Unsolved mysteries of World War II

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Ratlines​

For instance, Adolf Eichmann (one of the major players in the Holocaust) was eventually captured by the Mossad (Israel's intelligence agency) in Argentina and later sentenced to death.

 

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Ratlines​

It is not exactly known how ratlines worked and who was involved. However, Pope Pius XII is said to have played a part, but unfortunately there are no known documents in the Vatican to prove it one way or the other.

 

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What happened to the Amber Room?​

The Amber Room was an actual room inside the Catherine House, a royal palace in Pushkin, Russia. This photo from 1917 is the only color record of the Amber Room before World War II.

 

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What happened to the Amber Room?​

Of course, then the Nazis entered the room in 1941 and stole the elaborate amber and gold panels. They were supposedly shipped to Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), never to be seen again. The room has since been recreated (pictured).

 

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Why did a Nazi Party leader fly to Scotland?​

In 1941, a Scottish farmer found a plane crashed on his land, but a man was standing next to it. The man was Nazi Party leader Rudolf Hess.

 

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Closer to home. Where is yamashita’s gold ? How many did LKY betrayed working as a translator ?

 

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Why did a Nazi Party leader fly to Scotland?​

The high-ranking Nazi official flew from Germany to Scotland, and managed to escape all radars and, consequently, anti-aircraft artillery. This was, of course, until he crashed in Scotland.

 

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Why did a Nazi Party leader fly to Scotland?​

Hess' supposed reason to fly to Scotland was that he wanted to negotiate peace with the UK, but no one bought his excuse.

 

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Why did a Nazi Party leader fly to Scotland?​

Rudolf Hess was captured and eventually spent his last last days in the Allied-control Spandau Prison in Berlin, where he remained until in death in 1987.

 

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Yamashita's treasure​

Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita reportedly buried a looted treasure somewhere in the Philippines. Yamashita was eventually executed by American forces in 1946, so the secret might have died with him. It goes without saying that a treasure hunt begun.

 

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Yamashita's treasure​

A man named Rogelio Roxas reportedly found part of the treasure in 1971. He then sued former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos for confiscating it. Roxas won, but the court ruling came after he had died. As for the rest of the treasure, well, no one knows.

 

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Why the Nazis abandoned an Arctic station​

Schatzgräber was a Nazi weather station strategically located 620 miles (997 km) from the North Pole, which was abandoned in 1944 when people got sick after eating raw polar bear meat.

 

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Why the Nazis abandoned an Arctic station​

It sounds like a poor excuse for the Nazis to abandon such a strategic spot. The existence of the station was not made public until 1953, which makes it even more mysterious. It does make us wonder: what really went down at Schatzgräber?

 

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The disappearance of a World War II hero​

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is considered a World War II hero for saving thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary.

 

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The disappearance of a World War II hero​

Wallenberg was eventually captured by Soviet officers in early 1945, and no one knows exactly what happened next. The Soviets claimed that he died in 1947, but sightings were reported as late as the 1980s.

 

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Pearl Harbor ghost plane​

The Pearl Harbor attack took place on December 7, 1941. Then, on December 8, 1942, an aircraft coming from Japan was detected by a Navy radar. Navy pilots went to intercept the invader, but they reportedly saw an American P-40 fighter instead of an enemy plane.

 

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Pearl Harbor ghost plane​

The P-40 fighter, however, had bullet holes, ruined landing gear, and the pilot, who was covered in blood, waived at them. The plane then crashed, but there was no sign of the pilot. The story is disputed to this day, and many claimed it to be an urban myth.

 

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The Blood Flag​

The Blood Flag got its name after it got stained with blood during Hitler’s failed coup, known as the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. It became a powerful symbol for the party, but it vanished after the war ended. Was it destroyed? Does it still exist? These questions remain unanswered.

 

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Die Glocke​

Die Glocke was a rumored Nazi secret Wunderwaffe (German for "Wonder Weapon") in the shape of a bell. It has been dismissed by many experts as a conspiracy theory, but is it?