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(www.nytimes.com, Dec. 1, 1997)
U.S. Melted Down Gold Items From Nazis
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Seven years after World War II ended, the United States melted down gold plates, buttons, coins and smoking-pipe ornaments that were
apparently looted from Hitler's victims, and turned the gold over to European central banks.