History Mysteries: Where is hidden Nazi gold?
Regime led by Adolf Hitler would notice received countless crimes against humanity, plus extreme discrimination and policies that led eventually to the outbreak of the worst military conflagration in history. Among the most interesting and least known episodes of the Nazi regime, it is noted that the fate of the gold stolen and transferred mainly in Swiss banks. Details emerged after the end of the war world have not only increased international scandals that followed and fueled numerous conspiracy theories. As gold continues feverishly searches today.Halt! Gold was confiscated!During the Nazi cower Europe, its management did not hesitate to lead a policy of robbery at his victims. Episode entitled "Nazi gold" always aroused interest from both the governments of many states and the victims of Nazi aggression, historians and specialists, as well as ordinary people.Everyone wanted to know what happened and values ??held by ethnic deposits in Swiss banks Hebrew, and what happened to the gold looted by the Nazis invaded the country banks. Searches were started over 60 years ago and continues today. For most researchers and investigators, events began to precipitate from the first weeks of April 1945.
At that time, several brigades of the U.S. Third Army, which marched through Germany, they stopped right in the village Merkers Kaiseroda mine. Received information from local residents about the fact that employees of the German Reichsbank gold bullion buried many around. The information proved to be correct.
At the entrance to the mine, the Americans have discovered boxes of gold bullion coin bags of the same precious metal, objects of art and other valuable goods. Treasure was taken by U.S. forces, aided by representatives of the U.S. Treasury. was then decided that gold was worth only about U.S. $ 238.4 million (approximately $ 2.5 billion at present). During the coming weeks, the U.S. military has found gold bars worth $ 18.7 million.
Besides bullion, U.S. officials have made a grim discovery: many gold rings that belonged to victims of the terrible extermination camps.
Identification and Nazi gold recovery operation was started even before the war ended. In 1944 the U.S. government was already informed that the Nazi leaders who do not believe in hypothetical "final victory", trumpeted paranoid of Adolf Hitler, were already busy with the transfer of gold robbed.
Leaders with swastika hopes to secure money for their own people with the necessary amounts of rebuilding a strong Germans after the war.
U.S. officials were particularly worried about the neutral countries that served as storage places for values ??out of Germany.
Safeheaven Program
As a result, the U.S. Treasury Department and released in conjunction with the Foreign Economic Administration, an ambitious project called Safeheaven program.
This project had the objective of halting the Nazi attempts to trace lost gold and valuables stolen, and the location, recovery and return them to their rightful owners. The two major agencies have collaborated with other federal agencies and the Ministry of Economy and the War of Great Britain.Such information was subsequently used in negotiations with neutral states who collaborated with the Nazi regime for transit and storage of gold.
When the war ended, the Allies discovered that the German gold reserve before the conflagration was worth about $ 160 million at the time. It turned out that the Nazis had to steal gold worth over $ 600 million in occupied countries, including the Netherlands and Belgium being robbed . U.S. State Department to discover that the Nazi regime had sold gold worth $ 300 million by Swiss banks.
The same sad reminder did not hesitate to wash approximately $ 140 million in the same Swiss banks and the money is then used to purchase goods from Spain and Portugal. The same gold stolen Nazis bought various goods and Sweden and the Kingdom of Romania, these countries spent about $ 61 million.
Finally, the U.S. authorities were able to identify and recover gold totaling $ 293 million.
The Allies subsequently decided by the Conference of Paris, 1945, to launch a series of procedures for returning gold looted by the Nazis in some European banks and return the so-called "non-monetary gold", ie watches, earrings, jewelry and rings in Gold.
Enters the scene and the Tripartite Commission
The procedures were carried out for a new set, called the Tripartite Commission, which was to celebrate the launch of the Tripartite Gold Commission, composed of representatives of the U.S., Britain and France. It had to decide how much each country should receive robbed. Commission exists today and is headquartered in Brussels.
At that conference in Paris decided that the United States and Britain to conduct negotiations with neutral states. The negotiations started in Switzerland in the spring of 1946 ended with the signing of the Washington Agreement, under which Switzerland undertook to repay amounts of gold worth "only" $ 58 million in value when the U.S. currency. For over 40 years, except the representatives advise Hebrew World, no one insisted on full repayment or discovery of Nazi gold.
However, in 1996, U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato had a meeting with congressional leaders on World Hebrew gold looted by the Nazis and deposited in Swiss banks, which was not repaid ethnic Hebrew or their survivors. On this occasion, people resumed its entire interest in the thought of the episode looked over.
Were reopened hundreds of cases have been studied and have forgotten documents inquests unprecedented in banking. Hebrew World Congress representatives, along with specialists from the Swiss Bankers Association were surprised to discover that what at first seemed a well actually turned out to be a river.
They came out so the surface, huge amounts never declared, money laundering and inquiries about lost Nazi gold and transported to Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Turkey.
Questions classified?
Many journalists and historians argue that the current interest to the issues and concerns Nazi gold in Swiss banks Hebrew ethnic values ??is based on the fact that many documents remained classified for 50 years. However, a large part of the document has been downgraded to the interval between the years 1982 to 1997.
Very powerful and influential agencies such as the U.S. State Department, the CIA, the Holocaust Museum in Washington, Treasury Department, Department of Justice, U.S. Army, worked hard to identify and recover the total amount of gold stolen. However, not found much.
Even the Vatican considered contiguous with laundered money in Switzerland have not led to long-awaited results.
Investigations Yaron Svoray
Yaron Svoray is an Israeli investigator began a real hunt on their own to find Nazi gold, currently estimated at a value of 1, 16 billion. As reported recently by the British newspaper The Telegraph, it is believed that gold would be untraceable thrown into a lake near Berlin. Nearly 18 gold and platinum cases could lay buried on the bottom Stolpsee, a stretch of water approximately four square kilometers located in northern Germany.
Yaron Svoray in cooperation with the German authorities will use the latest radar and sonar to try to locate the boxes with gold which is said to have been hidden in the lake on the orders of Herman Goering, pressed Red Army final assault on Berlin .
Searches are based on Eckhart's statement Litz a commission after the war. He claimed that he saw a total of 30 prisoners in a concentration camp who have downloaded several heavy boxes trucks parked near Lake Stolpsee. "Crates were taken by ferry in the middle of the lake and dumped in its waters. When the last crate was thrown overboard, the prisoners were brought ashore, where they were lined up and executed by the guards with automatic Schmeisser "and reminded Litz.
Sursa foto: yaronsvoray.com
Yaron Svoray is a known Israeli journalist and investigator who has dedicated much of his life pursuing people and discovering Semitic Nazi treasure. He believes that German leaders who ordered the operation subsequently fled to South America.
Yaron Svoray attempt to discover the lake Stolpsee Nazi gold is not one single. In the 80s, when the lake belonged to the German Democratic Republic, the famous Stasi secret police divers used unsuccessfully trying to locate gold. Similarly, two years ago, a group of business people also turned to the services of a team of divers. Still no success.
However, the Israeli interrogator does not give all up.
"For me it is a particularly important issue. Not related to the financial value as human memory from which gold was robbed. My ultimate goal is to make them little justice, "concluded Svoray.
Gold continues but not to be found. It's like a treasure over which hangs a heavy curse. One of the millions of innocent victims of the Nazi regime ...
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