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Morgenthau, and, 161–162
Stalin, Josef, and, 347–348
visit to Moscow, 352
Hopkins, Sir RVN, 291
Horatio at the Bridge
, 285
Hossbach, Friedrich, 87, 89, 90
Hossbach Memorandum, 88
Hoxba, Enver, 431
Hull, Cordell
opposition to Morgenthau’s plan for postwar Germany, 389, 390
as Secretary of State, 262, 264–265, 266, 308–309
Hungarian General Bank, 385
Hungarian Gold Train, Allied capture of, 414
Hungarian National Bank, move of gold and personnel from, 414–415
Hungary
bauxite in, 325
fate of, 316
German invasion of, 414–415
Soviet control of, 429
stolen gold of, 440
Hunter, Edward N., 319–320
Huntziger, Charles, 311
Hutton, E. F. (brokerage firm), 1
I
Ibárruri, Dolores, 9
Ida Bakke
, 299
I.G. Farben, 34, 397, 402
backing of autarky program by, 38
backing of Hitler by, 38
Four Year Plan as boon for, 67–68
subsidization of, 67
IJmuiden, 214, 215
Imperfect Justice
(Eizenstat), 433
India
dropping of gold standard, 83
gold in, 291, 435
Ingeborg, Princess of, 180
Inntian, 190
The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
(Shaw), 4
“An International Agreement of Non-Intervention in the Present Spanish Crisis” , 12–13
International Brigades in Spanish Civil War, 9
International Court of Justice, 431
International Monetary Fund, Jacobsson as managing director of, 82
International monetary system, gold shipments to New York and, 168, 435–436
International Red Cross, 48
Isabella, Queen of Spain, 3
Ismay, Pug, 245
Istanbul, transport of gold and, 145
Italian Social Republic, 363, 365
Italy, 362–374
acceptance of non-intervention accord, 13
Allied invasion of, 203, 361
concerns on military action against Austria, 94
conquest of Albania, 197–203
demands for restitution, 430
dropping of gold standard, 83
facists in, 9
lack of objections on German agression, 89
movement of gold to U.S. and, 161
Nazi capture of gold in, 387
role of, as mediator over takeover of Poland, 134
Spanish Civil War and, 12–13, 15–16
stolen gold of, 440
Itzahoe, gold at, 417
Ivan the Terrible, 346
J
J. P. Morgan, 266
Jacobsson, Per, 81, 83–84
Jacobsson, Violet, 81
Jagiellonian University, 139
Jankovic, Miojko, 330
Janssen, Georges, x, 229, 230, 232
Japan, sales of Nazi gold and, 442
Java
, 219
Jean-Bart
, 275
Jean de Vienne
, 242
Jeanne d’Arc
, 246–247, 248–249, 250, 251, 257
Jenicz, Andrzej, 138
Jenkins, Humphrey, 298
Jewish Atonement Tax, 123
Jews.
See also
Anti-Semitism
Ashkenazy, 14
death camps and, 356, 359, 405
Final Solution and, 349
German attacks on, 70, 159
gold holdings of Austrian, 101–102
Kristallnacht
and, 120–121, 153, 358
meltdown of confiscated jewelry, 70
Jodl, Alfred, 94, 107–108, 174
Johannesen, Louis, 193, 195–196
Jones, Jesse
as chair of Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 51
U.S. prices for gold and, 54
Juliana, Princess (Netherlands), x, 212, 213–214, 263
Jurovksy, Yakov, 342–343
Jutland, German attack on, 178
K
Kaantzow, Carin von, 61
Kabataç, 145
Kaiseroda mine
discovery of German gold and paintings at, xiv–xvi
storage of valuables in, 397, 398, 399
Kaiserslautern, Allied seizure of, xiii
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 374, 417
Kappler, Herbert, 367, 374
Kaptol, Zagreb, 332
Karelia, 156
Karpi
ski, Zygmunt, 135–136, 140, 148
Katow, Edouard de, 254
Kauffman, Henrik, 176
Kayes, 319
movement of French gold, 312–313, 315
Kazan, 335
Keitel, Wilhelm, 71, 92, 94, 106, 110, 193
review of plans for Czechoslovakia, 103
Weserübung and, 174
Keith
, 216
Kennedy, Joseph, 160, 163
Keppler, Wilhelm, 92–93, 99, 101
Keynes, John Maynard, 1, 30, 56, 58, 82, 390
Khimki, 350
Khrushchev, Nikita, 156, 341
Kieselbach, command post at, xiv
Kiewitz, Werner, 236
King, W. L. Mackenzie, 255
Kinney, S. H., 319–320
Kirov
, 155
Klein, Anthony, discovery of German gold and paintings and, xiv
Kleine Ministerrat
, 65
Kleist, Paul von, 330
Knoke, L. Werner, x, 160, 164–165, 195, 267
Know-Nothing Movement, 259
Koblenz, 174
Allied seizure of, xiii
Koc, Adam, 137–140, 143
Koch, Erich, 46
Koch Storm Detachment, 231–232
Koht, Halvdan, 180
Kolchak, Alexander, 335
Koltsov, Mikhail, 13
Kommerzialbank (Kraków), 385
Königsberg, 46
Konstanz, 418
Kontinentale Bank (Brussels), 385
Kostov (code name), 388
Koszul, Julien, 279, 280, 281
Krauch, Carl, 67
Kreditanstalt, collapse of, 33
Kremenets, 140–141
Kretzschmann, Max, 127
Kristallnacht
, 120–121, 153, 358
Krivitsky, Walter, 18, 23
Kronswtadt, 155
Krosigk, Johann Schwerin von, 99, 121–122
Krosigk, Lutz von, 122, 357
Krupp, 181, 396
Kuibyshev, 350
Kummetz, Oscar, 181, 182
Künsberg, Eberhard von, 328
Ku
nierz, Tomasz, 147
Kuty, 143
Kuznetzov, Nikolai, 20
L
Laake, Kristian, 183
LaGuardia, Fiorello, 156
Lake Como, 370
Lake Garda, 363
Lake Ladoga, 156
Lammers, Hans, x
Funk, Schwedler, and, 420, 422–423
as head of Reich’s Chancellery, 72–73, 394–395, 419
as Hitler’s chief of staff, 43
Lamoricière
, 311
Lamoureaux, Lucien, 244
Laon, 244
L’Aquila, 364
Lasocki, Stanislaw, 148
Latvia, 151, 152
Soviet control over, 133, 152
Latvian Central Bank, 153
Laval, Pierre, 236–237, 253, 256, 271, 307, 315
Lavas, Nicolas, 328
Lead, 383
League of Nations, 78, 79
Lebanon, shipment of French gold to, 241
Lebensraum, 130
Lebrun, Albert, 12, 210
Le Havre, 232
Leif
, 190
Leka, Crown Prince, 201
Le Mans, 240
Lend-Lease program, 304–305, 352, 354
Lenin, Vladimir, 131, 335–336
embalmed body of, 343–344
Leningrad, 156, 394
Leonding, 98
Leopold III, King of Belgium, 227, 233, 235, 294
Levant, 145
Le Verdon, 237, 277, 281
shipment of gold to, 244
Leyden, 210
Library of Fine Arts, 396
Lie, Trygve, 185
Liebenau monastery, gold at, 417
Liége, 231
Lillehammer, storage of gold at, 177, 182–183, 184, 185
Lindberg, Charles, 301
Linz, 98
Lisbon, sending of gold to, 311
Lithuania, 151, 152
German control over, 133, 163
return of gold to, after breakup of the Soviet Union, 155
Soviet invasion of, 152
Littlepage, John, 336
Litvinov, Maxim, 15, 22, 131, 337
Liverpool
, 354
Lizard Point, 194
Löb, Wilhelm, 67
Loeb, Gerald M., as founding partner of E. F. Hutton, 1
London
as financial capital, 80, 292
foreign deposits in, 293
Swedish shipment of gold to, 381
London blitz, 301
London Economic Conference, 57
London Gold Conference (1997), 361, 383, 416, 427
London Gold Pool, 436
London Peace Conference of 1912-1913, 198
Lords of Finance
(Alamed), 4–5
Lorient
evacuation of, 275
gold transfer from, 270, 307
Lorraine
, 242
L’Osservatore Romano
, 261, 262
Lothian, Lord, 302
Low countries.
See also
Belgium; Luxembourg; Netherlands
German invasion of, 70, 242, 262, 380
munitions purchases of, 161
Lubbe, Marinus van der, 35
Lubeck, storage of records in Merkers, 396
Lublin, 138–139, 359
regional bank office in, 136
Ludwigshafen, Allied seizure of, xiii
Lufthansa, 61–62
Luleå, 174
Luther, Hans
as German ambassador to Washington, 36
offering of Schacht the job of ending German inflation, 28
as Reichsbank President, 35
Lutsk, 140
Polish gold in, 141, 142
Luxembourg
central bank of, 228
demands for restitution, 430
early history of, 228
German attack on, 206
gold of, 228, 312
monetary union with Belgium, 228
Nazi objective of conquering, 173
stolen gold of, 440
Luxembourg gold, 312
M
Maassluis, 220
Maastricht, 231
Macaulay, Lord, 285
Madagascar, Jews and Nazi opponent immigration to, 120
Madeira Islands, 248
Magdeburg, Reichsbank offices in, 399
Maginot Line, 110, 231, 242
Maglioni, Luigi, 265
Mainz, Allied seizure of, xiii
Malenkov, Georgy, 345
Malraux, Andre, 12
Manganese
German need for, 165
U.S. buy up of, 165
Manila fiber, German need for, 165
Mannerheim, Carl, 156
Manstein, Erich von, 205–206, 243
Mansur, David, 297
Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess, 227
Marienbad, 420
Marseillaise
, 242
Marseilles, 317
Belgian and Luxembourg gold in, 316
shipment of gold from, 241
Marshall, George, 405
Marshall, James W., discovery of gold in California, 4
Marshall Plan, 381
Martinique, gold in, 254, 256, 307, 310, 435
Marx, Harpo, 337
Marxism, danger of, to Germany, 64
Mathieu, Jean, protection of Belgian assets, 229–230

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