This may be it!!!!!!!
National Archives and Records Administration
ALIC: Archives Library Information Center
Holocaust-Era Assets
Records and Research at the
National Archives and Records
Administration
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1. Aalders, Gerard and Cees Wiebes. The art of cloaking ownership: the secret collaboration
and protection of the German war industry by the neutrals: the case of Sweden. Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University Press and the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation,
1996. v, 210 pp.
Note: The authors deal with the activities of Swedish businessmen, representing "neutral"
banks and corporations, who cooperated with their counterparts in Nazi-Germany;
specifically, there is a focus on the Wallenberg family and their Stockholm Enskilda Bank.
Cloaking, or hiding the true Nazi business ownership from Allies is noted, as is the way
neutral banks, including Enskilda, helped to dispose of assets looted from occupied territory
or Jews.
3. Aarons, Mark and John Loftus. Unholy trinity: the Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss banks.
Revised ed. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998. xviii, 392 pp.
Note: This book has caused considerable controversy since it first appeared in 1991 as
Ratlines; based on British codebreaking of Swiss bank messages, it tells how western money
and stolen Nazi money was laundered through Switzerland and then out through the
Vatican Bank, the one bank that could not be audited, to South America and back to
Germany. The paradoxical role of the Dulles brothers as members of the US intelligence
community with connections to German business leaders and the Vatican is detailed. The
authors, reporting on the Vatican's Nazi-smuggling network at the end of the war that sent
fugitives mostly to Argentina where they were welcomed by the Perons, conclude that the
smuggling venture was primarily for the financial interests of non-German investors,
including the Vatican.
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3. Ain, Stewart. "Nazi gold stored in NY: Federal Reserve stash may contain fillings pulled
from Jewish victims of Holocaust". Jewish Week 209, no.21(September 20, 1996): 1.
Note: According to recently declassified documents, a pile of gold bars, believed to be the
largest repository of gold in the world, is stored in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
vaults in lower Manhattan. The declassified State Department documents indicate that the
cache includes tons of Nazi gold found at the Merkers salt mine in Germany.
Filed in the Library at A8. (Federal Reserve Bank of N.Y. helped with bailout of LTCM!!!)
4. Andrews, Edmund L. "Swiss bank's discarded files saved by night watchman". New York
Times(January 17, 1997).
Note: Christoph Meili, a night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland, found in the
bank's shredding room two large bins on wheels filled with books and paper relating to
financial data for the 1930s and the 1940s. When Meili made the finding public, the bank
noted that it had shredded many documents before his finding and that the materials had
been reviewed by their historian. (USB - bailout of LTCM!)
9. "Bank balances in the Netherlands East Indies". In Nazi gold: the London Conference, 2-4
December 1997, 371-374. London: HMSO, 1997. (Dutch gold sale!)
Note: This paper tells of the Japanese liquidation of Dutch banks in the Netherlands East
Indies and how the banks handled claims after the war.
Shelved in the Library at HV6665.G3L66 1997.
10. The Bank for International Settlements and the Basel meetings. Basle: Bank for
International Settlements, 1980. 153 pp. (Published on the occasion of the fiftieth
anniversary, 1930-1980). (Didn't the BIS do a "gold sale"?)
13. "Bern, December 19, 1996: Naming of the Independent Commission of Experts and
instructions of the Federal Council: historic and legal research on the fate of assets in
Switzerland resulting from National Socialist rule". In Report to the Treasurer of New York
State and the Comptroller of New York City, 4-page Section 6A. n.p.: Credit Suisse Group,
Swiss Bank Corporation and Union Bank of Switzerland, December 1, 1997.
Note: Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs release on the naming of the
Independent Commission of Experts chaired by Jean-Francois Bergier. The Commission is
made up of historians including Holocaust specialists, World War II historians and two
economic historians knowledgeable about Swiss history of the World War II period. Their
assignment is to study the part played by Switzerland and its financial role within the context
of World War II. (ALL, NOTE THE BANK NAMES HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! - bailed out LTCM?)
22. Commission on Jewish Assets in Sweden at the Time of the Second World War: list of
unclaimed bank accounts at Swedish banks. Stockholm, Sweden: Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
May, 1997.
Note: The interim report deals with the handling by the Central Bank of Sweden (Riksbank)
of Nazi gold during WWII.
Filed in Library at S16. (Didn't the Swedish CB do a gold sale in 97?)
37. Finding aid: gold arrangments and transaction files. Ottawa: Bank of Canada. Gold
History Project, December 1997. 66 pp.
Note: This finding aid was created as a guide for researchers to Bank of Canada records
relating to gold transactions between March 11, 1935 and December 31, 1956. It is an
enlarged version of an inventory of gold transactions that was compiled to assist Professor
Duncan McDowell, who was commissioned by the Bank in 1997 to carry out an independent
investigation of the Bank's handling of foreign gold during WWII.
(Canadian gold sale - where did the gold come from that was sold into the soft market?)
76. Report to the Treasurer of New York State and the Comptroller of New York City. n.p.:
Credit Suisse Group, Swiss Bank Corporation and Union Bank of Switzerland, December 1,
1997.
Note: A progress report on the progress made by Swiss banks in their ongoing program to
return Holocaust-era dormant assets to their rightful owners submitted to the State Treasurer
and the City Comptroller from Switzerland's three largest banks in advance of the Public
Finance Officers Conference in New York City on December 8th. The group's goals are to
achieve: 1)an open and honest search for the truth through an independent, internationally
verified audit of Swiss banks, conducted under the Volcker Committee, for any remaining
WWII-era dormant assets; 2) a simple claims process using relaxed standards of proof to
resolve valid claims; 3) a means to address, on a humanitarian basis, the needs of Holcaust
survivors and heirs. (again with the LTCM bailout boyz)
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