The Real Kelly's Heroes - GIs Stole Huge Nazi Gold Stash

Kelly's Hero's - The look on Don Rickles face when he looked the bar of gold was priceless .

“Sir, we found a 1000 tons of gold!” “What, you say you found a 100 pounds of gold?” “Yes sir, we found 10 ounces of gold.”

I´ve lived most of my adult life in these areas mentioned in Bavaria and Austria and will soon be retiring here. Thanks for giving me a great new hobby here : gold hunting.

TY Dr. Felton. Such a moral dilemma. If I was in control of GOLD bars of unknown ownership ....who will miss it ?

My Uncle fought under Hodges thru Germany in April-May 1945 ending up in Leipzig. His platoon was tipped off by a German that there was a fortune in a safe in a town bank. He and his buddies blew open the door of bank safe with a satchel charge. They were experts and did it just right. No gold in the bank vault but it was full of booze and the explosion didn't break a bottle. The platoon stayed drunk for a week. Might be the true story behind "Kelly's Heroes".

My favorite film line of all time came from this film: "Why don't you knock it off with those negative waves!? Why don't you dig how beautiful this place is? Why not say something hopeful and nice for a change?"

I heard a similar story back in the early 80's. A retired Army Master Sergeant I met while stationed in San Antonio talked about some of the stuff that happened during the War. He was assigned as member of a Military Police unit in Germany at the end of the war. (he had been a Cop before the war.). A few weeks after the war ended, one of the local Army units (Platoon size of about 35 men) didn't report in and a squad sent to find them only found some abandoned vehicles. They thought that German Fanatics (Werewolves) had got them. During the investigation they found no signs of them or any bodies. The Army eventually reported them as MIA and notified their families. About three years later the MP was assigned to a base in Virginia and got a call from local police about a guy they caught stealing a car. When they searched him, they found a bag with an expired military ID, plus the guy had no driver's license. They thought he might be a deserter. So, when he showed up to talk to the guy he recognized as one of the guys from photos of the unit that had disappeared in 1945. Turns out he had just gotten in the country as crew member on a freighter. He was broke and was trying to steal a car to meet one of his old war buddies for some money. Eventually, the story came out that these guys had found an abandoned German truck with a bunch of British, American, and German paper money and gold coins. They buried the German money and took the rest. They split up and headed out of the war zone thru various means and bribes. Most of the guys didn't go home and the few that did were eventually caught. Only a couple of guys were charged with desertion (an officer and a senior NCO) and the rest were dishonorably discharged (the uncaught soldiers were dishonorably discharged in absentia). Many of the other guys were never found or the Army just didn't care after a while. He said the investigation estimated that the total haul was probably in the neighborhood of a couple of million dollars in Pounds, Dollars, and Gold Coins. It's also possible that some of that money may have been counterfeit manufactured by the Germans. An interesting story I could never verify, but some of the stuff I heard later made me think he was telling the truth.

Today in honor of Donald Sutherland's passing & the entire cast of Kelly' Heroes.

Mark’s channel is 110% better than the history channel and you always walk away with more knowledge of history than you had before. Keep up the GREAT work!

"And all you need to do for an equal share...is crank that turret around and blow a hole through that door." (Cut to door) BOOM!!

There was a character in Kelly’s Hero’s named Fisher. He was the one who did the instant math on the value of the gold going on the truck.

Dr. Felton is one of the top historians in the world and in my opinion the preeminent WW2 historian, I always find his documentaries interesting and extremely well researched.

I remember a story from a veteran at our Legion Post about the treasure found in a cave in Germany. He was posted as a guard, which he hated because the other men in his company were basically just goofing off in their barracks. But he related to us the image of thousands of sacks of coins, gold bars, and jewelry plus hundreds of paintings. General Eisenhower even visited the cave to see the sight. He was asked if he took anything for himself, but he said it never occurred to him. Which was probably why he had been elected our treasurer!

Dr. Felton posts a banger once again. Will this man ever stop? I hope not!

My great grandfather was Alfred singleton, same person mentioned in this video. During the war he once saved his entire half track crew when he noticed a German cannon aiming at their truck and he told the driver to reverse, resulting in the cannon shell hitting the engine of the half track instead of the crew compartment. Because of his actions all of the crew were unharmed except great grandpa was injured by the explosion. He earned a Purple Heart for his heroic actions.

I came for a clip of ' stop with the negative vibes Moriarty ' and ended up here. Thank you Mark.

You had me at Kelly’s Heros.

My great uncle was in WW1 and he used to tell a story about a bank that had been hit in France with artillery. They were marching through a rainstorm that slowly turned into sunshine coming up to a small town. He saw shimmering on the road and it looked completely solid gold. Closer they got and it turned out to be thousands of gold coins blasted onto the cobblestone streets. He didn’t take any coins and the troops were closely watched as they marched through. Supposedly they didn’t care much after a huge battle.. (muse Argonne?)they were just happy to be alive.

Let's not forget the story of the British Collector that was restoring his T55 he got from Iraq and found a few gold bars in one of the fuel tanks.

My grandfather served in the 10th armored division. And he actually talked about things such as this. Unfortunately nothing was ever recorded when he told his stories but damn he had me under his spell when he told these stories.