Nazi Gold: The Merkers Mine Treasure

Spring 1999, vol. 31, no. 1 By Greg Bradsher Enlarge The 90th Division discovered Reichsbank wealth, SS loot, and museum paintings that had been removed from Berlin to a salt mine in Merkers, Germany. View in National Archives Catalog Late on the evening of March 22, 1945, elements of Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third Army crossed the Rhine, and soon thereafter his whole army crossed the river and drove into the heart of Germany. Advancing northeast from Frankfurt, elements of the Third Army cut into the future Soviet Zone and advanced on Gotha.