Re German Gold
Not sure I heard that, but what In do remember was that it took ages to get all the Gold and that there were loads of new bars. The Bundesbank played it all down….but the entire operation was a joke.
The Germans were forced into demanding their Gold back, by a campaign of German Gold bugs….when eventually they did ask for the Gold back, instead of loading the German bars onto a plane and delivering them, all sorts of excuses came up, like a plane was too risky, u have to use a ship, etc….
It was basically a fiasco and although Gold was delivered and no-one in authority said anything…it was so obvious that the US did not have the Gold to deliver.