 The exceptionally valuable treasure of the cathedral of former imperial  Pfalz  (palatial seat) Quedlinburg, over two dozen masterpieces of medieval imperial art, such as the Samuel evangeliary, which is later offered on the black market, was taken by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler s SS just before the Second World War; twelve of the valuable pieces disappeared in 1945 from its safe place in a castle cellar, but before the US Fourth Cavalry regiment took the city or by an American officer s doing? The First National Bank branch in Whitewright, an insignificant town in Texas, is where Dr. Willi Korte, a German historian and lawyer, who made his name by finding incriminating documents in Washington, D.C. about UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim s Nazi-linked past, hoped to end his long treasure hunt for it, initiated by Dr. Goldmann from the Prussian arts foundation, finding the late Texan veteran John Thomas Meadow, then an art student and First Lieutenant in the US Army, had every single necessary opportunity, with an FBI-supported claim, and finds in two unsightly cartons the coveted precious content, now returned to Quedlinurg; only two pieces remain lost.