An old map believed to mark the spot where German soldiers hid treasure worth millions of euros during World War Two sparked the imagination of amateur treasure hunters in the Netherlands this week
Armed with metal detectors and shovels, groups wandered through the fields surrounding rural Ommeren in the east of the country after the map was made public by the Dutch National Archive on Tuesday.
The research file which held the map was released this week as the maximum period of 75 years during which it could be held confidential had lapsed. "I see groups of people with metal detectors everywhere," 57-year old Jan Henzen told Reuters as he took a break from his own search.
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