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4 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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@stephengrimmer35 4 ай бұрын

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

@KLFaber 4 ай бұрын

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

@RalphieMuskinyaar 4 ай бұрын

She said the smaller ones were the heavy ones

@ianking-jv4hg 3 ай бұрын

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

@ohasis8331 3 ай бұрын

@@KLFaber 400 ounces Troy.

@Pabloandresariza 2 ай бұрын

@@KLFaber27.43 lbs = 400 Troy ounces

@jimmydolphin9653 4 ай бұрын

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

@mishecketengani7418 4 ай бұрын

Switzerland with every complicit financial deal in the world 🙌😂

@benediktmorak4409 4 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.

@John-ol4eo 2 ай бұрын

G.W.B! War criminal extraordinaire.

@tressietes04 4 ай бұрын

Bankers. Kind of ironic ehhhh.

@mini_mozzer 4 ай бұрын

lmao

@OliverClothesofff 4 ай бұрын

Oy vey

@mini_mozzer 4 ай бұрын

@@OliverClothesofff 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@mini_mozzer 4 ай бұрын

@seanprice7645 based pfp

@howwwwwyyyyy 4 ай бұрын

Took the words right out of my mouth

@5_meter_spread 4 ай бұрын

Germany stole the gold, then the allies stole the gold

@andybrown6981 4 ай бұрын

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

@busterbiloxi3833 3 ай бұрын

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

@bartle6168 3 ай 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 3 ай бұрын

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

@erok268 2 ай бұрын

Then the corporations stole the gold. Then I stole a little baby piece too

@DarcyS369 4 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 4 ай бұрын

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

@charliepenguingaming 4 ай бұрын

U talking about MEFO?

@KramerMC5 4 ай бұрын

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

@brian3174 4 ай бұрын

@@KramerMC5 best real history. Of 20th century

@KramerMC5 4 ай бұрын

Agreed@@brian3174

@jh2309 4 ай бұрын

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

@deathlarsen7502 4 ай бұрын

good call

@anthonymathews3872 2 ай бұрын

They would be replaced within a year.

@markfryer9880 4 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 4 ай бұрын

Na he was well past retirement age by WW2.

@sondrajean955 4 ай бұрын

Goering was the art plunderer.

@davepowell7168 4 ай бұрын

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

@user-ro2bh2xh6o 4 ай бұрын

All of Europe was

@benediktmorak4409 4 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 4 ай бұрын

He also committed awful crimes against fashion😂

@ane-louisestampe7939 4 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 😭

@dmsovela2409 Ай бұрын

Hahaa they thought they wont be taken🤣🤣

@ImGoingSupersonic 4 ай бұрын

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

@1futur334 4 ай бұрын

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

@sundance7328 4 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 3 ай бұрын

You know it all, Sherlock.

@jackbrady9738 Ай бұрын

North Korea has such GOOD American forgeries they’re literally more perfect than American notes: the lamp post is perfectly drawn in, the original has less detail 😂😂

@jkoonce4244 2 күн бұрын

Why watch it then plate boy ? Wouldn't it make sense that the woman made the story up that they couldn't drive their truck to dump the stuff in the lake but they could drive the horse and buggy Sofa king we todd did

@lorenzbroll101 4 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.

@krsmedley 4 ай бұрын

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

@joshuaseib7514 4 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 4 ай бұрын

Is,is!

@howwwwwyyyyy 4 ай бұрын

Is,Is

@user-rp6pi5iv5x 4 ай бұрын

who would have thought it

@russcooke5671 3 ай бұрын

They still are.

@user-sp4gy7ko5l 3 ай бұрын

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

@NecrosedNexus 2 ай бұрын

Thats $36 Billion in 1938 dollars…. Thats equivalent to $800 Billion today… quoting interest rates but doesn’t understand inflation

@realitycheckreally8412 4 ай бұрын

The printing press...

@flfar3445 4 ай бұрын

I want that bank note so bad in my collection 😢

@Kiltoonie 4 ай бұрын

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

@robertdelacruz2951 4 ай бұрын

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

@petarmartic4526 4 ай бұрын

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

@hughtierney9109 4 ай бұрын

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

@ronalddesiderio7625 4 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 4 ай бұрын

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

@ronalddesiderio7625 4 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 4 ай бұрын

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

@DianInHerOrb 4 ай бұрын

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

@MrT01582 4 ай бұрын

They'd be ashamed

@sarbaazchabahar 4 ай бұрын

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

@bartle6168 3 ай бұрын

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

@ronalddesiderio7625 4 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🙄

@mikeshoemaker1909 4 ай бұрын

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

@variable7833 4 ай бұрын

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

@rhondaadams 4 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?!

@leaderofthepack39 4 ай бұрын

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

@alexandermelbaus2351 4 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 4 ай бұрын

@seanprice7645 what fairytale?

@Theiliteritesbian 4 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.

@alexandermelbaus2351 4 ай бұрын

@@Theiliteritesbian Anyone that has a proper understanding of the Reich economy is unable to sit through this entire video. The German economy was built without gold or any substantial foreign exchange reserves; The national economy was heavily self sufficient and issued currency that was backed by German production and German labour. The interest of capital on houses and other essential economic arrangements that were critical to life was not acceptable.

@ShaneMartin-eb7ng 4 ай бұрын

I love these ww2 stories

@CornPop2 4 ай бұрын

no you don't

@castleanthrax1833 4 ай бұрын

@@CornPop2👈This guy lies.

@ShaneMartin-eb7ng 4 ай бұрын

@@CornPop2 yeah I do

@bronsonschnitzel7493 4 ай бұрын

I love these ww2 stories

@Trooper_Pauls_I.Q.76 4 ай бұрын

Word!

@samuelpancake4084 4 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 4 ай бұрын

His war trophy ? Or just took it

@samuelpancake4084 4 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

@MrT01582 4 ай бұрын

Bidens com8ng for ALL your guns

@user-sp4gy7ko5l 3 ай бұрын

@@chevyboy.0448 Totally fine in WW2.

@a.nelprober-rl5cf 4 ай бұрын

So many flat earthers in these comments…guaranteed.

@user-rp6pi5iv5x 4 ай бұрын

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

@ronalddesiderio7625 4 ай бұрын

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

@donholmes3267 4 ай бұрын

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

@bigbossimmotal 4 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 4 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.

@edwardh1591 4 ай бұрын

Neat documentary!😊

@Britton_Thompson 3 ай бұрын

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

@dannywlm63 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful just how much was taken

@premierhoner614 4 ай бұрын

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

@gordondafoe3516 4 ай бұрын

The Nazi's stole nothing. It's called "the spoils of war". Conquering nations still carry on this practice today. That's the way it has been throughout human history. Just accept it.

@AltCtrlSpud 4 ай бұрын

Anyone else missing Terry Davis a little extra today?

@MarkFarrington-hb2ne 4 ай бұрын

Gold is in Switzerland

@elyjane8316 4 ай бұрын

My uncle Willie got a share.

@JoaoSoares-rs6ec 4 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,

@JR-sq2of 2 ай бұрын

34:31. That's the best Himmler looking actor I've seen.

@debbiestyer453 4 ай бұрын

Thank you ..very interesting story.

@castleanthrax1833 4 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 4 ай бұрын

Where did AH get the cash?

@castleanthrax1833 4 ай бұрын

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

@castleanthrax1833 4 ай бұрын

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

@castleanthrax1833 4 ай бұрын

He stole it.

@me5atworld 4 ай бұрын

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

@Markoshirzadapool 2 ай бұрын

This documentary was gold ! Well almost !

@markmathisen3908 4 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. 🤨🤔

@jeffdumpster1470 4 ай бұрын

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

@Theiliteritesbian 4 ай бұрын

This was a good one!

@DJPhantomRage 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like the USA print, print, print.

@4587remi 3 ай бұрын

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

@strikerorwell9232 3 ай бұрын

Ukraine and Israel needs the money!

@MrWhiskers65 4 ай бұрын

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

@user-luminlush999 4 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.

@EllieMaes-Grandad 4 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.

@veronicamoody3981 2 ай бұрын

The allies' shady dealings doesn't excuse the Swiss for keeping the money plundered from Jewish people and most likely others who were help prisoner in work and death camps.

@MarkFarrington-hb2ne 4 ай бұрын

Switzerland, where else

@richardstever3242 4 ай бұрын

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

@alsosprachzarathustra5505 3 ай 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.

@charleshotchkiss1813 4 ай бұрын

Entertaining.

@harryharrison4876 4 ай бұрын

Thought it would have been affiliate marketing!

@FrankieJizking-js3yv 21 күн бұрын

At 4:35, I asked myself "how is she alive to tell what happened". Must watch to find out.

@bluecollarnobody4217 4 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.

@zillsburyy1 4 ай бұрын

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

@Tiger_III 4 ай бұрын

underrated comment

@jeffdumpster1470 4 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.

@ghanashyamkaale7389 9 күн бұрын

Every war is banker's war

@mnp3713 2 ай бұрын

42:57 same with the Zim currency more valuable than its face value as collector item

@user-kw5qv6zl5e 4 ай бұрын

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

@virgilpalmer2427 4 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.

@yammybolo222 2 ай бұрын

Anyone who knew about the dumping of the gold there would have gone back for it eventually…you would have to assume everyone who knew about it died (and told nobody else in their family about its location) for it still to be there. Pretty unlikely. Ppl don’t forget where gold is dumped or buried, even under threat of death. The yellow metal has that effect on ppl…is a reason they call it “gold fever”

@philipmcdonagh1094 4 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).

@bernardkroeger4045 4 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.😉

@stevek343 4 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 🤔

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 4 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

@Tariqslo 2 ай бұрын

Every nation, every army in history needs gold and other valuable and lots of it.

@prestonhanson501 4 ай бұрын

And the GI buried lots of that gold for themselves

@sbautomotiveshenanigans3974 4 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

@Detroitwithlove 4 ай бұрын

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

@keetahbrough 4 ай бұрын

same way america and canada does. taxes and employment.

@evans32 2 ай бұрын

"the equivalent of over $36billion today" considering that just the US spends $900billion on military today that's crazy.

@georgejernigan3312 4 ай бұрын

Bake sales?lol

@AndreiBogorodski 4 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

@alamore5084 4 ай бұрын

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

@norwago 2 ай бұрын

Henry Ford motors, hugoboss, rotchilde and and the USA 👌 No Henry Ford, no engines and No Sentralbank - No founds .

@ohasis8331 3 ай бұрын

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

@busterbiloxi3833 3 ай бұрын

The heavy boxes contained valuable lead bars. Mystery solved!

@ObsessedCollector 4 ай бұрын

Goldfinger 🤣

@matthewarsenault463 4 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

@lorenzbroll101 4 ай бұрын

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

@Wustenfuchs109 4 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 4 ай бұрын

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

@TheBillaro 3 ай 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.

@philsteele7151 2 ай бұрын

If you need a horse and cart to get to it, how can Lake Toplitz, have been used for extensive military testing, and have tons of gold taken up to it.

@user-sp4gy7ko5l 3 ай бұрын

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

@earlshaner4441 4 ай бұрын

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

@Karl-nv5ok 4 ай бұрын

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

@williamlouie569 4 ай бұрын

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

@wapi8411 4 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.

@justinmanser7525 4 ай бұрын

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

@jorgecruzseda7551 4 ай бұрын

WHO YOU GONNA CALL???? GOLD BUSTERS!!!! 😊

@allanwhitehead6720 29 күн бұрын

At the end of world war 1 germany wasn't meant to pay 30 billion dollars in reparations. At the end of World War II their dad was effectively forgiven. Currently today Jimmy has only paid $1 billion in reparations. The country should consider itself lucky it is still standing

@jamesforresternewone4423 4 ай бұрын

Hi I'm Forrest from Australia

@tierneylogan5943 4 ай бұрын

Bank of International Settlements, mostly.

@obfuscateidentity2329 4 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?

@mattematsson554 4 ай бұрын

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

@brandonhallam51 4 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?