Holocaust gold: from the victims to Switzerland: the paths of the Nazi plunder
TitelHolocaust gold: from the victims to Switzerland: the paths of the Nazi plunder
Call number940.531809494/0010
Objektnummer05811
UdgivelsesstedTel Aviv, Israel
UdgiverMoreshet
Udgivelsesår
2001
Paginering261p.,index,bibliography
MaterialeBook
ISBN9657026423
Beskrivelse
Discusses Switzerland's role in the "laundering" of looted gold . Of the 800 tons of plundered gold used ti finance Hitler's war machine, 290 tons were stolen from private individuals. One chapter covers the minting of Vreneli gold coins and their sale to the general public in order to shrink the enormous gold stocks Switzerland built up during the war