Random Totally Weird Nazi Mysteries That Will Freak You Out (12 items)

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  (#8) Did Hitler Kill His Niece, Geli Raubal?

  Angela (Geli) Raubal was the daughter of Hitler's half sister, Angela. Hitler first met the 19 year old in 1928 when he employed his half sister at his summer mountain retreat, the Berghof. Nineteen years her elder, Hitler quickly convinced Geli to move into his Munich apartment. There, Hitler controlled her social life, their interaction marked by conflict and dysfunction. Whether their relationship ever became sexual is a controversial contention, but gossip concerning perverted demands by "Uncle Alf" has reverberated throughout history.

  On September 18, 1931, Hitler allegedly stormed out of his apartment after yet another violent argument with his niece. The next morning neighbors discovered Geli, dead, shot through the heart. The first police official on the scene, Heinrich Muller, pocketed a letter Geli had been working on when she died. It was ruled that she had taken her own life, and there was no inquest or autopsy. Muller, however, went on to act as chief of the Gestapo.

   
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  (#1) Where Did The Amber Room Go?

   

  The Amber Room was an elaborately designed hall in the Soviet Union's Catherine Palace located near St. Petersburg. A gift to Peter the Great from Germany, this unique ornamentation featured amber panels, gold leaf, and mirrors. The rapid advance of the Nazi invasion of 1941 prevented the Russians from removing the panels to safety. They were quickly taken by the Germans and transported to Konigsberg, East Prussia. Initially, the Amber Room was placed on public display at the Konigsberg Castle, but was hidden in anticipation of the 1945 Soviet advance.

  While this art masterpiece was never located after the war, most experts believed it was obliterated during the intense shelling that destroyed the Konigsberg Castle. Persistent rumors about the current location of the Amber Room have never panned out.

   
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  (#10) Was The SS Uniform Designed By Hugo Boss?

  The good news for those with a few of Hugo's ties in the closet: Boss did not design the striking black couture of Himmler's Death's Head cult. Unfortunately, there's more to the story.  

  The original Hugo Boss opened a clothing factory near Stuttgart in 1924 and supplied the Nazi party from its earliest days with predesigned clothing from templates. Boss supplied similar types of clothing to other organizations, but he also joined the Nazi Party in 1931. Business boomed and Boss advertised his firm as an official supplier of SS Uniforms. Business got even better when Boss received contracts to manufacture military uniforms. During wartime he employed forced labor in deplorable conditions that were ultimately sanctioned in postwar proceedings. Boss died in 1948, but, in 2011, the fashion firm publicly apologized for Boss's Nazi sympathies and ties.
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  (#3) Himmler And The Lost SS Rings From The Secret Castle At Wewelsburg

  In the early '30s, the forbidding medieval castle at Wewelsburg, Germany became a focal point for Heinrich Himmler and the SS. Himmler believed the castle was an appropriate location to associate himself with the Teutonic kings who had successfully conquered the Slavs. As he already felt he was a reincarnation of a ninth-century Saxon king, Himmler wished to add to this cult of personality by combining ritual and medieval ceremony at Wewelsburg.  

  He constructed one chamber with 12 pillars and a gas jet for an "eternal flame." Another in the basement was festooned with a giant ornate swastika. The latter was ultimately meant for use as a cremation spot for SS soldiers killed in action. 
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  (#2) What Happened To Heinrich Müller?

  Heinrich Müller was a senior Nazi Gestapo official who was involved in coordinating political persecution and the Holocaust. He served as an intermediary between Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann and was an attendee at the infamous Wannsee Conference, the formal adoption of the Final Solution. He personally supervised the arrests and interrogations of the suspects involved in the July 20th plot to kill Hitler.

  Last seen in the Bunker on May 1, 1945, Muller was never located. Over time various rumors have circulated concerning collaboration with the Soviets, secret burials in various locations and even a successful escape. He remains the most senior Nazi official to remain officially "missing."
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  (#12) Is The Nazi 'Ghost Train' Hidden In A Tunnel in Poland?

  As the Nazis retreated from territory conquered early in World War II, they were always faced with the same quandary: what to do with all of the valuables, artwork, and jewelry taken from the conquered? In Poland, it is rumored that in the final days of the war, local German officials near Breslau (now Wroclaw) stuffed an armored train with such booty and headed toward secret tunnels located in the Owl mountains. Somewhere along the way the train disappeared, rumored to be sealed in a mountain tunnel in an unknown location.

  Locals have hunted the Ghost Train for many years to no avail, but an official claim by two treasure hunters in 2015 rekindled the mystery. Through a lawyer, Piotr Koper and Andreas Richter claimed to have seen the train and its gold and have promised to lead officials of the Polish town of Walbrzych to its location, in return for 10 percent of the spoils.

  In December 2015 researchers from Krakow University of Science and Technology said there was no evidence the train exists at the site, but Koper and Richter remain convinced.

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