Adolf Hitler’s £100 million gold stash has allegedly been found by a British diver over 70 years after the Nazi ship capsized
The MV Wilhelm Gustloff refugee ship was sunk by Soviets with three tonnes of stolen gold on board - now there are claims it has been located
TREASURE hunters have been trying to track down Hitler's hidden gold, which was allegedly sunk almost 70 years ago - now a Brit divers claims to have found it.
Legend has it that in the dying days of WWII, Nazi officers tried to smuggle three tonnes of swag out of Germany on board the refugee ship, the MV Wilhelm Gustloff.
And while many gold-seekers have claimed the bars, which would be worth around £100million today, are stashed in a bunker or a buried train, one man claims they're actually at the bottom of the Baltic Sea off Poland's coast.
During the 12 year dictatorship, the Nazis became famous for stealing valuable gems, metals, artworks and treasure, and it's thought some of these goods were stored on the Wilhelm Gustloff to be safety transported out of Germany.
But before the boat and the 10,600 passengers on board made it to safety, the Soviets sunk it, killing over 9,400 people in a shipwreck that was six times worse than the Titanic.
Now, former professional diver Phil Sayers, 61, told the Daily Star Online that the gold is thought to be laying 450m down on a seabed in the Baltic.
The 61-year-old claims to have found out about the secret location of the plunder after he met Rudi Lange, the ship's radio operator at the time.
Rudi was 17-years-old at the time and was responsible for sending out the SOS after the vessel was violently torpedoed by the Soviet submarine S-13.
The radio operator explained of how he saw crates of what seemed to be Nazi gold being loaded on the boat before they set up and after their meeting, Phil was inspired to write a novel about the incident.
In 1988, Phil, from Essex, who is now a managing director of diving support company LHM Healthcare, dived the wreck.
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He found that the 700ft liner had collapsed and the gold was probably covered by the thousands of tonnes of broken metal.
He told “Rudi Lange went down onto the quayside to have a smoke and just happened to be there when the gold bullion transport arrived.
“He did not know what was being taken on at first, but it was not until 1972 when he met up with another survivor – who was one of the guards who had been tasked with looking after the gold and he revealed what was in those huge cases."
The iconic ship now has international war grave status, which means no-one can dive within 50 metres of the wreck.
But this hasn't deterred divers keen to dig out the gold bars, in 2004 treasure hunters attempted to raid the shipwreck.