Word: vieck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a look. The mine was held by eight German civilians. Two were polite, worldly men from Berlin: 1) moonfaced Werner Vieck, a Reichsbank official; 2) pale, gaunt Dr. Paul Ortwin Rave, curator of the German state museums, assistant director of Berlin's National Gallery. They talked quite frankly about their secret, now that it was no longer secret. The mine, they said, held...
...About 100 tons of gold bars (worth approximately $100,000,000); Banker Vieck said it was Germany's entire gold reserve...
...Banker Vieck regretted that he could not show the cache of gold; somebody had lost the key to the chamber. The Americans obligingly blew out the wall. And there was the gold, each 25-lb. bar wrapped in a sack, each sack tagged: "Reichsbank." There were sacks of gold coin, some of them too heavy for a man to lift. There seemed to be even more gold stacked in the dim-lit, salt-crusted chamber than Vieck had said...
Gold was something for reparations experts to worry about. General Earnest's intelligence officers were more interested in the three billion German marks. That currency might turn out to be a prize of golden military value. Banker Vieck remarked that the German Army desperately needed it to meet its payrolls. It was irreplaceable: Germany's money-engraving plants had been bombed...