A Dutch filmmaker has organized a series of digs for lost Nazi riches in a small Bavarian town — spurred by a sheet of music some claim is actually a coded treasure map.
Spiegel Online reports Leon Giesen, 51, has led three attempts in recent weeks to unearth the rumored buried loot in Mittenwald, near the Austrian border – after the town’s officials signed off on the hunt.
The strange sequence centers on the recent public revelation of an annotated score of the “March Impromptu,” a piece of music by composer Gottfried Federlein, the news agency reports.
According to Spiegel Online, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered his private secretary, Martin Bormann, during the final days of World War II to imbed a series of letters, figures and runes on the sheet music that would, when deciphered, lend the coordinates to a horde of buried treasure.
A military chaplain was then reportedly ordered to squire the score to someone in Munich – but it never arrived.
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