 On 25 August 1943, Göring hid his collection of looted artwork, including "Christ with the Adulteress", in an Austrian salt mine, along with 6,750 other pieces of artwork looted by the Nazis.On 17 May 1945, Allied forces entered the salt mine where Captain Harry Anderson discovered the previously unknown "Vermeer".In May 1945, the Allied forces questioned banker and art dealer Alois Miedl regarding the newly discovered Vermeer.