Excerpt from a letter by Pfc. James B. Alexander to his parents about the MFAA find at Neuschwanstein Castle:

“The inside of the castle from an architectural point of view is hideous. It’s a late nineteenth century interpretation of what a castle should be and the result is rococo, baroque, Romanesque, Italian, Irish, etc. But the stuff that was there! We found rooms full of objets d’art. There were priceless tapestries piled 6 to 8 inches deep on the floor, and room after room of paintings. One room was full of crates and when we opened one of them we found it full of diamond-studded snuff boxes. Lieutenant Rhomer (Rorimer) got so excited over the find that we thought he was going to have a stroke. While we were there a group of G.I.’s drove up and we found that they were going to blow up the place because they were told that it had been used as a military training school.

We had to start back the next morning and Lieutenant Rhomer (Rorimer) caught a plane to Paris to report his find. [. . .]”

(Source: http://www.fold3.com/image/270028167/)

James J Rorimer