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Question: Is it feasible that there are still sunken U-Boats out there loaded with Nazi gold!?
I know it's story line popular in adventure novels and TV series, but is it actually possible that there are still U-Boats out there loaded with Nazi gold!?

If so, what part of the ocean would they most likely be in!? Didn't a lot of Nazi officials try to make it to South America!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Near the end of the war in Europe a U-boat was sent on a secret mission loaded with gold but sunk off the east coast USA, so far as I know its location was never known so it will be someones good fortune to find it if it lies in water sufficiently shallow to work at salvage!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

The easy answer is that they could be anywhere, submarines could sink on their way to Boston as easily as on their way to the arctic ice shelf!.

The good news is that gold does not rust!. Salt water doesn't hurt it, they still find gold coins that were sunk when Mt!. Vesuvius buried Pompeii in 79 AD!.

The bad news is that more than half the planet is covered by water, and in many places, it's very deep!. If a submarine sank in the Mariana Trench, in an area called Challenger Deep, it's 36,201 feet down!. Few submarines can venture that deep to recover gold, and certainly divers cannot work at that depth!.

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I imagine that the Nazi's hid gold where ever they could!. I don't know about U Boats having gold but its entirely possible!. The thing is that Hitler was insane, and insane people tend to be paranoid, so its entirely possible that he stashed gold all over Europe!. I do know that there are still "undiscovered" U Boats that sank off the east coast of America!. You also have to take into consideration that every years there are dozens of divers all over the world that are re-discovered with the majority of their precious cargos still intact!. Spanish, Portuguese, and British ships that sank after battle or due to weather conditions!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Its very feasible,there is a story about some lake in europe where theres supposed to be a stash of gold, but the lake is supposed to be really deep!.But you would reckon with all the technology today, someone would of got it!.My father is with a german woman and she told me that in the 80`s a statue in germany was full of gold and no one new till they came to move it!.I think thers stashes all over europe still!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

fair chance i would say,there were u-boats that appeared in south america months after the war ended with no log of where they had been,the popular story is that they took high ranking nazi's to south america so it would make sense they wouldn't be poor,and i have a feeling that there was one lost taking gold to japan,there was a lot of technology given to the japanese(jet engine plans etc) and it was done by u-boatsWww@QuestionHome@Com

It's perfectly possible!. There are still places in Germany which haven't been found yet, according to my 83 year old neighbour who was in the SS!.Www@QuestionHome@Com



sounds like a lousy urban legend, though feasible!.Www@QuestionHome@Com