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Why Germany Wants to See its US Gold
• www.spiegel.deBundesbank President Jens Weidmann wanted to personally convince Peter Gauweiler that the German gold was still where it should be. Early this summer, the head of Germany's central bank took the obstinate politician from the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), a party that is a member of the government coalition in Berlin, and a number of his colleagues into the Bundesbank's inner sanctum: the gold vault.
But even this personal inspection wasn't enough to reassure the visiting member of parliament -- on the contrary: "The Bundesbank monitors its domestic gold in an exemplary fashion," Gauweiler says, "and this makes it all the more incomprehensible that the bank doesn't look after its reserves abroad."
1 Comments in Response to Why Germany Wants to See its US Gold
Hopefully they'll ultrasound the bars they receive so as to confirm they are not full of tungsten. Here's a link that shows how they do it over at goldmoney.com
http://www.goldmoney.com/video/gold-testing-short-video.html