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Blake, Jeb, and guest Ken Hite talk about the search for Nazi Plunder - lost treasure and art following WWII.

Thanks to Ken Hite for joining us on this episode. You can find a huge archive of Ken's excellent podcast (with Robin Laws) titled Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff. Highly recommended! Ken's also a prolific author and game designer and if you like this episode and weird war history, you might especially enjoy his Osprey (fiction) book on Nazi Occultism.  Also, if you enjoy vampires and Jason Bourne-style spy action, you should check out Night's Black Agents.

Discussed in this Episode:

About this rocket Jeb was asking about: It appears to say ПО РEЙXCTAГУ

"Po Ree-stah-gu"

Also, it appears to be a BM-XY launch system (not sure what values go in X or Y). Apparently, like the Brits called the V weapons "buzz bombs" because of their peculiar sounds, the Germans called this Russian rig "Stalin's Organ" because of its sounds. 

Per Ken, it translates into either "On to the Reichstag!" or possibly "to the Reichstag" like a package address."

 

Walter Horn - a "monuments man"

Martin Bohrman - a Nazi. Hitler's secretary and confidant. 

Jeb, haunted by WORLD AT WAR series intro.

Austria's Lake Toplitz (pronounced To-Plitz-Say)  was a treasure dump - found in 1957

In Florence - Rudolpho Siviero continues the hunt... Rodolfo Siviero ( 1911 - 1983 )

Nimoy Fashion Alert

Austrian fire-men (and treasure hunters) search a lake.