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Published:
The Merkers Salt Mines
New novel by Dan Watton, Retired Lt. Commander, U.S. Coast Guard
About the
Book:
Long buried on the German-Austrian border is an old bunker that contains
a fortune in Nazi gold guarded by the skeletal remains of two Waffen
SS soldiers. The gold was destined for shipment by submarine to Argentina,
during the closing days of WWII, when U-Boat Captain Gunther Kruger
stole it from his Nazi leaders. Sergeant Josef Beyer, Gunther’s cousin,
and Lieutenant Willhelm Dietrich, a German Army engineer, buried it
just as General Patton’s 3rd Army surged into Southern Germany during
the spring of 1945. Before Willi and Josef could meet up with Gunther,
they were ambushed by an American scout patrol led by Sergeant Rolland
Summers, who learns about the gold. Gunther later finds and murders
Rolland in his quest to find the treasure. But Rolland dies with the
secret. The search is on again in 1980 when Rolland’s son, Vietnam veteran
Sam Summers, finds an old briefcase in the attic of his deceased grandmother’s
Massachusetts home. Written in gold letters on the black leather briefcase
is the swastika of Hitler’s Third Reich and the name… "OBERLIEUTENANT
WILLHELM DIETRICH."
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