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Netherlands hunt for Nazi loot stash unsuccessful

(1 May 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Ommeren, Netherlands - 1 May 2023 1. People standing around hole being dug out by excavator 2. Researcher using metal detector 3. Close of metal detector and excavator ASSOCIATED PRESS The Hague, Netherlands - 24 January 2023 4. Zoom in of hand-drawn map that shows red-letter X supposedly marking spot where Nazi troops buried jewellery 5. Pan of map ASSOCIATED PRESS Ommeren, Netherlands - 1 May 2023 6. Zoom in of metal detector scanning ground 7. Researcher digging 8. Onlookers 9. Various of excavation, onlookers watching while researchers work 10. Close of researcher pulling out piece of metal from soil 11. Recovered metal on grass 12. Setup of archaeologist Martijn Bink 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Martijn Bink, archaeologist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: “I think there's minimal chance of finding anything. We dug three holes here of places where we could find through the magnetometer there was a signal, and none of these holes have found the treasure. So I think this is what we’ll do. We won't go any further.” 14. Close of researcher pulling out metal car wheel 15. Wheel, excavator in background 16. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Pieter Neven, alderman for Buren municipality: "A lot of people have come here to dig without permission creating a lot of inconvenience for the residents. The Historical Circle Kesteren, a regional historical association, devised a plan to conduct research with a good scientific team. As a municipality, we subsidise this organisation to carry out this research." ASSOCIATED PRESS The Hague, Netherlands - 24 January 2023 17. Various of map ASSOCIATED PRESS Ommeren, Netherlands - 1 May 2023 18. Researcher stepping out of hole 19. Wide of location STORYLINE: An officially sanctioned hunt for a stash of precious jewellery looted by Nazis during World War II and purportedly buried in a sleepy rural Dutch village has — like many previous searches — failed to unearth any treasure. Archaeologists and historians called into the village of Ommeren, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Amsterdam, pushed a detection device called a magnetometer along a row of fruit trees and across a field Monday morning and used a mechanical digger to excavate holes in the soggy soil. They were rewarded with little more than a World War II-era bullet, some twisted scrap metal, a crumpled car wheel and muddy boots. Municipal officials hope that the failure of the team — that included members of a local historical society and archaeologists from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — to find treasure will put an end to amateur sleuths visiting the village. “I think there’s minimal chance of finding anything,” said archaeologist Martijn Bink. “So I think this is all what we’ll do. We won’t go any further.” The local municipality helped fund the latest search after the publication early this year of a hand-drawn map with a red letter X supposedly marking the spot where Nazi troops buried jewellery stolen from a blown-up bank vault sparked a modern day treasure hunt that saw prospectors using metal detectors digging up sites around Ommeren despite a ban. “A lot of people have come here to dig without permission creating a lot of inconvenience for the residents,” said Pieter Neven of Buren Municipality. The treasure hunts began after the Dutch National Archive published a mountain of documents — as it does at the start of each year — including the map. It swiftly went viral. =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...