Chapter 1347 Wartime Trade

After human society entered the capital era, the strategic significance of gold became increasingly important, especially the latest chapter of the online game transformation master, which showed its purchasing ability during the war period.

After all, materials and production determine to a large extent the outcome of the war

Moreover, this economic power is beyond national boundaries, and often this point is always ignored

By 1941, German Capital had majority shares in 170 American companies and held shares in another 108 American companies.

Some of these companies are members of Farben Chemical Corp, while US companies invested $420 million in Germany. As Bauman's capital transfer plan went smoothly, he re-allowed German industrialists to buy U.S. stocks.

The acquisition of US stocks is usually operated by neutral countries, especially Switzerland and Argentina’s huge foreign exchange funds from these two countries are deposited in several banks in New York, such as Citibank, Chase Bank, Hanhua Industrial Bank, Morgan Guarantee Trust Bank, etc.

The Nazi acquired more than $500 million in U.S. stocks in this way. In addition to Swiss middlemen, some major American companies also cooperated directly with the "Fire Scene Project"

According to an investigation by the US Congress, Mobil Oil Company has been closely linked with German companies, especially Faben Chemical Company. After the outbreak of the European War, Faben urgently transferred more than 2,000 foreign patents to Mobil.

In 1941, the Senate Committee of Investigation, led by Harry Truman, filed a report accusing Mobil Oil not only of continuing to sell fuel to Axis powers despite the State Department's protests, but also providing German companies with a large amount of other strategic materials and secretly absorbing German capital.

"It is difficult to see Mobil Oil as a commercial institution in the United States, which is a hostile and dangerous agent of the enemy country," the report announced.

The British Special Operations Coordination Agency published a book during the war, "Revelation Sequel: How You Pay for Hitler's War", which details the cooperation between Mobil and Faben and its Nazi backstage, as well as the tangled relationship between Germany and dozens of American puppet companies and other large American companies.

The book was printed in Canada and smuggled to the American Mobil Board of Directors who offered a reward to find the source and author of the book, but found nothing

The success of the Nazi plan to acquire American companies is partly due to the US fear of the ** system. During the Nuremberg trial, Schmitz, the head of Faben Chemistry, praised Bowman for hiding German assets worldwide.

Schmitz said during the interrogation: "…we have a viable plan anyway I don't believe that the board members of our company will be detained by you for a long time in the United States have notified us that we must go through an investigation process before being released and we have excellent relationships in Washington."

The sentence "We have excellent relationships in Washington" sounded a wake-up call for interrogators outside the Americans: this is direct evidence of the cooperation between the powers in Washington and the Nazi war machines, but the judges of the allied countries have no power to go to the United States to investigate Nazi collaborators, especially these collaborators are at a high level.

Schmitz paid a small price for his misdeeds and was sentenced to four years in prison, but his sentence was later reduced and released early, regaining a high status in the German chemical industry.

Of course, despite Bowman's careful arrangement, Krupp and Faben, who had supported the Nazis and supported their war policies, still failed to preserve them as they were.

They are too big and too conspicuous and are notorious for their cruel use of slave labor in the extermination camp. Krupp's subsidiary was stripped of layers by allies, and never restored its size. Faben was split into three companies, Bairbashf and Hirschst, and they were gone and lost their blood. They became respected world-class companies.

When people today buy Thyssen-Krupp's electromechanical products or Bayer's aspirin, they would not think that the predecessors of these companies had produced cannons and Zicklenon for the Nazis 60 years ago.

After the war, the Allies preserved these German enterprises, making them tools for German revival. There is a circle in the south of Chenyang. From this perspective, Bauman's dream was partially realized.

After realizing that Nazi Germany was transferring plundered property to neutral countries in various ways, Britain and other allies held several talks during the war

In January 1945, the Allies issued a joint declaration on the deprivation of property from enemy-occupied and enemy-controlled areas, and 16 countries, including the United Kingdom, signed the declaration.

The declaration states that the power to declare any asset trade in relation to the occupied states is invalid. The declaration has more political significance than economic significance. The Bank of England and the U.S. Treasury are both skeptical about its ability to achieve its intended purpose and believe that it will deteriorate the wartime relationship between the allies and neutral countries.

According to seized German documents, since 1940, the Nazi Party has accumulated about $1 billion in wealth according to different conversion standards, equivalent to $20 billion in the 1980s.

What makes allied trackers most difficult are the two huge Nazi accounts opened by the SS at the German National Bank, "Melmer" and "Max Helig"

Albert Thomas, head of the precious metals department of the State Bank, explained to the allies that the spoils seized by the German Fáng army in the war were always owned by the Imperial Central Bureau of Statistics or the Ministry of Finance, while the seized goods of the SS, including all precious metal banknotes, jewelry and clothing stolen from the concentration camp, were deposited into the two special accounts of the State Bank.

All the spoils are deposited in Melmer's account first, and then transferred to Heilige's account after evaluation and classification by bank personnel. Only five people in the entire German National Bank have the right to handle the "Heilige Account" - including President Walter Fonk Deputy Governor Pur's cashier department director Frank Necht and Albert Thomas

In addition to serving as the deputy governor of the German Bank of Germany, Pue is also one of the German supervisors of the Bank of International Settlements. The Bank of International Settlements was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Its members are the central banks of the country's victorious country, with the purpose of settling the compensation for World War I.

The existence of Melmer's account means that there may be other SS accounts in private names in banks around the world. From the late stages of the war, people of colonel or above in the Nazi army had more or less accumulated their own property in the occupied areas.

Some private property is mixed with state property. They embezzled German property and stolen foreign property through such a confusing public and private account. For example, Goering, the leader of the new German zf after the war, had an extremely large amount of personal property and did not pay any war compensation.

After occupying Merx, the U.S. military quickly rushed towards Berlin and the Czech Republic. At the same time, the remnants of the Nazis were thrown out by Goring as a scapegoat and tried to transport the remaining property of the German National Bank to the southern Alps. This was also their last effort to thin these property.

Many senior Nazi officials also fled there for their private property, such as Ernst Calden Bronna, the leader of the Imperial Central Security Bureau.

The only remaining document records the private property shipped to the Alps by Calden Bronna: 50 boxes of gold coins and gold products, each weighing 200 pounds; $2 million; CHF 2 million; 5 boxes of diamond jewelry; stamp collection worth 5 million gold marks; 110 pounds of gold bricks

Goering also ships his private property to a secret area, including a surprisingly good number of wines in the best years.

Not all the gold and cash from the German National Bank were shipped to Mercks, and part of it was left in Berlin for military expenses and other expenses. This part of the property includes 730 gold bricks and millions of 20 mark gold coins, with a total value of about $20 million. In addition, there are also an astonishing number of paper coins.

On the eve of the official arrival of the Chinese Federation's army in Berlin, the Nazis who were defending the city left behind gold and foreign exchange worth about 3.5 million US dollars. The remaining treasures were transported to southern Bavaria with two special trains codenamed "Eagle" and "Jackdaw".

Due to the rapid approach of the Allied forces and the air attack, the two trains were unable to reach their destination Munich

Three days later, the train was trapped about ten kilometers from the Czechoslovak city of Pilson. Some of the treasures were loaded on a truck and transported to Munich for another few days. Two special trains arrived at Paisenburg, about 50 miles south of Munich, and then transported some of the treasures by truck.

The remaining treasures were originally intended to be hidden in a local lead mine, but the lead mine had been powered off and was flooded. After receiving the report, Fonke, the president of the German Bank, ordered the treasures to be transported by truck to a small city called Mittenwald.

These treasures include 365 gold bricks, 2 pieces per bag, and the packaging method and specifications are the same as Merx gold collection; 9 boxes of secret files; 4 boxes of silver bars; 2 bags of gold coins; 6 boxes of Danish banknotes; 94 bags of foreign exchange; 34 block printing plates and a large amount of printing paper

After the second property was transported away, a small part of the national bank's gold and foreign exchange remained in Berlin. Calden Bronner ordered the SS troops to occupy it and fled to the south with these things in their arms.

In the last days of the remnants of the Nazis, Calden Bronner also distributed some of the treasures he had intercepted to the Gestapo and SS officers, such as the famous SS Colonel Otto Scholzne, who received two sums of gold, diamonds and cash worth about $9 million. The money was later discovered by the U.S. military in a hiding place and then "mysteriously lost."

Another includes 50,000 gold francs, 10,000 Spanish gold coins, 5,000 Swiss francs and 5 million German Max Koltzne hid him in Tirol, Austria, and the money was never recovered by the allies.

After the war, Skoerzne appeared in Spain and lived a noble life. He maintained the secret passage of Nazi officials to escape to South America, while also working in arms business. The US intelligence agencies did not find out that Skoerzne had embezzled a lot of wealth in 1950.

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Starting from April 19, 1945, the "gold rush team" organized by the US side began to make a full-scale attack, looking for Nazi treasures hidden in Germany and Austria.

The team was assisted by Deputy Finance Director Colonel Bernstein and his assistants Lieutenant Colonel Fischer and Director Dubois, and assisted by Pue and Thomas

A week later, US military treasure detectives found 35 bags of foreign gold coins at the National Bank branch in Halle, including 1 million Swiss francs and 250,000 gold plane traveler's latest chapter. Then, 65 bags of foreign exchange were found in the neighboring Plaunt, worth about $1 million.

On April 27, they learned that there were 82 gold bricks in Aue, but they were still under the strict protection of the German army. On April 28, they found more than 600 gold ingots and 500 boxes of silver ingots, which were the reserves of the Hungarian National Bank.

On April 29, they found 82 gold bricks in Cancer Vesch, and the next day they found 82 gold bricks under a manure pile in Coburg City. On May 1, they found 34 boxes and 2 bags of foreign gold in Nuremberg.

All of these treasures were transported to Frankfurt and stored in the US Army's foreign exchange storage office. The person in charge was also the vault requisitioned by Colonel Bernstein at the Frankfurt Branch of the German National Bank and registered.

The "Golden Strike Team" also unearthed several treasures in the Thuringian region in central Germany through rewards and other channels. One of the small treasures includes 19 bags of gold coins and gold bricks, with a total value of about 11,722 US dollars, as well as ****** US dollars and 96,614 pounds of banknotes.

In Germany and Austria, there are many small treasures like this.

Through interrogation and review of seized files, the "Gold Strike Team" learned that the German National Bank stored $17 million worth of gold in branches in various places. Except for about $3 million of gold seized by the Soviets in Berlin, the same amount of gold was discovered by the "Gold Strike Team" and the remaining $11 million of gold has been shipped to southern Germany.

In early May, Bernstein was called to return to Washington to discuss the "anti-cartelization" plan implemented in Germany after the war, and Lieutenant Colonel Dubois took over his treasure hunt in southern Germany.

It was not until June 7 that the "Golden Strike Team" discovered some other gold in southern Germany by William Geller's advance team. A total of 782 gold bricks were retrieved, but this number was far from the pre-estimated estimate.

What has been found out now is that more than 4 tons of gold from Ribbintrov was found and handed over to the Allies. Another 6.5 tons of gold disappeared after being discovered by the Allies.

According to the trial records of German diplomatic officials, a large amount of gold was transferred to the U.S. Third Army or Seventh Army on June 15, 1945. Strangely, the record volume of the Allied Occupied Areas did not have this batch of gold worth $180 million.

After the Nuremberg trial, Kampner continued to search for the missing golden years. He lobbied Congress to authorize the investigation of the case, but Congress did not give him any reply.

Half of the German National Bank's gold reserves are still missing. No doubt, Bowman has transported some of them out of Germany, and the rest have been plundered by senior Nazi officers, the US and Chinese troops. Most of the National Bank's gold may have been spent in wartime to purchase military supplies and raw materials for the production of weapons from the neutral countries and the Chinese Federation.

In a U.S. Congress's investigation report on Swiss banks' cooperation with Nazis revealed that Sweden also received gold from Germany

The newly discovered gold has the same stamp as the gold that the Nazis plundered from the Netherlands. After the war, Sweden returned only the Dutch and Belgium gold.

There are also 6 tons of gold of suspicious origin, likely from victims of concentration camps. The report said that Sweden should morally return the gold to the Jews but not legally obligated

Before the outbreak of World War II, Portugal and Britain had long political ties and good national feelings, which can be traced back to the British-Portugal alliance in the 14th century.

Portugal was an ally of Britain in World War I and sent 350,000 people to the front line until 1938. Britain was also Portugal's largest trading partner, Portugal and Britain were both pirate invaders. The reason why they were powerful was due to invasion, including Spain and the Netherlands.

The collusion between Portugal and Germany began during the Spanish Civil War. In this war, the Portuguese dictator Dr. Salazar stood on the side of Franco and Hitler, helping Germany smuggle weapons to Franco's army, and sent Portuguese volunteers to assist Franco's battle.

By the end of 1938, Germany became Portugal's third largest trading partner, but Salazar protested Hitler's invasion of Catholic Poland in 1939.

Salazar's choice to remain neutral in World War II was based on the concept of geography and consciousness. Portugal occupies an important geographical location. It has many ports near the Atlantic Ocean, making it difficult for Britain to blockade it.

Salazar was mainly concerned about the Nazi invasion of Portugal. After the fall of France, the German team was less than 260 miles from the Portugal border.

Another concern was that Franco and Hitler might form an alliance to drive troops to the Portuguese border Salazar made a decision to cooperate with the Nazis during the war after weighing the dangers of the allies and Germany.

During World War II, the Nazis and allies launched an economic war against Portugal through threats and temptations. Portugal was unable to cut off trade relations with its allies because its oil, coal, fertilizer and grains were all imported from the United States and Canada.

Under such premise, Britain successfully persuaded Portugal to accept pound letters of credit as trade payments in October 1940. Britain's gold reserves were about to run out at that time, while Sweden, Switzerland and even the United States only accepted gold

In the first four years of the war, Portugal's total private companies almost doubled, and the Portuguese National Bank's gold reserves increased by more than three times

Portugal's economic prosperity also relies on its abundant tungsten sand resources. The Nazi imported tungsten sand mainly from Portugal and Spain. In addition to the filament used as light bulbs, tungsten also has a particularly important value in the production of arms. The German machinery industry uses high-strength tungsten carbide turning tools and drills, while the United States can only use inferior molybdenum alloys.

This is largely due to the fact that Krupp monopolized the production of tungsten carbide through patented technology. In addition, tungsten alloys are also used to manufacture armor-piercing bombs Allies believe that Germany's minimum demand for tungsten ore is 3,500 tons per year (to be continued, you are welcome to vote for monthly votes,

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