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To: c.hinton who wrote (237377)	7/21/2007 1:38:51 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I beleive there were also laws limiting the possesions one could leave with.....the price of a visa was often the wealth of the family turned over for a pitance to nazi favorites. That was true all over Europe during the depression. You could not legally move money across borders. The rich used subterfuges like having third parties open Swiss bank accounts. Other people bought gemstones and smuggled them out in their clothing. My grandmother left Europe with a diamond brooch on her lapel and claimed it was paste. My father told me a funny story about the friend of the family who took a train across Europe. In those days the train cars had thick hooks cast of nickel in the cars to hang your coat up on. The friend unscrewed the hooks, and tossed them out the window as soon as the train was well underway, replacing them with two cast metal hooks of the same shape that he had in his pockets. When he reached his destination, he unscrewed the hooks again and took them with him. The difference being, the hooks he tossed had been made of nickel. The hooks he took with him across Europe were cast of platinum.

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