[templar]

I think it would be interesting to know the full history of how that much gold came to be in one place...

I once saw a WWII German photograph of piled up gold teeth. Piles so high that they needed front end loaders to move them. All donated by Germans, and assorted other European supporters, to further the Nazi war effort.

[COBOL2Java]

...All donated by Germans, and assorted other European supporters, to further the Nazi war effort.

I saw those photos, too. However, I wouldn't quite use the word "donated" - IIRC much of those items originally belonged to Jews.