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Nazi gold captured after WWII. (AP)
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Caption: U.S. Mint officials and G.I.’s are sorting out millions of dollars-worth of German bullion in the Reichsbank vaults at Frankfurt, Germany. Identification and assaying alone, will take weeks according to Mr. Leland Howard, Assistant Director of the U.S. Mint. This great hoard of loot also includes jewels extorted from rich victims of the Nazi Gestapo. In the strong rooms were discovered the German crown jewels. An American soldier wheels a trolley laden with gold bars each one valued at 12,000 dollars, while in the background, U.S. mint officials assisted by G.I.s check the value of gold bars on a set of scales flown specially over from work on July 20, 1945. (**Caption information received incomplete) (AP Photo)Shutter Speed: 0 seconds