The discoveries of hidden Nazi caches during the weeks surrounding the end of World War II is a fabulous story. Photographs recorded the floors of caves, castles, and bank vaults covered in gold bullion, looted artworks, mountains of money sacks, and crates of jewelry. The largest find of all, was the $320,000,000 of gold discovered in the Kaiseroda salt mine near Merkers, Germany. In truth, these caches were the fruits of despoliation taken from plundered national gold reserves and civilian populations to be used as the economic base of the Nazi war machine.Technical definition: What caches represent (they are accumulations of assets amassed or deposited in an irregular manner)What the caches containedThe entity or person creating the cacheSpecial cases: Why the Melmer account is a cache while on deposit at the RB or hidden at the Kaiseroda salt mine.Why the BIS gold account transfers out of Switzerland on March 31, 1945 are caches.Why the transfer of gold by a retreating army is the creation of a cache The period of time over which most caches were accumulated and hidden The person(s) storing the cache determines where the caches were located, Why revisit the discovery of the Reichsbank cache stored at the Winterschal AG Kaiseroda Salt Mine near Merkers, German