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Craig, Alexander, 295, 296, 297
Creasy, G. E., 218, 219
Creditanstalt-Bankverein, 385
Crete, British presence on, 327
Crichton, Robert, 367
Croatia, 415
Croatian Landerbank, 385
Croatian State Bank, gold of, 415–416
Croesus of Lydia, 2
Currency banks, 70
Czech National Bank, turnover of gold reserve to Reichsbank, 111
Czechoslovakia, 103, 104–117
alliance with France, 89, 105–106
alliance with Soviet Union, 106
Case Green plan for military takeover of, 106, 107
Chamberlain and takeover of, 107, 108–110
conquest of, 118–119
demands for restitution, 430
DSK operations in, 70
ethnic groups of, 105
German takeover of, 89, 104–117, 130, 163, 200, 319
gold of, 105, 111–112, 159, 160
minorities in, 106
Munich agreement and, 161
proposal to split Sudetenland off from, 108
sending gold to Reichsbank, 115–117
Škoda industrial complex in, 105–106
Soviet control of, 429
stolen gold of, 440
takeover of iron and steel facilities in, 68
Czechs
language of, 105
as pygmy race, 108
D
Dakar, 283, 307–320
British attack on ships in, 308
reinforcement of, 314
Daladier, Édouard, 110, 243–244, 245
Danat Bank, 27, 33
Danish central bank, gold sales and, 167
Danzig, stolen gold of, 440
Danzig Corridor, 134
Dardanelles, 316
Darlan, Jean-François, 147–148, 238, 253, 308
Dartmouth, 234
Dauchau concentration camp, 356
de Bletterie, 251, 252, 253
Dee, Walter R., 426
de Gaulle, Charles, 205, 307
Free French Army and, 253, 307, 312, 313, 314
as leader of anti-Bretton Woods offensive, 436
talk with Churchill, 314
Degussa, 359, 360, 373, 427
Nazi gold program and, 385–386
De Jong, A. M., 214
De Jong, Klaas, 215–216
Delfdijk
, 208
Denis, henri, 233
Denmark, 151
German occupation of, 174, 175, 177–178
golden inheritance and, 176
sending of bullion to U.S., 164
D’Entrecasteaux
, 247
Deutsche Bank, role in laundering of stolen Nazi gold, 385
Deutsche Orient-Bank (Turkey), 385
Deutsch Handels- und Kreditbank (Bratislava), 385
Devisenschutzkommando
(Foreign Exchange Protection Commando), 69–70, 224, 252
Devonshire
, 192, 193
D’Iberville
, 247
Dildy, Douglas, 177–178
Dilectissima Nobis (On Oppression of the Church of Spain)
, 9
Dill, John, 245
Dinant, 242–243
Directive No. 1, 95, 134
Directive No. 2, 98
Directive No. 6, 173
Directive No. 17, 323
Directive No. 21, 334
Directive No. 25, 327
Dnieper, 349
Dodd, William, 46, 74
Doggerel verse about warfare, xiii
Dohle
(freight train), 420, 421, 422
Dollfuss, Engelbert, murder of, 91, 94
Dönitz, Karl, 294–295
Dormer, Sir Cecil, 192–193
Douglas, Lewis W., 53
Doyçe Bank, 385
Dragonovi
, Krunoslav, 416
Draper, Alfred, 217
Dresden, fire bombing of, 413
Dresdner Bank, role in laundering of stolen Nazi gold, 385
Driva
, 189, 190
Drøbak, 181
Dubno, 141
Dulles, Allen, 380
Dunkirk, 271
besiege of, 234
evacuation of, 248, 279, 285, 294
Dunning, Charles, 287
Dürer, Albrecht, engravings of, 397, 404
Durres, 202
Dutch.
See
Netherlands
Dutch Army Aviation Brigade, 218
Dutch Central Bank
gold of, 207
Rotterdam branch of, 212
Dutch National Bank, Rotterdam branch of, 220–221
Dvina, 349
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks, 14
E
Easter holiday, 398–399, 401
Eastern Maginot Line, 89
East Prussia, 134
Eccles, Marriner, 160, 264
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
(Keynes), 30
Eddy, Manton S., discovery of German gold and paintings and, xvi
Eden, Anthony, 12, 26, 390
Edison, Thomas, on gold, 1
Ehrenberg, Ilya, 13
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, 402
Eidgenössische Bank, sales of Nazi gold and, 442
Eilertsen, Hanna, 190–190
Einsiedel, 424, 427
Einzig, Paul, 32, 114
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Bernstein and, 388
discovery of German gold and paintings and, xvi
money and gold issues and, 360–361
on Morganthau plan, 392
regulations against looting, 408, 409
request for audit of gold in Frankfurt, 410–411
responsibility for gold and, 401
tour of Room #8, 404–405
Eizenstat Commission, 416, 432, 433
El Djezaïr
, 270, 272, 275, 276, 308
Elizabeth, Queen, visit to U.S., 288
El Kantara
, 272, 308, 309
El Mansour
, 270
Emergency Banking Act, 52
Émile Bertin
, 146, 147, 148, 246, 247, 248–249, 254, 255
Empress of Australia
, 286
Enabling Act (1933), 36
Engelbrecht, Erwin, 181
Enterprise
, 192
Epée
, 274, 275
Épervier
, 148, 272
Erfurt, 396
gold in, 409
Reichsbank offices in, 399
Eriksen, Birger, 181
Eschwege, gold in, 409
Estonia, 151, 152
Soviet control over, 133, 152
Ethnic genocide, 159
Ethnic self-determination, 151
Europe, shape of post-war, 389–390
Évian-les-Bains, conference at, 260
F
Falkenhorst, Nicholaus von, Weserübung and, 174–175, 176, 183
Fall Weiss (Case White), 128
Fall Weserübung
(Case Weser Exercise), 174, 175
Farinacci, Roberto, 262
Farley, James, 259
Farm Credit Administration, 51
Fascists, 8, 9
Federal Farm Board, 50–51
Federal Reserve Bank of New York City, 153, 160
Belgian gold in, 230, 231
Dutch bullion at, 207
French gold in, 241–242, 309
gold storage at, 162, 164
international role of, 5
Italian deposits in, 161
Latvia Central Bank and, 153
Reichsbank gold and, 29–30
reports on gold sales and, 166–167
resignation of McGarrah as chairman of, 81
Russian Federation account at, 337
under Strong, Benjamin, 77
Swedish shipment of gold to, 381
Vatican gold and, 264–266
Yugoslav gold at, 329–330
Federal Reserve System, 160
Feldbin, Leiba Lazarevich, 14.
See also
Orlov, Alexander
Feldel, Lev Lazarevice, 14
Felsennest
(Rocky Eyrie), 210
Ferdinand, King of Spain, 3, 6
Ferdinand I of Austria, 369
Finland, 151
efforts to build up gold stock, 155
sale of gold and, 167
Soviet control over, 133, 156
First National Bank of Chicago, as member of Bank of International Settlements, 80
First National Bank of New York, as member of Bank of International Settlements, 80
Fischer, Franz, 67
Fischer, Louis, 16
Fischer-Tropsch method, 67
Fishguard, battle of, 322
Fishkill Farms, Morganthau, Henry, Jr., work at, 48, 49
Flanders, 227
Flanders Fields, 227
Flensburg, German attack on, 178
Florence, 324
Florina, 202
Floyar-Rajchman, Henryk, ix, 139, 140, 141, 143, 148
Flynn, Francis Cyril, 296
Fogg Museum, 403
Fokker, 61
Food Administration under Hoover, 48
Force Z, 241
Foreign Economic Administration, 389
Fort-de-France, 254, 256
Fort de Portzic, gold stored at, 270
Fort Desaix, 256, 257
Fort Eben-Emael, 231
Fortezza, 369, 370, 371, 372
Fort Knox, 158–171
gold capacity of, 169
shipment of gold to, 169–170
Fort Portzic, evacuation of gold from, 272
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(Hemingway), 13
Fournier, Pierre-Eugène, ix, 113, 148–149, 231, 234, 244, 251–252, 281
Four Year Plan, 38, 64–65, 66, 67, 68–69. 70, 87, 224, 317, 371, 396
France
alliance with Czechoslovia, 89, 105–106
arms purchase by, 161, 163–164, 241, 246
bullion standard of, 83
Carthaginian peace on Germany and, 24
Cash and Carry program and, 166
collapse of, 270
currency devaluation in, 240
declaration of war against Germany, 135
demand for reparations from Germany, 30
DSK confiscation of gold in Northern, 70
efforts to stop Spanish Civil War and, 12–13
fall of, 239–257
Free French Army and, 253, 307, 313, 314
German invasion of, 70, 279–280
German occupation of, 307
gold assets of, 170, 240–241
Hitler’s premise on weakness of, 88–89
inflation in, 240
interest in armistice, 253
movement of gold and, 232, 240–241, 244, 246–247
mutual defense treaty with Poland, 133, 134
obligations of, under treaty with Poland, 134
Pétain, Marshal Philippe, government of, 236–237, 253, 256, 271, 307, 315
Popular Front in, 240
refugees in, 246
resignation of Reynaud, Paul, 253
return of money to Lithuania, 155
Spanish purchase of armaments from, 13
strategic reserves of, 245
Vichy, 307, 312, 318, 368
write off of Czechoslovakia and, 89
France, Battle of, 322
Franco, Francisco, 9, 10, 90, 324
command of Army of Africa, 12
receipt of laundered German gold, 383
in Spanish Civil War, 17
Franco-Prussian War, 243, 386
reparations at end of, 30
Frank, Karl Hermann, 357
Frankfur (Oder), 396
Frankfurt
audit of gold in, 410–411
move of Merkers gold to, 402, 403, 406–410
Franzensfeste, 368, 369
Fraser, Leon, 81
Free City of Danzig, 136
Freedom Action Bavaria movement, 423
Free French army, 253, 307, 313, 314
Freetown, Sierre Leone, 290
Freising, 421
French Africa, 324
French Algieria, 308
French Antilles, 256
French Central Bank, spread of gold from, 309–310
French-held gold repatriation, 317
French National Bank
Belgian gold at, 230, 232, 272
evidence on stolen gold and, 378
gold shipment to U.S. and, 270
headquarters of, in Clermont-Ferrand, 310–311
Lorient vault of, 273
Polish gold at, 140
shipment of French gold by, 242, 275–276
French South-Atlantic Company, 250
Frères, Lazard, 5
Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft
(Friends Economic Circle), 93
Frick, Wilhelm, 99
Fritsch, Werner von, 87, 89
release from duty, 90
replacement of, 119
Fritz Thyssen (steel magnate), 61–62
Frommknecht, 357, 399, 406
Fugone, 267
Fuller, J. F. C., 205
Fummi, Giovanni, 265
Funk, Walther
on Allied discovery of Merkers gold, 399–400
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