faulty analogy
a more accurate one would be you retrieving your safe deposit box and the pictures and documents were not the same but duplicates of the ones you placed in there originally.
Germany’s gold was stored in a vault. the intention is that it would not move and would not be touched.
obviously, that is incorrect and the rest of the world needs to comprehend the magnitude of that
‘Bars that have the Bundesbank stamp and assay on them’
Meaning that this is Germany’s property.