How Did Hitler Fund The Nazi War Machine? | Myth Hunters

How Did Hitler Fund The Nazi War Machine? | Myth Hunters | War Stories

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Ай бұрын

Fighting a world war doesn't come cheap, however Nazi Germany managed to pull this off whilst their country's economy was in pieces. How exactly then did Hitler find the money to wage war on this kind of scale?
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@mishecketengani7418 Ай бұрын

Switzerland with every complicit financial deal in the world 🙌😂

@benediktmorak4409 Ай бұрын

For them the old Roman proverb still holds good, and always will be - Pecunia non olet -, cash does not smell. WIKI has the whole story who said it first.

@stephengrimmer35 Ай бұрын

If you can lift those boxes, they aren't full of gold.

@KLFaber Ай бұрын

Correct. A single standard gold bar weighs approximately 70lbs.

@RalphieMuskinyaar Ай бұрын

She said the smaller ones were the heavy ones

@ianking-jv4hg 28 күн бұрын

Very rough rule of thumb Gold is more than 1/3rd heavier than lead by mass.

@ohasis8331 13 күн бұрын

@@KLFaber 400 ounces Troy.

@jimmydolphin9653 Ай бұрын

The way the narrator says gold just cracks me up. Gooollld!

@jh2309 Ай бұрын

Has anyone thought that the heavy boxes might contain the plates used the make the counterfeit notes?

@deathlarsen7502 Ай бұрын

good call

@DarcyS369 Ай бұрын

They started a company that was backed by all the biggest companies in Germany and they had that company print company bank notes and paid industry with them as loans. Very smart.

@paigetomkinson1137 Ай бұрын

Do you mean the Mefo bills they used to pay the rearmament factories?

@Joseph-sj9uf Ай бұрын

U talking about MEFO?

@seanprice7645 Ай бұрын

this isn't how it was "funded" though. this was just a domestic wartime monetary policy. it was funded from abroad..

@KramerMC5 Ай бұрын

'Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick' is a documentary that may enlighten you.

@brian3174 Ай бұрын

@@KramerMC5 best real history. Of 20th century

@5_meter_spread Ай бұрын

Germany stole the gold, then the allies stole the gold

@andybrown6981 Ай бұрын

Wouldn't even start to pay for reparations or loss of lives

@busterbiloxi3833 25 күн бұрын

Then it was sold to Pawn Stars and they had to frame it. And that costs money!

@bartle6168 24 күн бұрын

And the USA gained. In fact the USA received a ship hold of gold before France fell and the US didn't just protect it, they kept it all. It's why economies are no longer based on gold.

@starbug12121 11 күн бұрын

Us English stole everyone’s gold. Which I can only apologise for

@krsmedley Ай бұрын

What an amazing story! Best random click in a long time. Thank you!

@tressietes04 Ай бұрын

Bankers. Kind of ironic ehhhh.

@mini_mozzer Ай бұрын

lmao

@OliverClothesofff Ай бұрын

Oy vey

@seanprice7645 Ай бұрын

the echo is reverberating. shut it down.

@mini_mozzer Ай бұрын

@@OliverClothesofff 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@mini_mozzer Ай бұрын

@@seanprice7645 based pfp

@robertdelacruz2951 Ай бұрын

Excellent story about treasure hunters and their faith in rumors. Well done.

@sundance7328 Ай бұрын

This docu failed to live up to my expectations in so many ways. The narrator is way over the top given the actual content. Heavy boxes are gonna be the printing plates for the forgeries

@busterbiloxi3833 25 күн бұрын

You know it all, Sherlock.

@ImGoingSupersonic Ай бұрын

This was extremely interesting. One of those stories related to WW2 by definition, but not the classic bomb and gun stories.

@sondrajean955 Ай бұрын

Goering was the art plunderer.

@davepowell7168 Ай бұрын

Provided urban play area in Plymouth ,(blitzkrieg bombsites)made him a likeable warcrimimal with the youth

@user-ro2bh2xh6o Ай бұрын

All of Europe was

@benediktmorak4409 Ай бұрын

but he was COLLECTING.Not selling. And the few millions he made with what he sold, did not go into state coffers. But into his private bank account. To pay for his opulent lifestyle. To help finance Hitlers war machine? There the big companies, German and international, that is also American, did their part.

@alamore5084 Ай бұрын

He also committed awful crimes against fashion😂

@markfryer9880 Ай бұрын

"We'll all be rich! As rich as Nazis!" C. Montgomery Burns. This might help to explain how Mr Burns got so wealthy with a fabulous head start from his Army Days during WWII!

@philipmcdonagh1094 Ай бұрын

Na he was well past retirement age by WW2.

@variable7833 Ай бұрын

I always have wondered this to myself. Thanks for the video to explain

@edwardh1591 Ай бұрын

Neat documentary!😊

@lorenzbroll0101 Ай бұрын

Doubt it myself. Just don’t think anyone would panic tip gold into a lake without careful marking of location and means to reclaim the loot. Nice wishful thinking, though.

@hughtierney9109 Ай бұрын

there's only about ten minutes of genuine material in this strung out offering!

@realitycheckreally8412 Ай бұрын

The printing press...

@Theiliteritesbian Ай бұрын

This was a good one!

@donholmes3267 Ай бұрын

This is a question i have wondered about for a long time !

@bigbossimmotal Ай бұрын

Google Mefo bills, a simple article will tell you more than this entire video. The premise that gold stolen from countries that were invaded to build weapons to invade countries is just idiotic. The German rearmament happened (and was financed) BEFORE they started invading everybody. The same is true of Gold stolen from the Jews, that didn't happen until they started rounding up the Jews. And all this talk about the gold hidden at the END of the war wasn't used for rearmament either!

@Hereford1642 Ай бұрын

Me too (the financing of Germany before and during the war). But this is not the answer. The stolen 36 billion dollars of Gold would not cover the budget of a modern cut down army like the UK for a year, let alone 5. One day perhaps I will find something that attempts to answer the questions seriously.

@debbiestyer453 Ай бұрын

Thank you ..very interesting story.

@flfar3445 Ай бұрын

I want that bank note so bad in my collection 😢

@Kiltoonie Ай бұрын

I have some old German banknotes with a face value of Five Million Marks - all worthless paper, of course.

@ronalddesiderio7625 Ай бұрын

They shd have melted the gold bars down and given every WWII and the Families of fallen vets a Gold Medal 🥇 for saving the world 🌍

@howwwwwyyyyy Ай бұрын

What do you think they'd make of the world they fought for today?

@ronalddesiderio7625 Ай бұрын

I can’t speak for other people. However in my own humble opinion I believe they would wonder why they fought that war. And that there nothing short of saving the world 🌎 is not understood by the present generation. Just the disrespect alone. Thats the best I can respond without being a crazy no holds barred Italian 😂

@darrenlesueur4785 Ай бұрын

the idea that Germany could havr taken over the world is so dumb

@DianInHerOrb Ай бұрын

@@darrenlesueur4785 Sounds like you’re an expert on dumb

@jonathantrew8236 Ай бұрын

They'd be ashamed

@joshuaseib7514 Ай бұрын

My deal with the whole lake thing is simply why? It seems so impractical. Especially at that time, how did they ever expect to recover it? Also Many of the major companies gave him what amounted to hundreds of millions to do with as he pleased partially because they were so enthralled with him and probably more so bc he made it worth their while in other ways. I’m not saying that funded the war or anything it’s just crazy they gave him basically an unlimited credit line. So Switzerland was basically the worlds biggest money launderer?

@howwwwwyyyyy Ай бұрын

Is,is!

@howwwwwyyyyy Ай бұрын

Is,Is

@user-rp6pi5iv5x Ай бұрын

who would have thought it

@russcooke5671 15 күн бұрын

They still are.

@dannywlm63 Ай бұрын

Wonderful just how much was taken

@samuelpankonien4084 Ай бұрын

If I was in ww2 I would have slipped a gold bar in my pocket 😂 but one of my grandfathers pocketed a German gun that has now been passed to me . I'll never sell it and it will be passed to my kids

@chevyboy.0448 Ай бұрын

His war trophy ? Or just took it

@samuelpankonien4084 Ай бұрын

@@chevyboy.0448 from his stories after a battle they would move through where the dead was and it was laying next to someone and he grabbed it

@jonathantrew8236 Ай бұрын

Bidens com8ng for ALL your guns

@user-sp4gy7ko5l 9 күн бұрын

@@chevyboy.0448 Totally fine in WW2.

@charleshotchkiss1813 Ай бұрын

Entertaining.

@ronalddesiderio7625 Ай бұрын

When you own the printing press where do you think AH got his coun 😂

@premierhoner614 Ай бұрын

Looking at that little town, I can't help thinking of the song "Heaven is a place on earth" 😂😂. So, so beautiful ❤❤

@rhondaadams Ай бұрын

I’m sorry, what now? Did he just say that the people who figured out how to burn millions of people couldn’t figure out how to burn millions of pound notes? He literally said “burning millions of pounds wasn’t easy” about the NAZIS!!!! Who tf is writing this script?!

@seanprice7645 Ай бұрын

stop believing fairy tales.

@leaderofthepack39 Ай бұрын

Because they were under extreme time pressure. The allies armies were quickly closing in

@alexandermelbaus2351 Ай бұрын

The video is presenting a stark contrast to reality; Germany built their economy on work and production. Gold had nothing to do with it.

@michaeldunham3385 Ай бұрын

@@seanprice7645 what fairytale?

@Theiliteritesbian Ай бұрын

@@alexandermelbaus2351 wow, you somehow missed the entire point of this video. Its an hour long, and you couldn't figure it out?! Its about their economy from 1942-1945. The narrator goes over the whole damn story. I can't imagine how frustrating normal life must get for you.

@douglaswilkinson5700 Ай бұрын

My great grandfather was a 49er. And in 1849 is was tough traveling to California from back East.

@a.nelprober-rl5cf Ай бұрын

So many flat earthers in these comments…guaranteed.

@user-rp6pi5iv5x Ай бұрын

Yip. The surface of water is always level. The wet ball is covered 70% by water??? Must be flat

@ShaneMartin-eb7ng Ай бұрын

I love these ww2 stories

@CornPop2 Ай бұрын

no you don't

@castleanthrax1833 Ай бұрын

@@CornPop2👈This guy lies.

@ShaneMartin-eb7ng Ай бұрын

@@CornPop2 yeah I do

@bronsonschnitzel7493 Ай бұрын

I love these ww2 stories

@christianmichael5519 Ай бұрын

Word!

@petarmartic4526 Ай бұрын

Hold on.. no mention of Greek or Yugoslavian gold..

@richardstever3242 Ай бұрын

48:50 - Goldfinger... ha, ha, ha! I love this story.

@4587remi 9 күн бұрын

$36 billion? Doesn't sound like much for something on that scale.

@strikerorwell9232 5 күн бұрын

Ukraine and Israel needs the money!

@sarbaazchabahar Ай бұрын

Why are there soooo many gambling ads on youtube??? Must be so greedy to put those ads on its platform. 👎👎👎

@bartle6168 24 күн бұрын

Go Premium, no adverts, it's well worth it.

@Britton_Thompson 6 күн бұрын

How? Based on the lack of rations, ammunition , and oil- *pretty damn poorly!* That's how!

@AltCtrlSpud Ай бұрын

Anyone else missing Terry Davis a little extra today?

@markmathisen3908 Ай бұрын

Wouldn't the heaviest boxes most likely have contained the heavy printing plates for the forgeries? They even state earlier that many plates were created and engraved for them to produce all the forged notes. 🤨🤔

@me5atworld Ай бұрын

Think the gold would be shared with the soldiers who found it?. The smart ones would just bail out and buy freedom

@WizardMgtow Ай бұрын

I wonder how many documentaries have been made about this man, this world has an unhealthy obsession with this man.

@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus Ай бұрын

The world doesn't have an obsession, just the West, because it's ruled by a small group of people that need to keep up the lie to brainwash white people.

@Gorre022 Ай бұрын

It’s not an obsession, just morbid curiosity

@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus Ай бұрын

@@Gorre022 because deep down they know its all lies.

@Michelles222 Ай бұрын

Never, ever forget what he did. The evil atrocities he did is unbelievably sick! We can not let it happen again!

@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus Ай бұрын

@@Michelles222 The winners of wars write the history books, so of course they will make up all sorts of atrocity stories, so you won't side with the Germans but the people who hated the Germans.

@ane-louisestampe7939 Ай бұрын

The Danish government started shipping the gold reserves to the US in December 1939, so when they occupied the country on April 9th, there was no gold to be found 😆 The Norweigians kindly helped the Danes with the transport. Alas, they didn't send their own with it 😭

@ronalddesiderio7625 Ай бұрын

They been look 👀 ing for that Gold in the lake since 45. If anyone found anything you think 🤔 there going to broadcast it🙄

@MarkFarrington-hb2ne Ай бұрын

Switzerland, where else

@user-qg2og7ds4f 11 күн бұрын

city of london where else..canary wharf

@jamesforresternewone4423 Ай бұрын

Hi I'm Forrest from Australia

@alsosprachzarathustra5505 18 күн бұрын

You have no idea how that worked: It wasn't gold, it was the MEFO bills. There is not enough gold to fund such a huge project.

@JoaoSoares-rs6ec Ай бұрын

the truth is there are still vast quantities of it missing. we need to remember that the values here are from the time,

@ohasis8331 13 күн бұрын

"When they brought the box to the surface, no one was sure what was inside" - duhhh, open it.

@harryharrison4876 Ай бұрын

Thought it would have been affiliate marketing!

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Ай бұрын

It is 2nd time I saw this wonderful historical coverage video about Nazism European plundered gold. 🙏(War stories) channel is always introduces historical valuable documents

@Pat_the_Ripper 16 сағат бұрын

If someone did find the gold they’d be crazy to tell anyone

@user-kw5qv6zl5e Ай бұрын

You can correctly label this program...The Origins of modern day economics....

@zillsburyy1 Ай бұрын

47:19 gold at last!!!!!! or was it

@Tiger_III Ай бұрын

underrated comment

@jeffdumpster1470 Ай бұрын

I've never held gold bars like that but I have held large bars of tungsten which is the same weight per volume. That was faked.

@wolfmauler Ай бұрын

Royalties from a bestseller! 😉✋🏻

@busterbiloxi3833 25 күн бұрын

The heavy boxes contained valuable lead bars. Mystery solved!

@MrWhiskers65 Ай бұрын

Let me tell you from experience that paper is extremely heavy! Far heavier than one would ever expect.

@user-dd2lp7xg7j Ай бұрын

This is very true. A client made me count out by hand 10 grand in twenties for her. Well, she couldn't even hold it, It was crazy heavy.

@user-sp4gy7ko5l 9 күн бұрын

They had re-breathers during WW2. If it were treasure it could be long gone.

@jeffdumpster1470 Ай бұрын

@10:34 hold a box that size full of gold 🤣I call BS

@alamore5084 Ай бұрын

Goering was also guilty of the most awful crimes against fashion.

@TheBillaro 18 күн бұрын

you can't convince me that it's easier to ship boxes of paper to a lake in the south, cart it buy horse and sink it than to burn them on a huge bonfire. no way.

@MarkFarrington-hb2ne Ай бұрын

Gold is in Switzerland

@elyjane8316 Ай бұрын

My uncle Willie got a share.

@user-qg2og7ds4f 11 күн бұрын

harry dexter white weiss ...silvermaster spy ring...heinzz kissinger.. trotskyites from the frankfurt school in 1000 dollar armani suits goodluck usa.

@Detroitwithlove Ай бұрын

There is no way they let her live after asking so many questions they would of killed her

@DJPhantomRage Ай бұрын

Sounds like the USA print, print, print.

@castleanthrax1833 Ай бұрын

I don't need to watch this video to know how AH funded his 3rd Reich... but I'll watch it anyway.

@mattematsson554 Ай бұрын

Where did AH get the cash?

@castleanthrax1833 Ай бұрын

@mattematsson554 He stole the gold reserves from every country he invaded and looted anything else of value.

@castleanthrax1833 Ай бұрын

@@mattematsson554 He stole the gold reserves of the countries he invaded and looted anything else of value.

@castleanthrax1833 Ай бұрын

He stole it.

@stevek343 Ай бұрын

One hundred meters deep, that's over 300 feet deep water. A scuba diver can't go beyond 130 feet, something is fishy here 🤔

@philipmcdonagh1094 Ай бұрын

Okay all this gold was plundered just before and during the war after he had re-militarized-rebuilt the country, question where did he get the money for that (direct foreign investment knowingly paid for his war machine).

@virgilpalmer2427 Ай бұрын

He took the local business men into his office under gun point and told him your companies are now ours ... It was easily done because they had monopolies... Which were outlawed in America after 1946.... But, over the years our government has turned back that bill and now companies are all monopolized.

@mattematsson554 Ай бұрын

Prescott Bush, IG Farben and Switzerland, I've heard.

@prestonhanson501 Ай бұрын

And the GI buried lots of that gold for themselves

@user-sp4gy7ko5l 9 күн бұрын

36 Billion is nothing. The US pays 3.22% INTEREST on 34.5 trillion yearly.

@mikeshoemaker1909 Ай бұрын

If it was gold she would be in that lake floating dead

@EllieMaes-Grandad Ай бұрын

Easy to condemn the Swiss for trading with the evil regime in Germany, but at the end of the war the Allies were not averse to some shady dealings themselves ~ Tom Bower's books, "Blind Eye to Murder" [post-war cover-up of widespread, generalised atrocities in Europe, done mostly by Nazis] and another, "Paperclip Conspiracy", examined selection of those guilty of war crimes but not prosecuted, being deemed useful to the USA.

@AndreiBogorodski Ай бұрын

Im 100% sure that pretty much all the gold in the lake was taken by the murikans as soon as they were there, they love gold, and they love oil

@OublietteTight Ай бұрын

Art measured by the ton? Brain warp 😮

@ObsessedCollector Ай бұрын

Goldfinger 🤣

@1futur334 Ай бұрын

Rothschild funds Harriman who funds Thyssen. Harriman also funds USSR & US

@castleofall867 13 күн бұрын

Also, Rothschild got his "Start" forging rare coins.

@justinmanser7525 Ай бұрын

32:00 Perfectly forged bank notes. Erm, don't ypu mean notes printed by a central bank?

@georgejernigan3312 Ай бұрын

Bake sales?lol

@sbautomotiveshenanigans3974 Ай бұрын

At the beginning you said there was no way down to the lake then we get told the nazis used it for testing weapons??? So there was a way to the lake

@callumnineninenine6886 17 күн бұрын

anyone fancy taking a trip to Austria?

@user-mi6zq6jh8c 25 күн бұрын

maybe someone came back before 1958 and took the gold.

@tierneylogan5943 Ай бұрын

Bank of International Settlements, mostly.

@bernardkroeger4045 Ай бұрын

These notes are not counterfeit, but rather copies. The Jews worked out the sequencing of the serial numbers used by the Royal mint, so these are a copy, duplicate of the original. So here are two(2) notes with the same serial number. Also fun fact. The 1948 war of independence waged by the fledgling state of Israel was in part finance with this 'copy' script. The English should not have betrayed Israel.😉

@brandonhallam51 Ай бұрын

Genius move... take double the necessary containers... dig and bury some with the gold inside close by where some dont see... then let everyone see you throwing cases into the lake... its obvious you just threw all the gold in the lake right?

@bluecollarnobody4217 Ай бұрын

OK let’s jam in the story obviously if the public knew that the gold was there, the Americans knew about it before anybody else. Do you honestly think the American government will leave all that gold bottom of the lake I think not.

@keetahbrough Ай бұрын

same way america and canada does. taxes and employment.

@unnamedchannel1237 Ай бұрын

Loud music and sound effects 🙄

@obfuscateidentity2329 Ай бұрын

Wait you said stolen gold was taken to Switzerland to use to buy foreign currency. When you say it was hidden ,buried in Germany and Austria. Which is it?

@samchs222 Ай бұрын

Maybe i could go treasure hunting there

@ianking-jv4hg 28 күн бұрын

How ? With Lies ! meanwhile what was Neutral Switzerland doing ?

@Ometecuhtli Ай бұрын

So remember, if you want to conquer the world (and fail at it) keep one match handy so you don't have to travel hundred of kilometers to hide the evidence.

@Friendsly Ай бұрын

Is Fritz Thyssen not the logical subject of video titled like this?

@williamlouie569 Ай бұрын

So how long took Germany to payback all debts after the war?

@wapi8411 Ай бұрын

they only ended up paying half of it at the end of the day, it was forgiven by the US in order to allow German industry to recover quicker.

@earlshaner4441 Ай бұрын

I would love to get some coins from 1934 Germany for my collection

@Karl-nv5ok Ай бұрын

The coins started to have Swastika in 1935.Those from 1934 don't.In case you wonder.

@user-bp3po8uj4o Ай бұрын

So was the gold returned to the various countries

@MrRikki52b Ай бұрын

I wonder how many GI's helped themselves to some of the loot🤫

@matthewarsenault463 Ай бұрын

Germany steals gold to get foreign currency I understand that part but with that foreign currency who were they buying supplies from they were cut off from the international market so what was the foreign currency actually used for for example the British had used gold to buy supplies from the US

@lorenzbroll0101 Ай бұрын

Yes essentially it is worthless like the plundered works of art.

@Wustenfuchs109 Ай бұрын

They were not cut from the start and definitely not from everyone. Up until mid-1941 they still had most of the world to trade with. And even after the inclusion of USA into the war, there were still countries that were neutral that Germany could trade with and use foreign currency as a more stable/secure option.

@amodpataskar5673 Ай бұрын

The currency would help with espionage operations in UK and it's allied countries

@user-dd2lp7xg7j Ай бұрын

I thought he declared a state of emergency that permitted him to invade the financial coffers and remove all obstacles of the Government Process where he could declare War without any objectives or boundaries and fleece of assets every country he invaded.