U.S. Army Captain Harry Anderson sits at a desk in Berchtesgaden, Germany just after end of World War II in Europe. Walther Andreas Hofer, Art Director for Hermann Goering, brings in some papers found in a freight car. Anderson, who has been cataloging Nazi stolen art in Goering's collection, holds a receipt from Dr Galerie W A Luz. Goring's solid gold blotter and ink stand set on Anderson's desk. A painting in the background on the ground, leaning against a wall. Scene changes to town: Street sign: "Berchtesgaden Postamt" (Post office). German people wait in line outside a food shop. Sign reads "Off Limits - This building is not to be entered or used for any Military Purpose." German citizens wait in line at the food shop.
At the end of World War 2, U.S. soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry wooden sculptures and paintings, including the "Adam and Eve" oil painting by Franz Floris from 1550, out of Nazi German Hermann Goering's art bunker in the Wemholz area, and load them into a truck. Men walk into a building. Sign reads: "Hermann Goering's Art Collection through the Courtesy of 101st Airborne Division" Scene shifts to Hotel Hubertus in Unterstein. Guard at the entrance. Walter Andreas Hofer, Goring's Art Director, shows Nazi stolen artwork to Sgt Harold A Way, including Baroque Dutch painter Franz Hals' Portrait of a Man, possibly Willem van Warmondt, Rubens' portrait of his wife, and stolen paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Nicolaes Maes. Room filled with paintings and statues. U.S. Army truck arrives at the building, men get out of the truck and enter the building. U.S. military personnel unload paintings and statues and triptych altar, from a train onto the trucks. Virgin Mary statue at open door of the freight car.
Lieutenant General Ben Lear, Major General Manton S Eddy and other officers exit the Merkers Mines in Germany. Major General Eddy dusts off his shoes. The men drive to another location among the industrial warehouses of the mines. They enter a warehouse. Views of piles of gold in bags labeled "Reichsbank" as well as boxes of currency and suitcases.
Gold bars, bags and suitcases filled with coins inside the Merkers Mines in Germany. Reichsbank notes and confiscated silver. Two U.S. soldiers open one of the bags, remove gold bar and examine it, then place it back into the bag. They stack bags labeled "Reichsbank" (World War II period).
Gold bars, bags and suitcases filled with coins inside the Merkers Mines in Germany. Reichsbank notes and confiscated silver. Two U.S. Army soldiers examine the stash. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers climb through a hole blown through the brick wall of a bar-locked room at Merkers Mines in Germany near end of World War II. Bags of Nazi German gold, bank notes, and treasured paintings and stolen art work found inside the mine.
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