Precious works of art. The fabled Amber Room of Russia’s Catherine Palace. Crates of gold. The hunt for lost Nazi treasure is ...

The treasure hunt began this year when the Dutch National Archive published — as it does every January — thousands of documents for historians to pore over. Most of them went largely unnoticed.

The treasure hunt began this year when the Dutch National Archive published — as it does every January — thousands of documents for historians to pore over. Most of them went largely unnoticed.

Detail of the map showing a cross-section of the road where the Nazi loot was reportedly buried in Ommeren, near Arnhem, at the National Archive of the Netherlands in The Hague, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.