Third U.S. Army Captures Reich Gold Reserve -- A Reichsbank official (right), taken into custody along with the mine's treasures, checks over the masses of labeled bags of money with finance corps men of the Third U.S. Army. what is believed to be the entire gold reserve of the German Reichsbank, hoards of German and Allied paper currency and priceless art treasures moved from Berlin were discovered in a salt mine in Markers, Germany, by troops of the Third U.S. Army April 7, 1945. It is estimated that 100 tons of gold bullion, probably all that Germany possesses, was stored in the underground vault south of Muhlhausen. Captured currency included German paper marks valued at $2,000,000,000 in American currency. May 21, 1945. (Photo by U.S Office Of War Information Picture).