Nazi Gold

Author: Douglas Botting
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780574274
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 423

Book Description
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.

Nazi Gold

Author: Tom Bower
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504043243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
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).

Chasing Gold

Author: George M Taber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1605987115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521

Book Description
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.

Hitler's Silent Partners

Author: Isabel Vincent
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307366456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
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.

Snow Treasure

Author: Marie McSwigan
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590425377
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Grade Level 5.5, Book# 85, Points 4.

Nazi Gold Train

Author: Douglas V. DOLLARD
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781701348103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
On a bitterly cold night in January 1945, a heavily armored train pulled into the station at Breslau in German occupied Poland. Here, ancient tapestries, priceless masterpieces and three hundred tons of gold looted from the treasuries of conquered countries were loaded aboard. Just before dawn, laden with treasure, the train pulled away from the station heading west and disappeared from history.Deep in the primeval forests of the Eulengebirge Mountains of southwestern Poland a secret Nazi fortress lies buried, untouched by the passage of time. Here, in a labyrinth of tunnels Hitler's most advanced weapons of mass destruction were assembled. Now, a group of private treasure hunters claim they have found it. But when the son of a wealthy real estate developer goes missing, Riley is called upon to find him.

The Hunt for the Nazi Gold

Author: Karl Hammer
Publisher: Elmar B V Uitgeverij
ISBN: 9789038923888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
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?

Plunder

Author: Menachem Kaiser
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1328506460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
A New York Times Critics’ Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex—leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance—material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.

The Last Viking

Author: James William Jones
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491702109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399

Book Description
An unexpected visit from their Jewish banker at the beginning of World War II alerts Wilhelm and Kristin to the horrors of the holocaust. Odin had recently appeared to Kristin, portending an upheaval in their lives; they realized this must be their next adventure. Slipping into Nazi Germany through Morocco, they forged identities that gave them access to the most powerful men in the Third Reich. They soon realized that preventing this madman from eradicating those deemed unworthy to populate the Reich was a daunting task even for Wilhelm, Th e Last Viking, and Kristin, his Valkyrie companion. As they edged ever closer to Hitler they encountered some of the most fascinating people of the twentieth century, including Hermann Gring, Joseph Goebbels, Dr. Josef Mengele, Claus von Stauff enberg, and Hitlers filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. Along the way they would meet the king of the Roma and befriend numerous innocent Germans caught up in this the last Great War. They eventually succeed in changing the course of history, but not without great cost. This book also explains why the Russians continued to attempt to authenticate the remains of Hitler well into the 1970s, never believing that he died in the Fhrerbunker.

Hidden Gold

Author: Ella Burakowski
Publisher: Second Story Press
ISBN: 1927583756
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, each doing their part to run the family grocery store and tobacco concession. The oldest daughter, Shoshana, had many friends, her sister Esther was meticulous as she worked at the family store, and young David was doted on by them all. But that life is shattered in 1939 when Germany invades Poland and Jewish people are forced into the streets; their homes, schools, and businesses burned. We follow the Gold family's journey as they are forced into hiding. Just hours before the Nazis come to take over their current town, their mother has a premonition that today they will have a savior. When that someone appears, they are given hope for the first time since leaving home. But Shoshana has learned to be wary of strangers and knows that her family is in danger. The Golds hide in a cramped, secret enclosure for twenty-six months. Appalling conditions, starvation, fear of imminent betrayal and capture makes this a heart-stopping testament to the human spirit.