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The Kaiseroda salt mine complex near Merkers stored over 400 million Reichsmarks worth of Nazi gold (equivalent to 2 billion 2021 €), [5] thousands of crates of artworks that had been transferred from the Berlin State Museums for safekeeping, [6] and many stolen works of art.
Nazi treasures in Merkers Salt Mine Eisenhower inspects stolen artwork. The Merkers area of the municipality is famous for its salt mine, where large amounts of Nazi gold, and many stolen works of art were discovered by the United States Army in 1945. General Dwight D. Eisenhower himself went into the mine in April 1945 in order to examine the ...
They lie near the village of Merkers. The mines have a long history of salt extraction, and hold the record for concealing large amounts of Nazi gold during World War II. A hundred tons of gold and many works of art presumed to be stolen were discovered by the liberating United States Army in 1945.
Art Recovery International, a company focused on locating and recover 300-year-old painting stolen by an American soldier during World War II returned to German museum Skip to main content
For Claire, a now-70-year-old Jewish French woman living in Paris, it was the beginning of a 13-year battle to track down her grandfather’s stolen art, including precious paintings by 19th ...
Dubbed "a living legend" by The Wall Street Journal, Wittman is a real-life art detective who has dedicated his life to recovering stolen art and other cultural property worth more than $225 ...
Luckily for Mootz, he and the women had something in common: they could all speak German. While getting to know them better and escorting them back into the town, they passed the entrance to the Kaiseroda salt mine in Merkers. The two women told Mootz [3] that the mine contained gold stored by the Germans, along with other treasures. Once back ...
Art from the Berlin museums and other items found in the mines at Merkers were processed here. Museum collections stored at Siegen and Grasleben also were sent to Wiesbaden. Offenbach Archival Depot: Established in July 1945 in the I.G. Farben building on the Main River just outside Frankfurt, Offenbach primarily served as an archival depot ...