It's since spread across two tables in
the basement of the Dallas Museum of Art
as if it were a collection of knickknacks
for a yard sale.
It is, in fact, the lost treasure
of woodland berg.
There's not enough money in the world to
buy it. The very first king of Germany
combed this through his hair.
They say this box held the bones of
the Saints.
A guard watches this treasure.
Night and day, it is off limits to the
public and it will remain here until
a federal judge in Dallas resolves a suit
over ownership.
The year 1945, the place
Germany, a young man from Texas, was
over there to fight the war.
His name, Joe Metter, when he
left Kuwait, Linberg, Germany, the
treasure left, too.
After all these years, the church has
tracked its treasure to Metters
relatives. They say Metters stole
the Treasure Matadi 10 years
ago. His family's attorney says metter
may have bought the treasure
if they were acquired in Germany
around April of 1945.
That was an unbelievably chaotic
time over there.
The attorney says metter displayed the
treasure like Bric-A-Brac on his coffee
table. He asked what a man with something
to hide do that.
In any case, he says, the statute of
limitations may be in his client's favor,
since the treasure has been with them for
40 years.
But the German church says they possess
the treasure for five centuries
and they want it back.
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