Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World (53 page)

       
as founder of BIS,
xvii

       
as General Plenipotentiary for the War Economy,
46

       
on Germany’s armaments program,
46

       
Germany’s debt obligation, rewriting of,
38–39

       
Hitler, attempt to bring down,
48

       
Israel, inadvertent visit to,
162–163

       
Jews, emigration plan for,
48

       
lecture tour,
24

       
Montagu Norman, friendship with,
9
,
30
,
44–45
,
162

       
Nazi party, assessment of,
33–34
,
47–48

       
The Old Wizard
(autobiography),
11

       
Owen Young, bank proposal to,
12

       
prestige of,
51

       
as Reich currency commissioner,
6–7

       
Reichsbank, as president of,
7
,
33
,
70

       
Reichsbank funds, manipulation of by,
46

       
on trial at Nuremberg,
139

       
Young Plan, anger at,
14
,
24

Schacht, Luise,
14

Schacht, Manci,
163
,
195

Schacht, Wilhelm (Hjalmar’s father),
8

Schacht, Wilhelm (Hjalmar’s grandfather),
8

Schacht & Company bank,
162

Schellenberg, Walter,
118–119

Schering company,
118

Schiller, Karl,
193

Schindler, Dieter,
79–80

Schleminger, Gunther,
201

Schmidt, Orvis,
123
,
124–126

Schmitz, Hermann,
35–36
,
50–51
,
149
,
158
,
159

Schnitzler, Georg von,
129–130
,
158

Schrobanco,
17
,
18

Schroder, Bruno von,
35

Schröder, Kurt Freiherr von,
34–35
,
38
,
159
,
187

Schubert, Heinz Hermann,
159

Sequel to the Apocalypse: The Uncensored Story—How Your Dimes and Quarters Pay for Hitler’s War
(Booktab),
102

Seyss-Inquart, Arthur,
221

Sheets, Nathan,
235
,
250

Sibert, Anne,
244

Siegman, Charles J.,
229

Simon, John,
61
,
63

Simpson, Christopher,
184

65th Annual Report
(BIS),
237

Skinner, Thomas,
64

Slovakia,
xxii

Slovenia,
xxii

Small Working Group,
153

Smith, Walter Bedell,
173

Snake in the Tunnel,
xxi
,
209
,
222

Solvay & Cie,
143
,
170

Solvay American Investment Corporation,
37

South Africa,
198

Soviet Union,
55
,
79–80
,
129
,
205
,
206

Spain,
55–56
,
198

Spanish Civil War, role of transnational capital in,
54–57

Special Drawing Right,
268

Spitzweg, Carl,
46

Square Mile,
227

SS (Schutzstaffel), financial empire of,
154–155

Stability and Growth Pact (1997),
231

Standard Oil,
36
,
100–102
,
121

Steffeck, Clara,
7

Stephens, Glenn,
248

Sterling Products,
101

Stimson, Henry,
32
,
131
,
144

Strauss, George,
59

Streit, Clarence K.,
15

Strong, Benjamin,
3
,
214

Sudetenland,
53
,
59

Sullivan and Cromwell,
16
,
18
,
75
,
170

Sunday Times
(London), on Mark Carney,
249

Sweden,
xi
,
25
,
84
,
108–109
,
116–117
,
119

Swiss Bank Corporation,
118

Swiss Federal Council,
261
,
263

Swiss National Bank,
87–88
,
114–115

Switzerland

       
BIS, defense of immunities of,
261

       
in European Payments Union,
167

       
on Financial Stability Board,
257

       
General Agreement to Borrow, contribution to,
191

       
gold, storage of in,
115

       
gold-for-coal arrangement with Germany,
87

       
Hague Convention, signing of,
20

       
as intelligence-gathering location,
113

       
as intermediary,
91

       
in London Gold Pool,
188

       
neutrality of,
81
,
84
,
91
,
109

       
Romanian oil, buyer of,
98

T

Taibbi, Matt,
257

Tasca, Henry,
88

Teagle, Foundation,
104

Teagle, Walter,
36
,
100
,
104

Thyssen, Fritz,
145

Tiarks, Frank,
17
,
34
,
35

Tietmeyer, Hans,
226

Times
(London), on London Gold Pool,
189

Toniolo, Gianni,
20
,
22
,
29
,
68
,
264

Tower of Babel, story of,
255
,
271

Treaty of Paris (1951),
167

Treaty of Rome (1957),
217

Tribune de Lausanne
, on BIS wartime activities,
132

Trichet, Jean-Claude,
242
,
252–253

Trip, Leonardus,
34

Trott zu Solz, Adam von,
99

Turkey,
87
,
167
,
198

U

Unilever,
183
,
187

Union Banking Corporation,
145–146

United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1944),
121–125

United States

       
BIS, investigation of,
82

       
BIS, opposition to,
32
,
89

       
blockage of BIS transactions by,
95
,
111
,
133

       
chemical companies, lawsuits against,
143

       
continuation of links with German industry,
119–121
,
129

       
ESCU, loan to,
174–175

       
gold reserves of,
55–56

       
gold standard,
42

       
influence on postwar Europe,
173

       
in London Gold Pool,
188

       
monitor of export of German capital,
156

       
monitor of Wallenbergs and Enskilda Bank,
118

       
Nazi industrial espionage in,
101

       
Spanish civil war, view of,
56

United States, takeover of GAF by Treasury Department,
102

Urbig, Franz,
74

V

Vaulx, Charles de,
243

Vocke, Wilhelm,
151–152

Volcker, Paul,
xiii
,
206
,
231

Völkischer Beobachter
newspaper,
76

Voorhis, Horace Jeremiah,
97

Vossische Zeitung
newspaper,
130

Vulture funds,
260

W

W. A. Harriman bank,
144

Wall Street, 1929 crash of,
10

Wall Street Journal
, on BIS-Argentine dispute,
261

Wallenberg, Jacob,
74
,
116–117
,
197

Wallenberg, Marcus,
74
,
116–118
,
192

Wallenberg, Raoul,
74

War, banks and,
29–30

“War and Economics: Spanish Civil War Finances Revisited” (Martín-Aceña, Ruiz, and Pons),
55

Warburg, Eric,
150
,
151
,
176
,
197–198

Warburg, Freddie,
160

Warburg, Paul,
18
,
36

Warburg, Sigmund,
151
,
195

Washington Post
, on Basel Committee on Banking Supervision,
256

Watson, Thomas,
105
,
109–110
,
144

Weber, Ernst,
87
,
89–91

Weekes, Lisa,
261
,
270

Weidemann, Jens,
263

Weiser, Felix,
60

Weitz, John,
7

West Germany,
167
,
182
,
188

White, Harry Dexter,
95
,
96
,
121–123
,
141–142

White, William,
228
,
238
,
244
,
259

William III, King of England,
29

Williamson, David,
119

Wilson, Woodrow,
32

Winant, John Gilbert,
73
,
82

Wolff, Julius,
31

Wood, Kingsley,
89

Woods, Sam,
161–162

World Bank,
121
,
139
,
257

Worsthorne, Peregrine,
4
,
162

Y

Yap, Micronesia,
68

Young, Owen D.,
9
,
18
,
140

Young Plan (1929),
xviii
,
12–13
,
41
,
192

Z

Zeiss lens company,
156

Zhou Xiaochuan,
xi
,
261

Zijlstra, Jelle,
171–172
,
193–194
,
206

Zyklon B,
104