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King Alaric's Gold: The Hidden Treasure the Nazis Couldn't Find
2025-07-04 19:32:54 / MISTERE&KURIOZITETE
Ruling with an iron fist from the beginning of what came to be known as the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler was known for his brutality, along with his anti-Semitic and racist worldview that there was a “master race,” the Aryans, who were supposed to dominate the planet. This instigated what later became known as the Holocaust, a systematic genocide that resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews in Europe and 5 million other non-Jews.
While Hitler's unspeakable horrors, hateful ideologies, and reputation as a mad fascist dictator are well-known, many may not know that he was also a very superstitious man. As Stetson University professor Erik Krlander explained in a 2020 scholarly article published by The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Hitler's apparent obsession with the occult — which many other high-ranking Nazis also shared — prompted them to seek out certain mysterious objects.
These supposed artifacts were generally mentioned in ancient myths or strange tales. But one mission in particular – the search for the remains and treasure of the Visigothic king Alaric I, more commonly known as King Alaric – would prove fruitless.
But why were the Nazis so superstitious? And what did their belief have to do with the supposed treasure of King Alaric? And if it existed, why did the Nazis fail to discover it? Leaders of the Nazi regime such as Adolf Hitler and SS leader Heinrich Himmler were obsessed with astrology and mysticism.
They often carried with them personalized astrological predictions as well as a collection of mystical objects, which would prompt them to embark on treasure hunts across Germany for ancient artifacts. Thus, Himmler launched an expedition in 1940 to Spain to find the Holy Grail.
Himmler also ordered German archaeologists to search for the hammer attributed to Thor, the main deity of Norse mythology. It can be said that the latter was more involved in the concepts of mysticism and esotericism than Hitler. These concepts supported his belief in the existence of a supreme German race.
Himmler often read ancient history and Germanic myths and aimed to build a new world, founded on a mixture containing parts of Christian and Gnostic teachings, as well as elements of pre - Christian Germanic culture.
He even described the SS as representatives of the Teutonic Knights, an order formed in Europe during the Crusades, and which had many similarities to the Knights Templar. The Nazi regime's search for these ancient treasures also led them to the failed mission to discover the treasure of King Alaric.
At the end of the 4th century AD, tensions were boiling between the Western Roman Empire and the leaders of the Gothic tribes. At that time, Western Rome was a precarious place compared to the era of Julius Caesar and the Emperor Augustus.
To avoid a possible invasion after what historians call the Gothic War, the Goths agreed to settle in the Balkans, but as allies, not as official citizens of the empire. Unfortunately, this allowed the Roman Empire to exploit the Goths, especially when it came to compulsory recruitment into the Roman Army.
In 395, when forces led by the Visigoth king Alaric I launched a war against their Roman overlords, they did not stop until 410 AD, after several failed negotiations and repeatedly violated truces. Alaric successfully attacked Rome twice.
But what attracted the Nazis to King Alaric had very little to do with historical facts. Their obsession with King Alaric had to do with the Visigothic leader's lost treasure, which supposedly disappeared after the king's death in the early 5th century during a military campaign.
Before Hitler became leader of Germany, the German economy was in chaos due to its defeat in World War I. Upon coming to power in 1933, Hitler helped revitalize Germany's financial system through his military-industrial complex, and unify Germany against its disenfranchised Jewish population.
While the Nazis seized large amounts of gold from the Jews, they wanted even more of the rare metal, and this led to the search for the lost treasure of King Alaric. Hitler assigned Himmler and his SS group to search for and find King Alaric's tomb, where they believed his vast wealth was also located.
They assumed that Alaric's resting place was somewhere near the Calabrian city of Cosenza in southern Italy, where various historical accounts had hinted that it was his burial place. But despite working with a team of archaeologists, Himmler was unable to find either Alaric's tomb or his treasure before the fall of the Third Reich in 1945.
But that doesn't mean he isn't being sought by other explorers. In 2015, Italian archaeologists from the University of Calabria began their search to find the treasure of King Alari. But to date they have not discovered either the tomb or the treasure of the great Visigoth leader. / Grunge – Bota.al
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