Sunday, August 04, 2013

Documents reveal Bank of England sold stolen gold for Nazis http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/88039-documents-reveal-bank-of-england-sold-stolen-gold-for-nazis 'The Bank of England's involvement in the sale of gold stolen by Nazis following the invasion of Czechoslovakia has been revealed in newly released documents. Archived material released by the BoE details how the gold bars were sold on behalf of Germany's central bank, the Reichsbank, in 1939, after being seized during the Nazi invasion, despite the fact that British government had frozen all Czech assets being held in London at the time. The BoE documents have been made public following the first stage of the digitalisation of the bank's archive.' Read more: Documents reveal Bank of England sold stolen gold for Nazis Sent by gReader

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