Something tells me we will never know for sure. TC http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/02/business/la-fi-gold-bars-20120803
"Philipp Missfelder, a prominent German legislator in the country's ruling Christian Democratic Union party, visited the New York Fed in February seeking to inspect his country's gold." Hahaha, I bet that turned out hillariously close to the scene from Die Hard 3, minus the heist.