A mechanical digger at the site where the Nazi loot was reportedly buried (Aleksandar Furtula/AP) — © Aleksandar Furtula An officially sanctioned hunt for a stash of precious jewellery looted by the Nazis during the Second World War and purportedly buried in a sleepy Dutch village has – like many previous searches – failed to unearth any treasure. Archaeologists and historians in the village of Ommeren, about 50 miles south-east of Amsterdam, pushed a detection device called a magnetometer along a row of fruit trees and across a field on Monday morning and used a mechanical digger to excavate holes...