Class field towers of imaginary quadratic fields

In their 1934 paper, Scholz and Taussky defined the notion of capitulation type for imaginary quadratic fields whose ideal class group has a Sylow 3-subgroup which is elementary abelian of order 3². For one particular capitulation type (type D) they prove that the 3-class field tower of the quadratic field has length 2. They briefly indicate how a similar result can be shown to hold for capitulation type E. In this paper we give a simpler proof of their type D result and we construct a group theoretic counterexample to their type E assertion.