During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria.
Fearful of arrest and determined to keep the stolen loot out of Allied hands, they concealed their treasures and fled.
Most of these men were eventually apprehended, but many managed to evade capture.
The intensive postwar Allied investigation that followed recovered only a sliver of this mountain of gold.
What happened to the .
Casemate Nazi millionaires: the allied search for hidden ss gold, paperback/kenneth alford
