Question: What Texas town became embroiled in an international scandal when a collection of stolen German art was found there in 1990?
Answer: Whitewright. Several medieval items belonging to the Lutheran Church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg, Germany, were reported missing by church authorities in June 1945. The artifacts had been stored in a mineshaft for safekeeping during World War II, and an investigation by the U.S. Army was unsuccessful.
In 1990, a ninth-century manuscript was purchased by an organization devoted to the repatriation of lost German art, and a renewed investigation led to the First National Bank of Whitewright, where the heirs of Lt. Joe T. Meador had stored several items he stole from the mineshaft in Quedlinburg when he was stationed there at the conclusion of the war.
