movie. Operation Condor (Armour of God II) , an awesome (though not perfectly aged) Jackie Chan film from 1991.
This sounds like the plot out of: "Inside Out" (1975) starring James Mason and Telly Savalas.
Most likely, Rauf shipped the gold piece by piece. No one would risk to ship all of the gold during war. A real war, not Afghanistan and Iraq.
I'm pretty sure that gold was retrieved just after the war by people involved in it being hidden, after all, would you let it be known that you had the gold, I know I sure wouldnt.
The trail for Gaddafi’s gold should still be hot but no one’s mentioned it much over the last 10 years.
If I understand Gaddafi correctly, that gold might have met the same fate as his weapons stockpiles: deliberately spread across whoever is allied to him...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131, there were stories of numerous convoys of Mercedes heading over to Chad at the time.
Why would anyone admit finding it. We've seen cases of "give me that it was mine first"
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Thank you for video sir
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I remember seeing the footage from Rauf’s funeral on some Nat Geo special too!
Thanks for another great video
May be off track, I read a story many years ago, and it was a story not history that an American orderly unit of records keepers came across a gold stash in Tunisa left behind by retreating Germans and somehow got into Switzerland without official records! Those involved and their family’s for decades lived the high life without anyone ever questioning the origin of their wealth! As I said, it was just a story but it does open questions!
Thank you
It BELONGS in a MUSEUM.