Nazi Gold

Author : Ian Sayer
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781840180749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazi Gold written by Ian Sayer and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rather breathless account, first published in 1984 and updated for this edition, of what happened to the 'Nazi gold' (and gold currency bonds, bank notes of various countries, coins, jewelry, paintings, and other goodies) that disappeared in the last days of the Third Reich. The immediate cause of its dispersal lay in a raid on Berlin on February 3, 1945 by nearly a thousand Flying Fortress bombers. The Reichsbank took 21 direct hits, and shortly thereafter the bulk of the gold reserves, weighing around 100 tons and requiring thirteen railway flat cars to transport them, were stored in a deep mine at Merkers, 200 miles southwest of Berlin. On April 4, this site was overrun by Patton's Third Army, which captured gold and currency worth some $315 million at 1945 prices, in addition to 400 tons of paintings, the 3,000-year-old Egyptian statuette of Queen Nefertiti, and two million books. Sayer and Botting (Hitler's Last General, not reviewed, etc.) deal with what remained. They estimate the overall total of funds missing or stolen at $433 million, worth nearly $4 billion today. That figure includes $3.6 billion in gold currency bonds seized by Red Army Intelligence, and quietly and efficiently marketed in later years (an intriguing episode unfortunately neglected here), and seven tons of gold from the German Foreign Office which the authors located in the Bank of England. A colorful crew of characters circle around or disappear with the remainder, but often Sayer and Botting get bogged down tracing two bars of gold here or voicing dark suspicions about what is being covered up by the US Occupation authorities there. Indeed, much of the latter part of their story deals less with Nazi gold than with the high living of occupation troops in Germany. Vivid investigative reporting is obscured by dust and cobwebs. (16 pages b&w photos); 384 pg.-

Author : Tom Bower
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504043243
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazi Gold written by Tom Bower and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compelling [and] carefully researched” account of greed, duplicity, and an unholy partnership between Switzerland and the Third Reich (The Washington Times). In the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, the European continent fell, nation by nation, to Nazi Germany’s invincible war machine. But Switzerland remained neutral during World War II, taking no side and bowing to no master. For a long time after, that was the accepted history—but it was a lie. Respected British investigative journalist Tom Bower reveals the shocking truth about how the government of Switzerland and the Swiss banking industry knowingly collaborated with the Reich during the darkest era in modern history. With the knowledge and acquiescence of the Swiss government, hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims—including gold teeth extracted from the mouths of those murdered—were systematically hidden away in Swiss bank accounts. But these crimes did not end with the defeat of Hitler. For the next half century, Swiss authorities engaged in a covert campaign of lies, subterfuge, and corruption to hide the wealth from its rightful owners—concentration camp survivors and the families of the slain—while freely dispensing the illegally obtained funds to fugitive Nazis. Written by “one of the finest investigative journalists in the English-speaking world,” Nazi Gold is an explosive true account of state-endorsed crimes and atrocities; of former victims fighting courageously for their due in the face of prejudice, hatred, and indifference; and of the dedicated US Treasury agents who worked tirelessly for decades to right an unconscionable wrong (The Washington Times).

Author : Douglas Botting
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574274
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazi Gold written by Douglas Botting and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, as Allied bombers continued their final pounding of Berlin, the panicking Nazis began moving the assets of the Reichsbank south for safekeeping. Vast trainloads of gold and currency were evacuated from the doomed capital of Hitler's 'Thousand-year Reich'. Nazi Gold is the real-life story of the theft of that fabulous treasure - worth some 2,500,000,000 at the time of the original investigation. It is also the story of a mystery and attempted whitewash in an American scandal that pre-dated Watergate by nearly 30 years. Investigators were impeded at every step as they struggled to uncover the truth and were left fearing for their lives. The authors' quest led them to a murky, dangerous post-war world of racketeering, corruption and gang warfare. Their brilliant reporting, matching eyewitness testimony with declassified Top Secret documents from the US Archives, lays bare this monumental crime in a narrative which throngs with SS desperadoes, a red-headed queen of crime and American military governors living like Kings. Also revealed is the authors' discovery of some of the missing treasure in the Bank of England.

Author : Isabel Vincent
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307366456
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Silent Partners written by Isabel Vincent and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist Isabel Vincent unravels the labyrinthine story behind the headlines by taking us through the life of survivor Renée Appel, who found refuge in Canada. With her, we come to understand what it means to wait for justice: how, on the eve of war, desperate men and women entrusted their life savings to Swiss banks; how Nazis laundered gold looted from Jewish families; how the demands of international business, Swiss bank secrecy, and greed kept the truth hidden for over half a century and still prevent restitution from being made. Hitler's Silent Partners is a rigorous and often heartbreaking look at statistics seldom given a human face.

Author : George M Taber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605987115
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Gold written by George M Taber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the entire history of human civilization, gold has enraptured people around the globe. The Nazis was no less enthralled by it, and felt that gold was the solution to funding Hitler's war machine. Gold was also on the mind of FDR across the Atlantic, as he worked with Europe's other leaders to bring the United States and the rest of the world out of a severe depression. FDF was hardly the first head of state to turn to gold in difficult times. Throughout history, it has been the refuge of both nations and people in trouble, working at times when nothing else does. Desperate people can buy a loaf of bread or bribe a border guard. Gold can get desperate nations oil to keep tanks running or munitions to fight a war. If the price is right, there is always someone somewhere willing to buy or sell gold. And it was to become the Nazi's most important medium of exchange during the war. Chasing Gold is the story of how the Nazis attempted to grab Europe’s gold to finance history’s bloodiest war. It is filled with high drama and close escapes, laying bare the palate of human emotions. Walking through the tale are giants of world history, as well as ordinary people called upon to undertake heroic action in an extraordinary time.

Author : Marie McSwigan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590425377
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snow Treasure written by Marie McSwigan and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1958 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade Level 5.5, Book# 85, Points 4.

Author : Arthur L. Smith (Jr.)
Publisher : Berg 3pl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Gold written by Arthur L. Smith (Jr.) and published by Berg 3pl. This book was released on 1989-10-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazi Germany utilized every available resource to fight the Second World War, and one significant weapon in Hitler's economic arsenal was gold - gold looted from the central banks of those European countries which were occupied by the Nazi regime between 1939 and 1942. Calculated at pre-1939 prices, the Germans gained access to about $625 million (US) in monetary gold, only about half of which was recovered by American Forces in April 1945 from a mine in central Germany. The 'Gold War' did not end then, however; it just assumed a different shape. Instead of fuelling Hitler's war effort, the recovered gold soon became a pawn in the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union and has remained a controversial issue in international politics for years, one not completely resolved to this day.Although this is an important aspect of the Second World War and its aftermath, it has been largely neglected in historical research because of the lack of adequate source materials. The author succeeded in gaining access to hitherto unavailable but crucial records from archives in West Germany, Britain and the United States and is thus in a position to piece together, for the first time, the story of the Nazi gold loot and the long, complicated restitution of part of this gold by the Western Allies. Hitler's Gold represents an essential contribution to the economic history of the Second World War.

Author : Bill Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996181686
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Train written by Bill Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAS A NAZI GOLD TRAIN BEEN HIDDEN IN A MOUNTAIN TUNNEL SINCE WORLD WAR II? Paul Silver, an international businessman and amateur adventurer, arrives in Berlin looking for information about a fabled Nazi train full of priceless objects and gold. Along with answers he finds a deranged man who hated him in the past, a man who wants revenge more than life itself. There have been rumors for decades about a train filled with so much wealth it could fund Hitler's dream of a Fourth Reich. A Romanian family believes its patriarch, one of Hitler's trusted officers, possesses a coded diary - a book that will lead to vast treasure hidden somewhere in Europe at the end of the war. Paul soon learns nothing is as it should be. A hundred-year-old murderer, a gypsy fortune-teller, a trio of greedy relatives and a search for the mysterious Nazi train lead Paul Silver on the most exciting adventure of his life.

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Anova Books
ISBN 13 : 9781844860531
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Rommel's Gold written by Peter Haining and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to a stolen hoard of treasure known as 'Rommel's Gold' is one of the most elusive and enduring mysteries of World War II. This work examines the theories of its whereabouts, tracking down the route taken by the missing treasure and reviewing the searches that have taken place.

Author : Karl Hammer
Publisher : Elmar B V Uitgeverij
ISBN 13 : 9789038923888
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hunt for the Nazi Gold written by Karl Hammer and published by Elmar B V Uitgeverij. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As reported by Der Spiegel, Yahoo News, ABC News, the Daily Mail and others. "The Hunt for the Nazi Gold" by Karl Hammer is the investigation of the secret code hidden inside the musical score of the "March Impromptu" by composer Gottfried Federlein. During the fall of the German Nazi empire, a large portion of Hitler's treasure went missing. Rumors about this fabled Nazi treasure of gold and diamonds have been circulating for decades. During his investigation, journalist Karl Hammer stumbled a piece of sheet music, which he believes holds the secret to the location of the hidden Nazi treasure. Unable to crack the code himself, he is asking readers around the world to aid him in this endeavor. Can you crack the code leading to a treasure of untold riches?