War And Peace - Ww2 - The Nazi Austrian High Redoubt Poem by Paul Warren

At the end of WW 2 in 1945 in the German Alps
Did the Nazis have a plan for taking final scalps?
They built their tunnels in as a high mountain fortress
The plan was for their vengeance weapons as their best

So the SS started to concentrate in this place
Until Eisenhower split the Reich in two in the race
The Germans took Nazi Gold from the Berlin Bank vault
To save it from the Allies day and night bomber assault

When the Third Reich finally fell in the last battle
And the surviving Nazis tried to negotiate their life raffle
The Allies were able to recover most of the treasure
But rumours of some gold remained in their measure

Some SS officers survived and lived the high life
Like Otto Skorzeny who lived in Spain avoiding strife
It is said they used some of this Nazi ill gotten gold
And in the high Austrian mountain lakes the rest they hold.

© Paul Warren Poetry