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Lake Fuschl [1] [2] [3] (German: Fuschlsee) is a lake in the Salzkammergut, Austria, located in the state of Salzburg. Its area is approximately 2.7 km 2 (1.0 sq mi) and its maximum depth is 66 metres.
German submarine U-977 was a World War II Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine which escaped to Argentina after Germany's surrender. The submarine's voyage to Argentina led to legends, apocryphal stories and conspiracy theories that it and U-530 had transported escaping Nazi leaders (such as Adolf Hitler) and/or Nazi gold to South America, that it had made a secret voyage to ...
They found 3,682 bags and cartons of German currency, 80 bags of foreign currency, 8,307 gold bars, 55 boxes of gold bullion, 3,326 bags of gold coins, 63 bags of silver, one bag of platinum bars, eight bags of gold rings and 207 bags and containers of Nazi loot that included valuable artwork.
Some of the 75 objects found in the collector's home include a bust of Adolf Hitler, boxes with swastikas and a macabre medical device, the AP reports.
The gold was protected by a vault, which was eventually blasted. Inside was a room 75 x 150 feet containing 7,000 numbered bags of gold bar and coins, 250 tons in all. The vault stored currencies from across Europe, including 2.7 billion Reichsmarks and 98 million French francs (equivalent to 11 billion 2021 €).
Links were alleged between Nazi Germany and Laureano Gómez's newspaper El Siglo during the 1930s and 1940s, although Colombia has generally had little fascist activity in its history outside of the German community. [20] In the 1980s, the drug dealer Carlos Lehder founded his own neo-Nazi party, the National Latin Movement.
Schloss Fuschl is a castle in the municipality of Hof bei Salzburg, in the Land Salzburg in western Austria. It stands on a peninsula at the western end of Lake Fuschl , a glacier lake. It contains a collection of old master paintings, [ 1 ] : 425 and a museum holding objects relating to the film Sissi , parts of which were filmed in the castle.
Hermann Eissler Restitution request to German authorities after discover in the Gurlitt stash in Munich. [124] Restituted to the heirs in 2017. [125] Ferdinan Georg Waldmüller, Der Dachstein von Alt-Aussee gesehen, (View of Lake Altaussee and the Dachstein) oil painting, 1834 [126] Thomas Couture, Portrait de jeune femme assise, oil painting, 1850