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The initiative alleges that there is an "acute" danger that the German gold could be expropriated as a result of the financial and debt crisis. They argue that the German government could soon be forced to sell gold to cover the costs of the crisis.
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Philipp Missfelder, a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), wanted to see the gold for himself and traveled to New York in person to inspect the holdings, according to the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau. His trip was apparently unsuccessful, though. When he visited the Fed's safes in New York, staff were either unable or unwilling to show him exactly which bars belonged to Germany
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Could be expropriated or could have been expropriated?
Either way, I'd say that 'amalgamated' would be a better word than 'expropriated'. Expropriation would be theft and there's no way the US would just steal it, but "using it" to back up various financial activities, since it's there so to speak....
Good luck repatriating it
maybe you could get a signed IOU instead?