The second most powerful man in Nazi Germany stole billions worth of art and treasure. The team is on the trail of sunken gold and missing masterpieces looted from Holland.
In 1943, the Nazis looted $50 million in gold from the Jewish community in Djerba, Tunisia. The team tracks the loot to a dive site off Corsica, a pawnshop in Germany to the family of an escaped Nazi in South America.
Hitler had a dream to amass the world’s greatest art collection; it was a dream that became Europe’s nightmare. In this episode, the team investigates how Hitler oversaw the theft of thousands of art treasures from across Europe. This episode also features an incredible discovery: a work of art that once hung on the wall of Hitler’s dining room and missing for over 70 years.
Looted gold was the lifeblood of the Nazi War machine. The team investigates how much was stolen and where it ended up, uncovering the chilling story of the Canada Commando and gold stolen at Auschwitz.
The team investigates the systematic looting of Paris during four years of Nazi occupation and tracks missing treasures to Berlin and Switzerland.
The team searches for the most valuable item stolen by the Nazis: the painting Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael.
In 1941, Nazi armies capture the palace of Catherine the Great and steal the contents of her legendary Amber Room. Four years later, Soviet armies capture Berlin and loot thousands of art treasures which disappear behind the Iron Curtain.
The team searches for $1.5 billion in gold stolen from the Bank of Italy, and missing art from the museums of Florence.