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(www.upi.com, Dec. 1, 1997)
Report: U.S. melted down Nazi gold
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NEW YORK, Dec. 1 --
Decades-old documents from the Federal Reserve Bank in New York show that
the U.S. Treasury melted down Nazi gold, believed to belong to Holocaust victims, and handed the valuable bars over to various European banks.
According to those documents and other archival material obtained by the New York Times
the federal government turned buttons, smoking pipes, plates, coins and teeth into gold bars in 1952
for the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold.

...The Treasury department did not return United Press International's calls.
A spokesman for the Federal Reserve says
the documents are not available and may have bene given to the Times by Elan Steinberg, the executive director of the World Jewish Congress.
He is in England for a meeting of Nazi gold hunters. Other attendees are trying, reportedly unsuccessfully, to trace the gold from concentration camps.
However, records show that
when American troops swept through Europe, they discovered warehouses of gold the Nazis stole from the Jews and their other victims.
The declassified documents indicate that
the U.S. Commissioner for Germany sent the Federal Reserve 17 boxes of gold seven years after the war ended, but no papers point to their origins. --