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''Trying to dig in to her past in Tallinn, she hears about the legend of a U-boat which disappeared into the Baltic with tons of German gold bars on board... | ''Trying to dig in to her past in Tallinn, she hears about the legend of a U-boat which disappeared into the Baltic with tons of German gold bars on board... | ||
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| + | ''The legend comes from a now deceased drunken Estonian fishing trawler captain who used to tell a tale to bar acquaintance just before his death in the seventies. He was claiming to have sold stolen Russian diesel to a drifting German U-Boat at the end of the war and of having been paid in gold bars. One surviving bar acquaintance claims to having been shown a gold bar bearing a Swastika by the Captain. | ||
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Jouni meets John in Helsinki to deal with a local communication company. They later take a ferry to Tallinn, as Jouni's grandmother did with her mother 70 years earlier.
Trying to dig in to her past in Tallinn, she hears about the legend of a U-boat which disappeared into the Baltic with tons of German gold bars on board...
The legend comes from a now deceased drunken Estonian fishing trawler captain who used to tell a tale to bar acquaintance just before his death in the seventies. He was claiming to have sold stolen Russian diesel to a drifting German U-Boat at the end of the war and of having been paid in gold bars. One surviving bar acquaintance claims to having been shown a gold bar bearing a Swastika by the Captain.