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We do not have the
resources, skills, or time to dig into the missing gold from WWII. But, we
are seeing a cultivated distraction to divert public interest from the
factual disposition of the captured German gold to the non-monetary Holocaust
gold in Swiss banks. To our knowledge the signatory documentation has never
been seen by the public - - only government claims that "most of the
gold has been restituted". Oh yeah? Show us the beef.
As we've said repeatedly, there are
only three methods a government and its bankers acquire their gold from its
subjects:
1. CONQUEST
2. CONFISCATION (FDR, Hitler, etc.)
3. COUNTERFEIT SUBSTITUTES (irredeemable
debt notes )
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Searching for Records Relating to Nazi Gold - Part I
By Greg Bradsher
Assistant Chief, Archives II Textual Reference Branch
The Record , May 1997
[Excerpt]
The Allies, at a reparation conference held in Paris late in 1945,
established procedures for the restitution of the gold looted by the Nazis
from the central banks of Europe (so-called "Monetary Gold"), as
well as for the restitution of "Non-Monetary Gold" (e.g. gold
watches and wedding bands). The procedures called for the non-monetary gold
to be restituted to individuals and groups of individuals through the
auspices of an international refugee organization.
The Tripartite Commission
The procedures called for monetary gold to be turned over to a newly
established Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold that
would decide how much gold would be returned to each country that had its
central bank gold looted. The so-called Tripartite Gold Commission,
composed of American, British, and French representatives, restituted most of
the gold in the 1950s after reviewing claims by various countries. The
Commission still exists, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. Its members are
presently deciding how to allocate the remaining $60 million worth of gold
(in today's dollars).
At the Paris Conference it was decided that the United States and Great
Britain would take the lead in negotiating with the neutral countries for the
return of Nazi looted gold.
Negotiations with the Swiss took place in the spring of 1946 in Washington,
D.C. The resulting "Washington Accord" provided that the Swiss
return gold only worth about $58 million. This gold was turned over to the
Tripartite Gold Commission to be restituted to the countries with claims
before the Commission.
The advent of the Cold War, the restitution of most of the monetary gold by
the Tripartite Gold Commission in the 1950s, and other factors, resulted in
diminishing interest in all the questions surrounding Nazi looted assets.
There was, however, Jewish interest in dormant and closed bank accounts in
Switzerland, but not enough to cause a groundswell of action. Nor was there
much interest in the role played during the war by Switzerland and the other
neutrals. For all intents and purposes the issues surrounding looted assets
exited from center stage. [For 40 years there was not much interest in
Nazi looted assets and almost no research...emphasis added]. Source: Searching for Records Relating to
Nazi Gold: Part I [End Excerpt]
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