28 May 2021 Garand Picture of the Day

[Bob Seijas]

Probably not quite as good as the troopers who pillaged Goring's cellar got

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[browningautorifle]

Goring's cellar

I understand that sight was breathtaking. Like a current liquor warehouse for stock...

[Mark in Rochester]

Probably not quite as good as the troopers who pillaged Goring's cellar got

Cricova's marketing director Alexandru Alexeev gives me a guided tour. He stops his golf buggy beside an alcove filled with dusty bottles. "This is Herman Goering's private collection, taken by the Red Army from Berlin in 1945," he says.


I grab a bottle of the Mosel white, rub off the dust and hold it to the light wondering if this had been touched by Hitler's henchman. It's murky, bits of cork appear to be floating in the liquid.

"Don't remove the dirt, even the dust is valuable," Alexeev admonishes. "How valuable?" I ask. "Well, each bottle is worth £15,000(18,291.00 USD) and there are 129 of them," he says.