The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Chapter 1730: Above the mass graves

Albrecht-Dürer, the most famous painter in Germany at the end of the 15th century and the early 16th century, some Germans even think that he is the most famous painter in the history of the entire German nation.

"The most" is that everyone has a book in their minds, and some people may disagree, but Dürer ranks the top three German painters in the traditional sense, and there is absolutely no problem.

As for Raphael Sansi, this is the youngest of the "Three Post-Renaissance Masters" in Italy, a contemporary of Dürer. His achievements represent what the artists of that era could achieve in the career of ideal beauty during the Renaissance. The pinnacle!

These two paintings were famous when they were alive. Today, almost 500 years later, as long as their paintings appear on the international market, it seems that none of them will be less than a million dollars, and tens of millions of them are sparse. usually.

A bunch of paintings are not many, and they can be stored together with Dürer and Raphael's works. It is estimated that the other paintings will not be the works of unknown people, but Zhang Nan will not be able to recognize them for the time being.

Don't worry if you don't recognize it. There are experts under his hand. At this time, he will say to others: "After moving out, let Jerry and the others have a look. Maybe there are small surprises."

The two cultural relics experts hired by Zhang Nan for life also came together, but this would not be in the tunnel. Who made this a military base? It was not a treasure of the Third Reich in the traditional sense.

The two were following Adjani, Weng Qianhui, Alice, and a bunch of bodyguards in the old town of Waubrich.

There are not many famous paintings. Considering the bank gold bricks shipped from Breslau, plus the gold hidden by the local bank and police station in Waubrich, Zhang Nan didn't think of these paintings as the looted wealth of Germany in World War II. .

"...More likely it is the original German cultural relics and artworks, like those 20 mark gold coins of Wilhelm II."

Regarding Zhang Nan's words, Nicole said: "That's even more annoying!

Charlie, you really have to look at Dürer's cat for yourself. If it is made public, there may be Germans who come to you and want to go back. "

Upon hearing this, Charlize Theron didn't care, and said, "I'll see for myself, we won't sell it."

In fact, plundering cultural relics is not particularly troublesome, because there are few victims!

Before the war, in Germany and Austria, which was the earliest annexation, the Nasdaq issued many targeted orders to Jews, such as "Except for wedding rings and gold teeth, Jews shall not own any precious metals." The order.

This command is impossible to operate completely, precious metals are small in size and easy to hide.

In addition to the fact that the occupation occurs first, and the specific conditions vary from place to place, even when the Jews are driven into the quarantine zone, they still hide a large amount of precious metals.

It wasn't until the Jews were sent to death camps and the guards asked other prisoners to pull the gold teeth from the Jews' corpses, that the Jews' wealth was finally wiped out!

Not only the Jews, but all ethnic groups and prisoners of war who were displeased by the Nas (river crabs) were treated in this way. People died. Except for a few too famous, other looted wealth was naturally unsubstantiated.

For example, in the banks in Switzerland, the wealth of countless rich Jewish people before the war became unowned. The original owners became either the fly ash in the crematorium or the dead bones in the mass grave.

Who knows how much they swallowed except the Swiss knowing it themselves? !

Good for the dead, for all treasure hunters, as long as you don't attract the attention of Jewish organizations and Israel in high-profile, and find the wealth left by the Jews killed in World War II, it is basically no trouble if the things are not too conspicuous.

But the artwork that originally belonged to the Germans did not become. Even if it was the artwork on the territory of Germany lost after the war, most of the aboriginal Germans were alive after being rushed to the hinterland of Germany.

It has been less than 50 years since the end of the war. Even if many of the parties died of old age, their children are basically still there. This is trouble.

There is no waste in the telecommunications room. Even the old-fashioned communication equipment is a favorite display item of various military museums. At least, Zhang Nan's own museum did not have such collections before.

Zhang Nan's mind is also very clear here, and it doesn't matter anymore. He said to Nicole: "The big deal is locked in the warehouse, locked for a few generations, and when you know it will die, then there will be no trouble."

People are afraid of time, and the world is afraid of pyramids. Except for a few cultural relics such as the Pyramid and the Great Wall, as the world grows, it will naturally become unknown.

Golden Zhang Nan doesn't matter, art is even more dispensable, but just like the natural reaction when he entered this room just now, he was quite interested in the World War II items here.

Several radio stations are rare, and that little Enigma cipher machine is even better. I have only seen the real thing in a museum in Moscow before.

"I remember that one was auctioned on the New York market last year, and it should have been sold for $220,000. The state of preservation is not as good as this one."

It was Mark who was speaking. He read this news from the newspaper last year, because the owner’s museum is dominated by guns, artillery, tanks and other munitions exhibits. Cryptographic machines and radio stations are relatively unpopular in the United States. Collecting military auctions, the museum and the owner’s agents did not pay special attention to the pre-sale advertisements.

Hearing what the big guy said, Joseph stepped forward, glanced at the table with the Enigma cipher machine, and went to a table on the other side of the room.

A large radio station, with a machine similar to a large electronic typewriter beside it, patted it, and said to Mark: "The Enigma cipher machine that appeared in the 1920s was actually already in the early 1940s. It's not decipherable anymore.

This one is powerful. It was put into use only in 43 years. A total of less than 200 Lorentz cipher machines were produced, which was a strategic-level cipher machine in the later period of the German war.

It is said that if it were not for the Germans to make a mistake when using it, the Allied forces would not even be able to decipher a letter of the telegram sent by this type of cipher machine!

The level is high, the number is small, and now much less than Enigma has been preserved.

Enig code can be used on German submarines during the war. The security level of this Lorentz cipher machine is much higher, and there is basically no possibility of being captured.

Even if it is defeated, this thing will be destroyed in advance. "

The old and new generations of strategic-level cryptographic machines co-exist in the same room. Needless to say, the level of this telecommunication room was quite high at the beginning!

As for what the two models are, it is estimated that the units that can contact here at that time are unlikely to have the highest-level Lorentz cipher machines.

After listening to Joseph's words, Mark used to smile seemingly honest, but under the light from one direction, this smile looked a little sullen!

The big man is not angry, who makes him laugh like this, the unfamiliar ones will surely be taken aback.

"Then this cipher machine is more expensive?"

Joseph shrugged, "Should, no transaction record, I don't know anyway.

Nowadays, only a handful of museums have this stuff, and they are all completely dismantled into parts after the war and then put together.

Demolition, demolition and research, all countries in the Allied Forces after the war did the same.

If you don't do it, you can't do it. At that time, the German industrial technology was at a level. If you understand it, and potential opponents have learned it, that's a big problem!

Zhang Nan heard the conversation between the two and interjected, and said to Mark: "Don't think about how much money, your boss, I won't sell it!

Don't open it to me after you go back, you know that you guy likes to manipulate these mechanical things.

This is a cryptographic machine, not a tank.

If you are interested and free, when the three bullet-proof Mercedes-Benz are repaired and refitted, you brothers don't hesitate to go.

Just like that, I left. "

Except for this telecommunications room, Alyosha was carrying the picture of Dürer's "Cat", and nothing else was brought out.

The explosion-proof door is closed at hand, and it will be ignored for the time being, and the things here can't be lost.

Going in the tunnel on the left, the light has been set up far away. Looking at it, there are cars parked on the side of the tunnel. From a distance, there are quite a lot of them. There are many underground entrances on both sides of the tunnel .

The tunnel past the fork of the road seven or eight meters away on the right has also pulled up the lights and went deep into it.

The tunnel was relatively clean. The guy who went to explore the road reported that he hadn't seen the vehicle, but there were many caves, equipment rooms, and storage rooms, and several wells were found.

After continuing along that tunnel for more than 600 meters, the tunnel has not yet been completed, and the wooden racks used for construction on the top of the cave are still there, and some of them are about to collapse.

Among the people who came in were several survey masters, and the guys who took the survey team to eat, all the tunnel areas that have been proven so far have been accurately measured.

After the marked scale coincides with the ground map, and with the castle hill above the head as a reference, Zhang Nan and others are very clear about where they are in this club.

The unfinished tunnel leads to the southeast, and the depth is at the bottom level of the hills over there, but it is still nearly one kilometer away from the outside world.

Perhaps there is another tunnel that is being excavated in the opposite direction, but it has not been discovered. Otherwise, digging this kilometer will be a waste of old nose!

The report said that the unfinished site looked a bit dangerous, and some wooden shelves were crumbling at the sight, and it took too long.

A large section of the tunnel there has not had time to lay the vent pipe, nor has it time to strengthen it with reinforced concrete, and the tunnel walls and the exposed rocks on the top are not particularly safe.

Ma Wei, who had gone to investigate this meeting just now, brought two talents back. They stayed there for a while and surveyed more carefully. He also brought back a piece of dust-stained tattered clothes, a very special piece of clothing.

It wasn't time that made the dress tattered, but it was tattered: this was a black and white striped pullover top with vertical stripes, which made everyone feel depressed.

"There are still a lot of construction tools, neatly arranged on one side, and we also found more than 20 shoes that are almost unmatched. They are basically tattered, but they should be relatively sturdy. They are labor shoes for work. .

There are still traces of bullet shots on the end of the rock wall. That section of the rock wall is very dry. If you look closely, you can still see a small amount of blood residue.

There were no remains, it should have been transported away at that time, and mass executions were carried out here, presumably in order not to attract the attention of ordinary German civilians outside. "

At the end of the World War, every country that participated in the war gradually became insufficient in labor due to the enlistment of young men and the exhaustion of the war.

This is the case in the Soviet Union, as well as in Britain and Germany, and even in the United States on another part of the world, shipyards are full of women workers.

At that meeting in 1944, it is said that a photographer named Ronald Reagan invited a photographer to take pictures at the military factory. He wanted to make a series of posters to boost the morale of the army and the people.

The photographer went to the production workshop of a drone factory. The drone was a new technology at the time, and people generally didn't know it well, so they wanted to find a factory worker to do some demonstrations nearby.

The selected was a charming 18-year-old girl named Norma Jane Baker. Later, when the photographer washed out the picture of her assembling the propeller on the drone and showed it to Ronald Reagan, Reagan was immediately attracted.

This immediately contacted the factory, invited the girl to work as a model part-time, and took a set of portraits.

The girl became popular, and many companies invited her to be a full-time model.

Then...

The girl who worked as a rivet worker in the military factory quickly changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, and she fascinated her for generations.

Monroe worked as a rivet worker in an ordnance factory, but some people said that the photos she installed propellers were taken for posters after "fire". At that time, her real job was a quality inspector for a parachute factory.

But no matter what, she was a worker in the military factory in 44.

Monroe was very lucky. If she were a welder in a shipyard or tank factory, she would not have become a heartthrob.

In the United States in 44 years, women were not rare among frontline workers in heavy industrial production.

In many parts of the United States, women are used as men and men are used as cattle, all for war.

As for the Soviet Union...

27 million people died, for the sake of victory and revenge, women were used as cattle. As for men, many of them were probably when they were already dead.

In the 43rd and 44th years, Germany basically maintained the "eight-hour work system" in the country, but it has really felt the problem of labor shortage. In the latter part of the war, it had to recruit some female workers and underage child labor. .

Even so, for the Aryans, it is still an "eight-hour, one-day-a-week rest work system."

Fourteen or five years old, it is also considered child labor.

In fact, not long after the war began, the shortage of labor appeared in Germany.

Because millions of young men joined the army, in order to make up for the shortage of labor, the Germans forced the prisoners in the concentration camps to work very early, but this plan was not thorough enough, and there were many contradictions.

For example, in Auschwitz, there will always be so-called "useful people" temporarily left with their lives to work, forcing them to work for the Third Reich.

What is a "useful person"?

All types of skilled workers are, and engineers are sometimes counted as well.

What about teachers, lawyers, musicians, civil servants, businessmen, writers?

Unless you encounter a perverted concentration camp commander who likes to listen to music, these people, including musicians, can be sent directly to the gas chamber!

For "useful" industrial workers, Na (river crab) Cui is not an eight-hour work system. Generally, they are forced to work to death. Anyway, they will be sent by a steady stream of people.

Of course, there are always a few when concentration camps need "useful people", otherwise Auschwitz should become the world's largest factory, not the most famous death camp.

Most of the industrial workers who were sent to concentration camps were killed in a short period of time.

The use of labor in the Third Reich was a very contradictory combination. On the one hand, domestic labor was increasingly scarce, and on the other, a thorough war mobilization was not implemented.

Moreover, while forcing the prisoners to work, the other side continued to kill Jews. From the early use of the "Slow Starvation to Death in Quarantine Area" method, to the mid-to-late mass killings and death camps "factory killings ".

It is very contradictory. People are isolated, not given enough food, and the Jews inside are slowly hungry, sick and die.

In that way, a small amount of food must be given, and most of the people in the quarantine area, most of the time, are unable to create labor results at all. Many of them are fighting hunger and disease.

As described in "Schindler's List", in Krakow, except for a few lucky people who can work in Schindler's enamel factory in Krakow, most people are slowly waiting to die.

Work?

At most, he was forced to sweep snow and move bricks.

This is a huge waste of labor by the Third Reich in the war!

Are all the Jews, prisoners of war, gypsies...are they being dealt with in death camps, or are they waiting to die slowly in the quarantine area?

No, there are still many prisoners who will be forced to screen and organize themselves, working in German factories and involuntarily serving the Third Reich.

Rather than as Schindler did at the beginning, the German capitalists ran to bribe the occupying army and asked for cheap labor, and then the capitalists made a fortune in the war.

When organizing the system, don't you serve the Na (river crab)?

That's death!

Even many military factories in the Third Reich had prisoners working in concentration camps. Those people were already skilled and skilled industrial workers, so they were temporarily able to survive.

The most extreme example is known from the historical photos that have been preserved today. In the huge underground military factory where V2 missiles were produced in Germany, there were many technical assemblers in prison uniforms.

There are prisoners in the missile manufacturing plant, and it is more normal to use prisoners with skillful skills or strong physical labor in places such as digging tunnels, paving bridges, and construction sites.

It is normal for the builders of the tunnel group that has been dug for two years to have prisoners transferred from the concentration camp. Zhang Nan, Joseph and others know about it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is possible that they have used five to ten back and forth. Ten thousand prisoners, prisoners of war!

There was a trace of depression in my heart. I didn't find any prisoners or prisoners of war laborers here before. This will suddenly appear...

At least 50,000 concentration camp workers are forced to work here, and their ending is only one: death!

In order to keep the secrets of this tunnel group, Na (harmony) will not let them live.

According to Ma Wei, the massacre at the end of the tunnel is at most hundreds of people. What about the others?

There are many death camps in Germany, and there are more than one camp like Auschwitz, and even dozens of sub-camps.

The prisoners and laborers came, and if they did not die, they might be sent back to the concentration camp.

Another possibility is that during the two-year construction of the tunnel network, it was not a short time that laborers from the concentration camp died of exhaustion, illness, and engineering accidents...

Five to one hundred thousand people have been slowly consumed in the past two years.

Regardless of the possible cause, the result is only one: those people are all dead!

The fact is also true. Nearly 50 years have passed, and none of the concentration camp workers who had been forced-labor here in the first place have talked about this.

They are all dead, and naturally there are no insiders. The Na (river crab) who built this place has done a very thorough job.

Looking at the prison uniforms of the concentration camp half a century ago, looking at the black and white straight lines that Na (river crab) had especially come up with, different from the common horizontal prison uniforms, Zhang Nan felt that this place had become gloomy.

At least 50,000, even 100,000 Jews and Soviet prisoners of war died here.

Zhang Nan raised his head and glanced at the top of the high tunnel. The castle he gave him was on the top. It was on a mass grave, and he was in the mass grave!

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