by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
About a decade ago – 2015-2016 to be precise – you might recall that I was blogging a lot about Germany’s attempt to repatriate its gold. In fact, if you go to the search engine on the front page of this website and just search for “German gold” all sorts of my blogs about the subject will pop up. There are so many they are too numerous to list here. For those who may not remember, or who may have become regular readers of this website since then, Germany was then attempting to repatriate its gold from western reserve banks that held large stocks of that country’s gold reserves, estimated to be the second largest holdings in the world after the USA’s. The gold being targeted for repatriation was about a third of that country’s holdings in Paris, in London (in the Bank of England) and in the New York Federal Reserve vaults. As the story developed, Germany did indeed repatriate some of that gold, but then suspicions began to emerge in the press – for reasons never entirely made clear – that the gold repatriated may not have been of assay quality but less-than-pure coin melt gold, and demands began to surface in the independent German media for an audit and full accounting of the gold thus repatriated. This the Bundesbank never really managed to do, issuing a few unsatisfactory reports, and there the matter fizzled and sizzled until, eventually, the story was dropped.