Discovery Channel - Treasure Hunters (2000) Part 11 The Treasure of the Desert Fox

Treasure - buried, lost or sunk, in the depths of the ocean - has fascinated countless treasure hunters throughout the world, in all lands and seas, for centuries. This series follows the trails to the sites of legendary treasures, presents the winners and losers in the hunt for treasures trove. The films document the historical events surrounding certain treasures and relate the dreams, dramas and adventures of obsessed treasure hunters who shun no risk in their search for the “pot of gold”, and seamlessly weaves together history and legend to present compelling tales of real life human quests.

Part 11: The Treasure of the Desert Fox The legendary treasure of General Rommel. A former SS man breaks the silence and tells what happened then. The Nazis offered northern Italian Jews the opportunity to buy their own freedom. Gold collected in this way was stored in the vaults of the Bank of Tunis. They were brought in lead coffins on board a German speedboat and then at the Corsican coast transferred to an old Italian fishing boat. Allied bombers fired the boat, causing it to sink. Thus there near Corsica ended an estimate sixty thousand, six hundred pounds of gold on the seabed.