10 Unsolved Mysteries from World War II

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more about them in a bit while the second world war came to a decisive end more than seven decades ago many of its biggest mysteries remain unsolved to this day from Lost Legendary Treasures like the Amber Room to missing Crews that disappeared Without a Trace number 10. the Battle of Los Angeles the Battle of Los Angeles was the name given by the media to an alleged Japanese air attack against Los Angeles on February the 25th 1941. it came about three months after Pearl Harbor and one day

after a Japanese submarine attacked oil installations near Santa Barbara it

began early in the morning triggering anti-air defense is a mobilization of

troops across the city unlike the coastal Ray the whole incident ended in

the death of two civilians across the city along with damage to a few

buildings due to Falling anti-aircraft shells and artillery until now we don't

know who or what triggered the series of events that day the official version

denies any Japanese involvement though many people reported seeing multiple enemy planes in the sky before the supposed attack a few others claimed that they saw a giant blimp in the sky earlier that day though according to experts it's highly unlikely as Japan stopped using blimps after the first world war 9. blood Banner the story of the blutfan or blood Banner began with the 1923 Nazi coup attempt in Munich also known as the beer hall pitch by the beginning of the second world war flag had reached a mythical status in Nazi circles as it was allegedly stained with the blood of those killed during the push and Adolf Hitler considered it a sacred relic of the movement it was usually kept at the brown house the headquarters of the Nazi party in Munich and was only brought out for special occasions like Infamous Nazi rallies we know that the blood flag was moved to

various locations throughout the war to keep it safe from Allied bombs though its fate after the war is a bit less clear some believe it was secretly taken as a souvenir by U.S forces at the end of the war but there's no way to prove that's certain despite numerous attempts due located by Allied countries the blood flag's location is currently unknown number 8. the Amber Room the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union resulted in the theft of thousands of works of art one of them was the Amber Room also sometimes called the Eighth Wonder of the World created in the 18th century by Andreas schulterer and Gottfried Wolfram it was an intricately

designed chamber made with Amber panel's gold leaf and various precious stones it total the room covered about 180 square feet with over six tons of Amber and other pressure stones used in its construction during the war the Amber Room was dismantled and transported to konasburg or modern-day kalingrad by the invading German Army sadly that's the

last anyone ever saw of it and the fate of the room after that point is still a

mystery some believe that it was destroyed during bombing raids While

others say that it was hidden by the Germans or even stolen by Soviet

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search and rescue effort no trace of the crew or the wreckage was ever found some witnesses claimed that two of the members were seen parachuting out of the plane before the crash further adding to the mystery the circumstances of the accident have since inspired a bunch of

conspiracy theories even if there's no evidence to back them up some say that the big stoop crew was captured and executed by the Japanese though they could as well have lost their way in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean 6. The D-Day crossword Leonard door was a crossword compiler for the Daily Telegraph in 1944 as well as the prime suspect one of the most serious security scares of the war in May 1944 some of his daily crosswords featured the exact codes used by the Allies in the upcoming Normandy Landings they included Utah and Neptune which stood for the two Landing beaches and mulberry a code name for some of the equipment to be used during The Invasion the incident invited a direct visit by MI5 as they suspected the door was a secret German agent passing information through crossword puzzles it previously attracted their

attention back in August 1942 when an answer in one of his puzzles spelled out Dieppe one day before the Dieppe raid on the occupied Northern French Coast ultimately it was established that door may have had nothing to do with Germany or Espionage and the appearance of the

codes was just a coincidence 5. The Disappearance of Raul Wallenberg Raul rallenberg was a Swedish businessman and Diplomat still remembered for his efforts to save Jewish refugees in Hungary during the war he was Sweden's special Envoy to Hungary in 1944 and he used his position to issue protective passports and establish safe houses for Jews across the nazi-occupied Zone because the number of lives he saved Wallenberg is often referred to as the Swedish Schindler sadly we don't know much about what happened to him after the war in January 1945 as the Red Army approached Budapest while Hamburg was arrested by Soviet authorities on suspicions of Espionage despite numerous attempts by the Swedish government to secure his release Wallenberg was ever seen or heard from again the Soviet government has at times claimed that he died of a heart attack in 1947 while in prison though many believe that he was executed by the KGB 4. rommel's gold rommel's gold refers to a stash of gold jewels and other valuables allegedly stolen by the German Africa Corps during World War II the treasure said to be worth billions of dollars is believed to have been hidden by the German general Irwin Rommel himself possibly somewhere in the deserts of North Africa before they retreat in 1943. while many people have attempted to search for it in the years since the exact location of this famed treasure has never been found many believe that it was buried somewhere in the vast deserts of North Africa though it could also have been shifted or transported to Hidden vaults in Germany or Argentina of course there's the possibility that the treasure was only a rumor started by Rommel in self for now bromel's gold remains one of the most elusive even if persistent Mysteries of the war 3. peaking man fossils before the war started China was home to the famous Peking man fossils belonging to one of the earliest known hominid species from the homo erectus family discovered in the 1920s in the zolcodian region near Beijing China these fossils were evidence of early human presence in Asia and were hence considered an important piece of the puzzle in the field of human evolution when the Japanese Army Advanced on Beijing in 1941 the fossils were packed up and shipped to the United States for safe keeping sadly they never reached their destination and their fate has remained unknown while something that they're buried under the American Embassy in Beijing others believed that they were instead captured by Chinese civilians during Transit 2. the ghost train as the war started to come to an end in Europe rumors of looted Nazi Treasures gained traction across the front one of the most infamous Lost Treasures of the war is now known as the Nazi ghost train a mythical lost train remember to be Laden with billions of dollars worth of gold artwork and other valuable items the legend is particularly strong in Poland where people occasionally claim to have found parts of the treasure it's believed that the train disappeared into the vast underground Railway Network built by the Nazis in Poland during the war though no concrete evidence of its

existence has ever been found According to some while the train might have existed at some point it was eventually destroyed or taken away by Nazi officials during their a retreat back to Germany number one who turned in Anne Frank Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl living in hiding in Amsterdam for the better part of the second world war her accounts have life during the conflict were later turned into the Diary of a young girl which remains one of the most famous first-person descriptions of the war however many parts of her overall story still remain unexplained including

the circumstances of her arrest Ann and her family were captured by the Nazis in August 1944 and she along with her mother was sent to the bergen-belsen concentration camp where they died within the next few months we know that she was arrested after an informants tip to the gestapo and is still unclear who that informant was some believe that it

was a neighbor who became suspicious of the Frank family's activities many potential suspects have been identified over the years but as the case is so old it's no longer possible to question or prosecute them foreign