Hunt for Nazi loot in Dutch village ditched

The hunt for alleged World War II Nazi loot in central Netherlands has been called off after nothing was found.

“We have concluded that there is no Nazi treasure in Ommeren,” Birgit van Aken-Quint, spokeswoman for the nearby Buren municipality, told AFP news agency. 

“We do assume that the treasure was once buried in Ommeren, but that it has been removed at some stage,” she said.

Treasure hunters flocked to the small hamlet after the Dutch National archive made sketches of a hand-drawn…