UK-based company Advanced Marine Services thinks it has found £100m worth of Nazi gold aboard a shipwreck in Icelandic waters. The mysterious chest is aboard the SS Minden at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
AMS claim that the box contains four tons of metal, and is applying to the Icelandic government for a permit to extract the chest and return it to Britain.
Just weeks into the Second World War, the SS Minden was travelling from South America to Germany when it was intercepted by British warship HMS Calypso. The German crew scuttled the ship rather than let it fall into enemy hands.
Records show that the SS Minden left Brazil five days after war broke out, and rumours at the time claimed cargo was loaded by officials by Banco Germanico, a subsidiary company of the German Dresdner bank.
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