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Austria to ban diving for "Nazi diamonds" in Toplitz Lake

Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the last chief of the Reich Main Security Office, is said to have sunk the secret loot in the remote lake high in the Alps, 60 miles from Salzburg in western Austria, as Allied forces swept through Europe at the end of the Second World War.

Previous dives have dredged up hundreds of thousands of pounds of forged British currency and boxes of top secret SS documents. Hans Fricke, a German scientist, even discovered a new bacteria, called the "worm of Toplitz Lake".

But now Austrian nature experts are demanding a 99-year ban on all future dives because the constant hunt for treasure is disturbing local wildlife.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)