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A Polish treasure hunter who believes that he has found the legendary 'Nazi gold train' has been granted official permission to search for the apocryphal horde of riches. Michał Motak made headlines last May when he anonymously contacted the city of Wałbrzych with a rather audacious claim. The treasure hunter, who has since revealed his identity, asserted that he had determined the location of a secret tunnel containing three WWI railroad cars hidden in a secret tunnel by German forces sometime around the end of the war. What made his account particularly compelling was that a Wałbrzych official described his claim as "substantive and concrete." Nearly a year later, Motak may soon put his bold theory to the test.
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