Weird War Two

EBEN-EMAEL, BELGIUM - Sam Willis and Robert Joe stand in front of a gun casemate at Belgium?s Fort Eben Emael, one of the biggest and most formidable fortresses in the world at the time in World War II.

WARSAW, POLAND - Each bar of gold weighs 27.5 pounds (12.5 KG) and is worth approximately half a million US dollars.

BEIJING - Robert Joe visits the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention to learn more about the deadly plague bacteria and the science behind the horrific research of Japan's Unit 731.

WARSAW, POLAND - Each bar of gold weighs 27.5 pounds (12.5 KG) and is worth approximately half a million US dollars.

(v.l.n.r.) Sam; Robert Joe

Sam Willis and Robert Joe stand at the ruins of Unit 731. To protect the secret of what went on there, much of the compound was destroyed by their own troops at the end of WWII.??(photo credit: FIC Singapore/Lau Hon Meng)

HARBIN, CHINA - Ruins of the former headquarters of Unit 731, where the Imperial Japanese army conducted horrific research during WWII.

HARBIN, CHINA - Ruins of the former headquarters of Unit 731, where the Imperial Japanese army conducted horrific research during WWII.

FLORENCE, ITALY - RJ shines a flashlight as he investigates the mystery of priceless artworks discovered at Montegufoni Castle at the end of WW2.

(v.l.n.r.) Sam; Robert Joe

OSWIECIM, POLAND - Robert Joe is investigating the story of gold and other valuables looted from Auschwitz concentration camp victims. 1.3 millions people: Jews, Poles, Romany, Soviet POWs and other nationalities were endured forced labor here.

WEWELSBURG CASTLE, GERMANY - Sam Willis and Robert Joe stand on the Black Sun at Wewelsburg castle, a symbol now used by many neo-Nazis in Germany as a substitute for the banned swastika.

CHIN STATE, MYANMAR - Sam and Robert Joe stand on an overturned M3 Lee tank, which was used by the British to great effect in order to change the fortunes of the Burma Campaign.??(photo credit: FIC Singapore/Lau Hon Meng)

HAMBURG, GERMANY - Robert Joe visits a historic medicine hall at University Medical Centre Hamburg-­Eppendorf to learn from an addiction researcher what a World-War-II-performance-enhancing drug called Pervitin could affect a Nazi soldier in a battlefield.

WEWELSBURG CASTLE, GERMANY - Wewelsburg Castle, Heinrich Himmler's personal castle, is where Nazi occultism is rumored to have taken place.

WEWELSBURG CASTLE, GERMANY - Wewelsburg Castle, Heinrich Himmler's personal castle, is where Nazi occultism is rumored to have taken place.

FLORENCE, ITALY - Sam and RJ approach Montegufoni Castle near Florence, Italy.

(v.l.n.r.) Sam; Robert Joe

MITTENWALD, GERMANY - Sam Willis and Robert Joe are using metal detectors to see what they can find in the mountains of Mittenwald, Germany. In April 1945, the Nazi transported 730 gold bars from Berlin to Mittenwald to hide from the advancing Allies. It was believed that some went missing. This story gives a hope for treasure hunters that hidden gold is still out there to be found.