Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Pettneu

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1945

And then of course the gold stories. Of course you know this has nothing at all, if I disclose it from my position as a child look. Suddenly I saw people who - as was customary according to today's understanding of us - are so poorly dressed goldbehangen came suddenly. The "old" mother, she was then maybe 55 or 60, with a tiara hair. The son has since been bought a car, the first car I've ever seen in the village. She is sitting in the rear and has graciously herausgewinkt, almost like the English Queen. Or others from this family, then - if put in Gschäft, has therefore come to the grocery store, has her hands placed on the console as wide, so you have seen the rings. I then asked my parents and then, it has been found that these people are part of the gold found by the Hungarian Arrow Cross wanted to transfer the 1945 end of military operations from Hungary to Switzerland. From this known Gold Train, which is stuck in Salzburg, a small branch has come into the valley punch. The French were already advancing from the direction in Vorarlberg have remained simply put simply have buried at prominent points of these boxes. And one has observed the grounds that it is on the field was to clear the field after an avalanche. An urgent need has taken him into the bushes and it just found a place to bury what was obviously fresh. With his brothers he has then eight cases - sometimes we talk about nine? with about 300 kilos of jewels, gold, but also concentration camp gold and jewels, and other such Tabattieren of platinum with diamonds - they simply had the Hungarian Jews, the relevant transactions were completely removed at the end. And then have the same even know these sources where they could implement in the money. Then they are just - as already mentioned - so come with a motorcycle, dressed appropriately and are herumgfahren. And in a short time were of course involved a number. Finally 22, according to the protocols of the trial in Innsbruck, the Tiroler Tageszeitung, which I will get many years later. There were then 22 defendants. But that one has of course not all knew as a child. That's part of my childhood, but it is the magical part. Because suddenly Schnann, this 250-souls-nest, reached significance. A conductor, who then coined the term "the golden city". I've heard myself. It used to be so proclaimed the stations. And in Schnann was just one track, and as the train stopped. A Bahnwächterhäuserl. As in Hungary, since - as in the film. And since he has turned out swinging elegantly and has declared: "Schnann? the golden city "Mah, which has done good to me. And then later we have made a film that has the title "The Golden City".