France, eight months after the start of the Second World War. the German troops have broken through the French defense lines. In June 1940 they marched into Paris. A day later, it is the evening of June 15th, the new rulers want to see their spoils of war in the French capital: the second largest gold reserves in the world at the time, 2,500 tons. A delegation of German officers is led into the underground vault of the National Bank. They stand in the highly secured complex, monumental like a burial chamber, supported by over 700 marble columns, and they look around. And find nothing. The 11,000 square meter hall is empty.
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