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Merkers Adventure Mines are a visitor attraction in Krayenberggemeinde in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany, owned and operated by K+S AG of Kassel. 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.
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.
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 find. The area is now a visitor attraction, the Merkers Adventure Mines.
Law-Related Resources on Nazi Gold and Other Holocaust Assets, Swiss Banks during World War II, and Dormant Accounts; Nazi Gold: The Merkers Mine Treasure; Bank of England role in selling Nazi gold looted from Czechoslovakia; THE CASE OF GENERAL ANTE MOŠKOV 1945–1947 OR GENERAL ANTE MOŠKOV AND THE SO CALLED USTASHI GOLD 1945–1947
Merkers, Germany: The Kaiserode mine at Merkers was discovered by the U.S. 3rd Army under General George S. Patton in April 1945. Reichsbank gold, along with 400 paintings from the Berlin museums and numerous other crates of treasures were also discovered. Discoveries also included gold and personal belongings from Nazi concentration camp victims.
File:Monuments Men, Merkers salt mines, Germany, 1945.jpg ... This photo depicts monuments men who are retrieving stolen paintings that were stored in the Merker's ...
In 1945, near the last few months of World War II, the village of Chocholná-Velčice was located along the front lines for about two weeks, the Facebook post said. The Nazi German army defended ...
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