Holocaust gold: from the victims to Switzerland: the paths of the Nazi plunder
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Holocaust gold: from the victims to Switzerland: the paths of the Nazi plunder
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.531809494/0010
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]05811
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Tel Aviv, Israel
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Moreshet
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2001
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]261p.,index,bibliography
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9657026423
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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