Hidden in plain sight,During World War II the Germans took everything of value from the countries th

Hidden in plain sight,During World War II the Germans took everything of value from the countries they occupied.  Gold, silver, jewels, art, almost anything worth anything was confiscated to help fund the German war machine.  Hiding or sending valuables out of the country was strictly forbidden, even punishable by death.When Germany occupied Denmark 1940, the scientists Max Von Laue and James Franck decided they needed to hide their Nobel Prize Medals from the German’s sticky fingers, as there was a law specifically forbidding Nobel Prize winners from keeping their awards.  They entrusted their medals to the famous physicist Niels Bohr.  Bohr had to find a way to hide the 24 karat gold medals so that the Germans would never find them, and he had to do it quickly as there were German soldiers literally marching through the streets of Copenhagen.In a stroke of brilliance, a Hungarian chemist named Georgy de Hevesy came up it a way to hide the medals so that no one would ever find them. The Germans thoroughly searched the grounds of Bohr’s Institute of Theoretical Physics, even digging up plants outside of the building.  However the Germans were never able to find anything.De Hevesy dissolved the medals in a substance called “aqua regia” also known as nitro hydrochloric acid.  The medals stayed suspended in liquid solution, in a beaker on the shelf of Niels Bohr’s laboratory throughout World War II, essentially hiding in plain sight.  When the war ended with the fall of the Third Reich, the gold was recovered and recasted into medals by the Nobel Foundation.  -- source link
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