A U.S.-led team began searching for Nazi documents at the bottom of a lake in Austria. The search is being conducted by a diving robot that is taking video pictures of Lake Toplitz. It has long been believed that Nazi officials dumped documents, and perhaps also gold, into the lake in the last days of World War II.
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