Chasing Gold: The Incredible Story of How the Nazis Stole Europe's Bullion (91 page)

Tromsø, 191, 192

Trondheim, British and French invasion of, 177

Tropsch, Hans, 67

Trotsky, Leon, Stalin and, 12

Truman, Harry, at Potsdam, 429

Tsimicalis, Panayotis, 328

Tuka, Vojtech, 110

Tungsten, 39

German need for, 165

Turin, 367

Turkey

chromium in, 40, 325, 384

demand of money from Poland for transit of gold, 146

negotiations with the Allies, 432

sales of Nazi gold and, 442

tungsten in, 325, 384

wartime activities of, 431

Turkish National Bank, gold transfer to, 167

Turnip winter of 1917, 37

Twilight War, 205

Tyumen, 344

, 353

U-boats, 144, 147, 193, 289, 319

Ukraine, 156

wheat production in, 38–39

Ulman, battle of, 349

Unaterwegen, Dr., 417

Unilever, 115

Union Bank of Switzerland

Hitler, Adolph’s account at, 379

sales of Nazi gold and, 442

Union Pacific Railroad, 4

United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, 168

United States

anti-Semitism in, 50

dropping of gold standard, 83

gold production in, 437

as isolationist, 79, 241

movement of gold to, 161, 164

on reparations from Germany, 30

Soviet gold shipments to, 338

Upper Silesia, 134

Ural Mountains, 341

Ural River, 341

U.S. Federal Reserve, as nonmember of Bank of International Settlements, 80

U.S. Steel, 260

, 319

, 319, 320

, 53

, 260, 303, 304

, 279, 280–281

Ustaša, 415–416

Utrecht, 210

V-1 and V-2 guided missiles, 394, 418

Vanderpoorten, Arthur, 233

, 220

Varga, Eugen, 391

Vasilevich, Ivan, 18

Vaterland, xiii

Vatican.

Roman Catholic Church

gold of, 258–268

information source for, 262

San Sirolamo Degli Illirici, College of, in, 416

silence of, on Yugoslav gold, 416

Taylor, Myron, as Roosevelt’s representative to, 259–268

, 148

, 272

Veick, Werner, 398, 399, 402

interrogation of, on German gold, xv

Veit, Josef, 425

Vereinigte Stahlwerke, 34

Versailles Treaty (1919), 24, 163

as anti-German, 130

demand for reparations in, 30

unpopularity of, with German public, 30

(Fortress Holland), 210

Vian, Philip, 185, 296

Vichy France, 307, 312, 318, 368

Victor Emmanuel, resume of rule by, 363

, 270, 273, 274, 275, 276, 309

, 270, 308, 309

, 277

, 270, 308

Vilnius, Lithuania, Soviet capture of, 152

Viner, Jacob, belief in balanced budget, 58

Virgil, 1

Visnes, 190

Vitebsk, 346

Vladivostok, 338

arrival of gold in, 354

Vocke, Wilhelm, service on the Reichsbank board, 32

Vögler, Albert, 34

(Soviet ship), 20, 21, 22

von Strauss, Emil Georg, 31

Voronov, Marshall Nikolai, 156, 157

Vucht, Belgium, 173

Vyazma, 346

-SS, 421

(Tooze), 103

Walchensee (Lake Walchen), 423, 424, 426, 427

Walker, Archibald V., 146

Wallace, Henry, as Secretary of Agriculure, 50

Wallonia, 227

Wall Street crash (October 1929), 82

Warfare, doggerel verse about, xiii

Warren, George F., 51–52

ideas of, 53

mending of U.S. economy and, 59

return to Cornell, 59

theories on farm goods, 56

U.S. prices for gold and, 54

Warsaw.

Poland

fall of, 173

Waterloo, 227

Webb, Geoffrey, 403

Weimar, 409

Welles, Sumner, 303

Wellington, 227

Weser

bung Nord, 175, 179

Weser

bung Süd, 175

Western Zones of Germany, 429

West German Bundesbank, Blessing as president of, 82

Westrap, Gisele von, 417

Whitcomb, Colonel, discovery of German gold and paintings and, xiv–xvi

White, Harry Dexter, xi, 116, 325

as author of

, 392

as co-chair of Bretton Woods conference, 381

collaboration with Morganthau, Henry, Jr. on handling Germany’s postwar economy, 388, 389

as financial advisor to Morganthau, 58–59, 165

international monetary system and, 435–436

plan on waging economic warfare on Gemany and, 165, 166

study on future of gold, 168–169, 171

ties to Moscow, 349

Whitsun, 208–209

Wiedemann, Hans, 97

Wiehl, Emil, 325

Wiesbaden Commission, 311, 314–315

Wilfred, 177

Wilhelm, Karl Friedrich, 98

Wilhelmina, Queen (Netherlands), xi, 211, 212, 213, 217

desire for exile in Britain, 222

Willems Bridge, 212

William the Conqueror, 322

Wilson, Woodrow, 57, 159

administration of, 48, 50

commitment to national self-determination of ethnic groups, 105

Fourteen Points of, 105

League of Nations and, 79

self-determination and, 151, 198

Winkelman, Henri Gerard, 213

Wintershall, 397

Winter War, 155–156, 157

Winzer (Soviet Trade Attaché), 18

Witold, 138

Witte, Dr., 397–398

Wolff, Karl, 357, 394

Wolfram, 39

Wolfsberg, 415–416

Wood, Sir Kingsley, xi, 265, 293, 301

Woodin, William, 53, 56

World Economic Conference (London 1933), 52–53

World economic crisis (1931), 33

World financial system, control of, by central bankers, 77–85

World War I

anger in Germany after defeat in, 24

causes of, 159

U.S. entrance into, 48

World War II, start of, 240

Worms, Allied seizure of, xiii

Würzburg, 225

Xavier 337, 253

Yagoda, Genrikh, 15

Yalta meeting, 391, 402–403

, 277

Yekaterinburg, 342

Yezhov, Nikolai, 22–23

Young, Owen, 78–79

Schacht and, 78–79

Younghusband, John, 219–220, 222

Young Plan, 30, 79

Yugoslavia, 327

aluminum in, 325

demands for restitution, 430

gold of, 329, 415–416, 440

Zamo

Polish gold in, 141, 142

regional bank office in, 136

Zeeland, German attack on, 178

Zhukov, Georgy, 340, 345, 350, 351, 411

Soviet offensive against Germany, 394

Ziegler, Jean, 377, 432

Zinc, 383

Zoepffel, Kurt, 182

Zog, King of the Albanians, xi, 202–203

Mussolini’s demands for, 200–201

Zogu, Ahmed Bey, 198, 200

Zolski, Ryszard, 138

Zwickau, gold in, 409

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