In 1945, an American officer pilfered valuable pieces from Germany's most important art collection and sent them to Texas. Now, experts are wondering: Was he just a simple thief? Or was he trying to save the treasure from the Nazis? Joe Tom Meador sent several packages through military mail from Quedlinburg, located in Germany’s Harz Mountains, to his hometown of Whitewright, Texas.
They included a comb from the first German king, Henry I, a number of millennium-old reliquaries made of rock crystal.