Since January, when the national archive showed a hand-drawn map with a red cross on it, fortune seekers have gathered in Ommeren. But now the search is over.
“We have come to the conclusion that there is no Nazi treasure in Ommeren. We assume that the treasure was once buried in Ommeren, but that it was removed at some point,” Birgit van Aken-Quin of the municipality of Buren announces in an email.
According to documents kept with the map, there was testimony that the Nazis buried four ammunition boxes full of jewelry, gems and gold coins. The value today is estimated at eleven million euros, corresponding to SEK 124 million.
The Nazis are said to have appropriated the treasure since a bank in Arnhem was bombed in 1944.