How Did Hitler Fund The Nazi War Machine? | Myth Hunters | War Stories
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Місяць томуFighting 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 Місяць тому
Switzerland with every complicit financial deal in the world 🙌😂
@benediktmorak4409 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
If you can lift those boxes, they aren't full of gold.
@KLFaber Місяць тому
Correct. A single standard gold bar weighs approximately 70lbs.
@RalphieMuskinyaar Місяць тому
She said the smaller ones were the heavy ones
@ianking-jv4hg 19 днів тому
Very rough rule of thumb Gold is more than 1/3rd heavier than lead by mass.
@ohasis8331 4 дні тому
@@KLFaber 400 ounces Troy.
@jh2309 Місяць тому
Has anyone thought that the heavy boxes might contain the plates used the make the counterfeit notes?
@deathlarsen7502 29 днів тому
good call
@jimmydolphin9653 Місяць тому
The way the narrator says gold just cracks me up. Gooollld!
@5_meter_spread Місяць тому
Germany stole the gold, then the allies stole the gold
@andybrown6981 Місяць тому
Wouldn't even start to pay for reparations or loss of lives
@busterbiloxi3833 16 днів тому
Then it was sold to Pawn Stars and they had to frame it. And that costs money!
@bartle6168 15 днів тому
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 2 дні тому
Us English stole everyone’s gold. Which I can only apologise for
@DarcyS369 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
Do you mean the Mefo bills they used to pay the rearmament factories?
@Joseph-sj9uf Місяць тому
U talking about MEFO?
@seanprice7645 Місяць тому
this isn't how it was "funded" though. this was just a domestic wartime monetary policy. it was funded from abroad..
@KramerMC5 Місяць тому
'Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick' is a documentary that may enlighten you.
@brian3174 Місяць тому
@@KramerMC5 best real history. Of 20th century
@sondrajean955 Місяць тому
Goering was the art plunderer.
@davepowell7168 Місяць тому
Provided urban play area in Plymouth ,(blitzkrieg bombsites)made him a likeable warcrimimal with the youth
@user-ro2bh2xh6o Місяць тому
All of Europe was
@benediktmorak4409 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
He also committed awful crimes against fashion😂
@sundance7328 Місяць тому
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 16 днів тому
You know it all, Sherlock.
@robertdelacruz2951 Місяць тому
Excellent story about treasure hunters and their faith in rumors. Well done.
@ImGoingSupersonic Місяць тому
This was extremely interesting. One of those stories related to WW2 by definition, but not the classic bomb and gun stories.
@krsmedley Місяць тому
What an amazing story! Best random click in a long time. Thank you!
@markfryer9880 Місяць тому
"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 Місяць тому
Na he was well past retirement age by WW2.
@realitycheckreally8412 Місяць тому
The printing press...
@tressietes04 Місяць тому
Bankers. Kind of ironic ehhhh.
@mini_mozzer Місяць тому
lmao
@OliverClothesofff Місяць тому
Oy vey
@seanprice7645 Місяць тому
the echo is reverberating. shut it down.
@mini_mozzer Місяць тому
@@OliverClothesofff 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@mini_mozzer Місяць тому
@@seanprice7645 based pfp
@joshuaseib7514 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
Is,is!
@howwwwwyyyyy Місяць тому
Is,Is
@user-rp6pi5iv5x Місяць тому
who would have thought it
@russcooke5671 5 днів тому
They still are.
@hughtierney9109 Місяць тому
there's only about ten minutes of genuine material in this strung out offering!
@lorenzbroll0101 Місяць тому
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.
@flfar3445 Місяць тому
I want that bank note so bad in my collection 😢
@Kiltoonie Місяць тому
I have some old German banknotes with a face value of Five Million Marks - all worthless paper, of course.
@variable7833 Місяць тому
I always have wondered this to myself. Thanks for the video to explain
@samuelpankonien4084 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
His war trophy ? Or just took it
@samuelpankonien4084 Місяць тому
@@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 Місяць тому
Bidens com8ng for ALL your guns
@user-sp4gy7ko5l 14 годин тому
@@chevyboy.0448 Totally fine in WW2.
@sarbaazchabahar Місяць тому
Why are there soooo many gambling ads on youtube??? Must be so greedy to put those ads on its platform. 👎👎👎
@bartle6168 15 днів тому
Go Premium, no adverts, it's well worth it.
@petarmartic4526 Місяць тому
Hold on.. no mention of Greek or Yugoslavian gold..
@AltCtrlSpud Місяць тому
Anyone else missing Terry Davis a little extra today?
@ronalddesiderio7625 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
What do you think they'd make of the world they fought for today?
@ronalddesiderio7625 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
the idea that Germany could havr taken over the world is so dumb
@DianInHerOrb Місяць тому
@@darrenlesueur4785 Sounds like you’re an expert on dumb
@jonathantrew8236 Місяць тому
They'd be ashamed
@donholmes3267 Місяць тому
This is a question i have wondered about for a long time !
@bigbossimmotal Місяць тому
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 28 днів тому
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 Місяць тому
Neat documentary!😊
@Theiliteritesbian Місяць тому
This was a good one!
@ronalddesiderio7625 Місяць тому
When you own the printing press where do you think AH got his coun 😂
@debbiestyer453 Місяць тому
Thank you ..very interesting story.
@dannywlm63 Місяць тому
Wonderful just how much was taken
@alsosprachzarathustra5505 8 днів тому
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.
@richardstever3242 Місяць тому
48:50 - Goldfinger... ha, ha, ha! I love this story.
@premierhoner614 Місяць тому
Looking at that little town, I can't help thinking of the song "Heaven is a place on earth" 😂😂. So, so beautiful ❤❤
@douglaswilkinson5700 Місяць тому
My great grandfather was a 49er. And in 1849 is was tough traveling to California from back East.
@me5atworld Місяць тому
Think the gold would be shared with the soldiers who found it?. The smart ones would just bail out and buy freedom
@rhondaadams Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
stop believing fairy tales.
@leaderofthepack39 Місяць тому
Because they were under extreme time pressure. The allies armies were quickly closing in
@alexandermelbaus2351 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
@@seanprice7645 what fairytale?
@Theiliteritesbian Місяць тому
@@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.
@charleshotchkiss1813 Місяць тому
Entertaining.
@ronalddesiderio7625 Місяць тому
They been look 👀 ing for that Gold in the lake since 45. If anyone found anything you think 🤔 there going to broadcast it🙄
@ane-louisestampe7939 28 днів тому
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 😭
@ohasis8331 4 дні тому
"When they brought the box to the surface, no one was sure what was inside" - duhhh, open it.
@busterbiloxi3833 16 днів тому
The heavy boxes contained valuable lead bars. Mystery solved!
@JoaoSoares-rs6ec Місяць тому
the truth is there are still vast quantities of it missing. we need to remember that the values here are from the time,
@MarkFarrington-hb2ne Місяць тому
Gold is in Switzerland
@elyjane8316 Місяць тому
My uncle Willie got a share.
@user-qg2og7ds4f 2 дні тому
harry dexter white weiss ...silvermaster spy ring...heinzz kissinger.. trotskyites from the frankfurt school in 1000 dollar armani suits goodluck usa.
@markmathisen3908 Місяць тому
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. 🤨🤔
@zillsburyy1 Місяць тому
47:19 gold at last!!!!!! or was it
@Tiger_III Місяць тому
underrated comment
@jeffdumpster1470 Місяць тому
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.
@harryharrison4876 Місяць тому
Thought it would have been affiliate marketing!
@MarkFarrington-hb2ne Місяць тому
Switzerland, where else
@user-qg2og7ds4f 2 дні тому
city of london where else..canary wharf
@valcomllc7840 Місяць тому
How many times are they going to regurgitate this story?
@DJPhantomRage Місяць тому
Sounds like the USA print, print, print.
@a.nelprober-rl5cf Місяць тому
So many flat earthers in these comments…guaranteed.
@user-rp6pi5iv5x Місяць тому
Yip. The surface of water is always level. The wet ball is covered 70% by water??? Must be flat
@user-kw5qv6zl5e Місяць тому
You can correctly label this program...The Origins of modern day economics....
@TheBillaro 9 днів тому
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.
@jeffdumpster1470 Місяць тому
@10:34 hold a box that size full of gold 🤣I call BS
@user-sp4gy7ko5l 14 годин тому
They had re-breathers during WW2. If it were treasure it could be long gone.
@jamesforresternewone4423 Місяць тому
Hi I'm Forrest from Australia
@alamore5084 Місяць тому
Goering was also guilty of the most awful crimes against fashion.
@prestonhanson501 Місяць тому
And the GI buried lots of that gold for themselves
@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Місяць тому
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
@castleanthrax1833 Місяць тому
I don't need to watch this video to know how AH funded his 3rd Reich... but I'll watch it anyway.
@mattematsson554 21 день тому
Where did AH get the cash?
@castleanthrax1833 21 день тому
@mattematsson554 He stole the gold reserves from every country he invaded and looted anything else of value.
@castleanthrax1833 21 день тому
@@mattematsson554 He stole the gold reserves of the countries he invaded and looted anything else of value.
@castleanthrax1833 21 день тому
He stole it.
@MrWhiskers65 Місяць тому
Let me tell you from experience that paper is extremely heavy! Far heavier than one would ever expect.
@user-dd2lp7xg7j 27 днів тому
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.
@ObsessedCollector Місяць тому
Goldfinger 🤣
@sbautomotiveshenanigans3974 Місяць тому
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
@EllieMaes-Grandad Місяць тому
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.
@stevek343 Місяць тому
One hundred meters deep, that's over 300 feet deep water. A scuba diver can't go beyond 130 feet, something is fishy here 🤔
@Detroitwithlove Місяць тому
There is no way they let her live after asking so many questions they would of killed her
@mattematsson554 21 день тому
Prescott Bush, IG Farben and Switzerland, I've heard.
@philipmcdonagh1094 Місяць тому
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).
@unnamedchannel1237 24 дні тому
Loud music and sound effects 🙄
@wolfmauler Місяць тому
Royalties from a bestseller! 😉✋🏻
@obfuscateidentity2329 25 днів тому
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?
@georgejernigan3312 Місяць тому
Bake sales?lol
@ShaneMartin-eb7ng Місяць тому
I love these ww2 stories
@CornPop2 Місяць тому
no you don't
@castleanthrax1833 Місяць тому
@@CornPop2👈This guy lies.
@ShaneMartin-eb7ng Місяць тому
@@CornPop2 yeah I do
@bronsonschnitzel7493 Місяць тому
I love these ww2 stories
@christianmichael5519 Місяць тому
Word!
@OublietteTight Місяць тому
Art measured by the ton? Brain warp 😮
@1futur334 Місяць тому
Rothschild funds Harriman who funds Thyssen. Harriman also funds USSR & US
@castleofall867 4 дні тому
Also, Rothschild got his "Start" forging rare coins.
@virgilpalmer2427 29 днів тому
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.
@tierneylogan5943 Місяць тому
Bank of International Settlements, mostly.
@AndreiBogorodski Місяць тому
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
@justinmanser7525 29 днів тому
32:00 Perfectly forged bank notes. Erm, don't ypu mean notes printed by a central bank?
@mikeshoemaker1909 Місяць тому
If it was gold she would be in that lake floating dead
@callumnineninenine6886 8 днів тому
anyone fancy taking a trip to Austria?
@user-dd2lp7xg7j 27 днів тому
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.
@anagramconfirmed1717 4 дні тому
Too much music.
@matthewarsenault463 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
Yes essentially it is worthless like the plundered works of art.
@Wustenfuchs109 Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
The currency would help with espionage operations in UK and it's allied countries
@ianking-jv4hg 19 днів тому
How ? With Lies ! meanwhile what was Neutral Switzerland doing ?
@WizardMgtow Місяць тому
I wonder how many documentaries have been made about this man, this world has an unhealthy obsession with this man.
@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus Місяць тому
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 Місяць тому
It’s not an obsession, just morbid curiosity
@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus Місяць тому
@@Gorre022 because deep down they know its all lies.
@Michelles222 Місяць тому
Never, ever forget what he did. The evil atrocities he did is unbelievably sick! We can not let it happen again!
@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus Місяць тому
@@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.
@earlshaner4441 Місяць тому
I would love to get some coins from 1934 Germany for my collection
@Karl-nv5ok 28 днів тому
The coins started to have Swastika in 1935.Those from 1934 don't.In case you wonder.
@user-bp3po8uj4o Місяць тому
So was the gold returned to the various countries
@brandonhallam51 Місяць тому
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?
@Ometecuhtli Місяць тому
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.
@energi_inc.3022 Місяць тому
Watching rhis doc a@ 16 min the person holdning that gold bar was a Russian women thank you
@samchs222 Місяць тому
Maybe i could go treasure hunting there
@davidnord1979 Місяць тому
HOW ???????!BY THE POPE OF ROME
@douglaswilkinson5700 Місяць тому
There is no "Pope of Rome."
@Friendsly Місяць тому
Is Fritz Thyssen not the logical subject of video titled like this?
@roydavis5613 Місяць тому
Hitlers hair parting is on the wrong side in thumbnail !!!!
@csomanathchakrapani7521 27 днів тому
Allies were no better.All their big shots became rich,for example Supreme command of the Allied forces.An altercation between Allied Army officers reslted in the death of a General(not sure if it was Patton).
@user-mi6zq6jh8c 16 днів тому
maybe someone came back before 1958 and took the gold.
@MrRikki52b Місяць тому
I wonder how many GI's helped themselves to some of the loot🤫
@michaelhband Місяць тому
👍👍👍
@andybrown6981 Місяць тому
Where did the Nazis get the gold? From The Tooth Fairy
@jimclip2012 Місяць тому
How did faking the gold bars hurt the local policeman? Was it because the news would attract obnoxious treasure hunters who the cop would have to chase off or just deal with?
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