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Topic History of: 1930 Germany - would we have stood up to the Nazis ?
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zooloo |
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Foz |
No-one will ever be able to track the missing wealth. When the Train Robbers fled the UK, the price of a fake passport or a midnight boat trip across the Channel must have risen enormously for such high profile fugitives. I gather that not much of the £2m was ever recovered and much was probably spent along the way - Ronnie Biggs hardly had the life of luxury once he got to Brazil.
The same must have happened for ex-Nazi's fleeing to Latin America - I imagine dodgy doctors must have charged fortunes for facial surgery - although they probably smuggled gold out which was easy to resmelt and untraceable. Also diamonds like in 'Marathon Man' because they too are untraceable and very easy to smuggle. Valuable paintings were too bulky and most likely left in Europe. |
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veritas |
it isn't too difficult to track down the Bush/Harriman Hitler connections
Hitler was certainly very rich after his Mein Kempf manifesto was published and became a best-seller (try reading it though..booring. Perhaps it flows better in German !)
But indeed..whatever happened to all the Nazi loot ?. Afterall, they were a bunch of common thieves as well, "confiscating" Jewish assetts ,looting museums etc.
Switzeland ? Argentina ? ..guarantee much of it ended up there protected by friendly interests.
It's only been the last 10 years or so that we have been getting the real history of the Nazi regime and other Western countries invovlemnent with their rise.
Oswald Mosley may have been a public face of Britain's Nazis but there were plenty of other powerful figures who thought along similar lines about whipping workers into shape.
But we don't even know what happened to Iraq's wealth when those dozens of trucks , protected by tanks, looted the museums of Iraq of antiquities as Donald "Stuff Happens" Rumsfield chortled away on TV.
How can we ever hope to track the looted Nazi wealth ? |
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I did a quick google for Hitler's personal fortune and found several sites mentioning it. They all seem to conclude that his fortune was seized at the end of the war. Here is one of the links.
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/98/10/Hitler1.html |
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zooloo |
@veritas
"Hitler's personal fortune" - any information on this please?
Cheers
ETA I'm not thinking of his book royalties but stealing the nations wealth and stuffing it in foreign bank accounts like modern dictators seem to do - tried Google but no luck  |
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