“With London, Paris, and Basel’s compliance, Nazi Germany looted 23.1 metric tons of gold without a shot being fired. More than two-thirds of that gold was traded with the Dutch and Belgian national banks and was eventually transported from Amsterdam and Brussels to the Reichsbank’s vaults in Berlin. Czechoslovakia’s diligent planning to safeguard its national gold reserves, together with its misplaced faith in the integrity of the new international financial system, had come to nothing. [..] Churchill himself demanded to know how the government could urge people to enlist in the military when it was ‘so butter-fingered that six million pounds of gold can be transferred to the Nazi government.'”
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