A TELEPHONE call from Brigade Headquarters changed out plans.
It was Major Luther Miller of G-2. He had just made an in-
spection of a house belonging to one of Göring's henchmen and
there was a lot of "art stuff" in it. He had reported the find to
Third Army Headquarters and Captain Posey had told him to get
in touch with me. Could I go up to the house with him that after-
noon?

Major Miller picked me up after lunch. He was a handsome
fellow, tall and sparely built. He had an easy, pleasant manner.
As we drove along he gave me further details about the house to
which we were going. It had been occupied until the day before
by Fritz Görnnert and his wife. Görnnert had been the social sec-
retary and close confidant of Göring. The Görnnerts had been liv-
ing on the second and third floors. They shared the house with a
man named Angerer, who had the first floor. Both Görnnert and
Angerer had been apprehended and were now in jail. Major Miller
had found a suspiciously large number of tapestries and other art
objects on the premises. He thought they might be loot.

The house was an unpretentious villa hidden among pine trees
high up in the hills above the town. The place was under guard.
On the ground floor we examined the contents of a small store-
room. There were several cases bearing Angerer's name and three

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