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Silent witness: The incredible tale of a 60s supermodel, a German aristocrat, a plot to kill Hitler and a crumbling 300-year-old palace

Silent witness: Set deep in the heart of the Polish lake district of Mazury and originally called Steinort, for 300 years the palace had been a seat of splendour for an aristocratic East Prussian family called von Lehndorff-Steinort. Kalbar/TFN

Behind the walls of this dilapidated old palace in a remote corner of Poland, lies one of the lesser-known intrigues of the 20th century. Left to ruin after WWII, the race is now on to save Sztynort palace. TFN’s Kirsty Hardial and Dagmara Leszkowicz go on the trail of the place that time forgot.

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Janusz Chabior and his actress wife  Agata Wątróbska took in the adorable pooch called Henio after finding him in a Polish shelter where he had been sent from Ukraine.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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