It’s a tale that might awaken your inner Indiana Jones and send you off in search of a buried Nazi hoard.

Documents have been released in the Netherlands, with ‘clues to a never-found treasure’.

A map which may show where Nazis buried loot worth millions of pounds is among the secret papers made available to the public for the first time.

It is believed that watches, cut and polished diamonds, and jewelry were swiped from a bank in the city of Arnhem by Hitler’s soldiers.

The map and other documents are thought to show the spot where the treasure has been hidden in the Betuwe region of Gelderland.

Several efforts were made to find the loot, but it was never uncovered, NL Times reported.

This means the treasure may have already bee unearthed by people, and never announced to the public.

Annet Waalkens, of the National Archives, told a Dutch broadcaster: ‘During the defense of Arnhem, there was an explosion at a branch of the Rotterdamsche Bank on the Velperweg.

‘German soldiers put loot in their coats at the scene.’

The rumour is that the loot was placed in ammunition boxes which were buried in Ommeren.

The Dutch state even brought a Nazi officer back to the Netherlands to try to find it, but without result.

The map and other documents are among thousands of items being made available by the country’s National Archives in The Hague from today.

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