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.
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.
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.
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SELECTED WEBSITES
Bank for International Settlements,
http://www.bis.org
Centre for European Studies,
http://www.cvce.eu
Economics resource,
http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com
Economics and finance resource,
http://www.econlib.org
The Economist
magazine,
http://www.economist.com
European University Institute,
http://www.eui.eu
Financial Times
,
http://www.ft.com
Investopedia finance resource,
http://www.investopedia.com
New York Times
,
http://www.nytimes.com
Holocaust research resource,
http://www.nizkor.org
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum,
http://www.trumanlibrary.org
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http://www.wollheim-memorial.de
US Department of State, Office of the Historian,
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A
Abacha, Sani,
259
Abs, Hermann,
153–154
,
184
,
187–188
,
192–193
,
197
Adenauer, Konrad,
159
Agreement for Intra-European Payments and Compensation,
166
The Alchemy Murder
(Jacobssen),
52
Aldrich, Nelson,
137
Aldrich, Richard,
173
Aldrich, Winthrop,
137
Alien Property Custodian,
102
,
118
,
146
Alkali Export Association (Alkasso),
143
Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation,
37
Allied Tripartite Commission,
127
,
132–133
Ambros, Otto,
159
American Committee for a United Europe,
173
American-Nazi financial network,
99–102
,
104–109
Arendt, Hannah,
183
Argentina, dispute over reserves of,
260–261
Arnold, Thurman,
101
Ashton-Gwatkin, Frank,
70–71
Asian debt crisis (1997),
238
Auboin, Roger,
xviii
,
61
,
81
,
86
,
94
,
116
,
192
See also
IG Auschwitz
Australia,
198
Axis powers, BIS gold transactions for,
86–87
B
Baer, Gunther,
212
Baker, Dean,
252
Baltic gold, management of by BIS,
79–80
,
206
Banco Zaragozano,
57
Bank deutscher Länder,
151
,
175
,
219
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
American presidents of,
109
annual reports,
25
,
52–53
,
208
,
236
,
256–254
Argentine reserves, dispute over,
260–261
authorized activities of,
21–22
available information about,
xvi–xvii
,
xvii–xviii
Baltic gold, management of,
79–80
,
206
Basel Committee rules,
241
buy-back of shares, dispute over,
242–243
as Cold War information channel,
201–202
collapse of Soviet Union, role of in,
205
current status,
255–257
Czechoslovak gold affair,
59–63
ECSC, as transitional bank for,
174–175
effect of World War II on,
84–85
employees,
23–24
European Currency Unit (ECU), agent for,
210
European Monetary Cooperation Fund, agent for,
210
European Payments Union (EPU), agent for,
167
European unification, role in,
208–211
,
258
Eurozone crisis, role in,
xx–xxi
evacuation of headquarters in World War II,
80–81
existence, question of need for,
262–263
fund transfer procedure,
22–23
funding of Holocaust by,
258
future of,
270
globalization of,
228
gold, looted,
53
,
78
,
85
,
132
,
261–263
gold standard and,
42
gold transactions of,
67–68
,
86–87
,
114–115
governors’ monthly meeting,
xii–xiii
,
49–50
,
256
Hague Convention, signing of,
20
hostility toward,
89
insider trading by,
41
legal inviolability of,
14
,
20
,
42
,
263
,
265–268
liquidation of, motion for,
122–124
location, choice of,
13
Marshall Plan payments, as clearinghouse for,
146–147
Nazi Germany, relationship with,
33
,
51
,
78–79
,
84–87
,
114–115
,
123
,
125–127
,
256
post–World War II survival of,
139–140
,
147–148
,
167
,
175–176
problems caused by member financial policies,
245–246
purpose,
xix–xxi
,
5
,
20
,
42–43
,
53–54
Reichsbank gold account in,
85
rescue packages, coordination of,
206–207
reserve currency rescue, coordination of,
193
as safe haven from creditors,
261–262
secrecy, tradition of,
xv–xviii
,
259
social responsibility, need for,
268–269
transnational economy, role of in,
xxii–xxiii
transparency, need for,
267–268
United States, blockage of transactions by,
95
,
111
,
133
warnings about easy credit,
238–240
wartime intelligence, conduit for,
113
,
116–117
,
127–131
See also
BIS committees
Bank of America,
169
Bank of England,
28
,
29
,
59–61
,
67
,
83
,
110
,
122
,
189
,
191
,
245
,
257
Bank of France,
28
,
29
,
61
,
62
,
65
,
69
,
85
,
175
Bank of France (Vichy),
86–87
Bank of Greece’s missing gold,
23
Bank of Japan,
257
Bank of Portugal,
114
Bank of Russia,
206
Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart,
145
Bankers’ Almanac and Yearbook
,
64
Bankers’ Magazine
, on neutrality of BIS reports,
52
Bankhaus Herstatt,
207
Banks, war and,
29–30
Baranski, Leon,
79
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision,
xxi–xxiv
,
207–208
,
240
,
256–257
,
271
BASF,
225
Bayer,
225
Bear Sterns,
239
Beevor, Antony,
218
Belgian gold reserves, fate of,
85–86