The work by U.S. Army Signal Corps to capture film records of these events is (1) priceless, and (2) probably unprecedented. How many times have towns, cities and even countries been sacked with no record kept? Abuses happened, but this is a singular example of accountability.
I seem to recall Eisenhauer may have had a lot to do with that, including the exhaustive photo and film evidence concerning the concentration camps. Something about, "If we don't record this for history, there will be those who will say it never happened.", or words to that effect. Eisenhauer also warned about the "military industrial complex" prior to becoming President. He was a wise man.
@@metaglypto Eisenhower? Yeah, that is what he said about the camps but I'm not sure what the policy was on other operations. It would be cool to research and write a script for a vidoe.
In ancient times the winning army got the spoils. The winning government would spread the wealth among its population. Now soldiers are prosecuted if found with the smallest piece of property. Even pictures.
@douglasmesina6922 , as late as the Napoleanic Wars, a primary motivator of French soldiers was the implied license to loot areas they captured. Apparently, senior leaders who did so came in for more scrutiny, at least based on popular, non-scholarly history resources I've found.
My Gramps also was the seargent of the first platoon to come upon a concentration camp for children. It messed his mind up. He had 6 children but would freak out if one got sick or injured.
@nathantoney.1501 Yeah, I could tell that about my grandfather, too. He never talked about any of his escapades, but I didn't realize it until after he died. My mom and aunts were going through his ribbons and medals, and my mom said this was for that, and I said, "He told ma about that." So I spent the next bit reciting tales. Like one where he laid in a cratered apple orchard, looking uphill into a church steeple sometime after Normandy. One helmet bobbed in front of the tall, slender bell tower opening, and he knocked the helmet off. He heard it banging down the stairwell. The next thing that crossed the opening wasn't so lucky. He followed Patton from the 3rd in Africa to the 7th. My grandfather and his spotter were one of Patton's two favorite teams, so they got special projects.
I was stationed in Germany in 1990-1996 and went to the camps, they had pictures of the shoes in train cars and in a massive warehouse that was the most horrible thing I have ever seen. That was before you went into the camp. After that I have no words to describe how evil these people were. Unfortunately we are seeing history repeating again and it’s very similar to what was done in 1935.
yes Israel now communing genocide . what did the Jews learn from the Nazis ? they learnt how to marginalise, discriminate and make ghettoes . pretty much learnt how to emulate Nazis
@@YuckFoutube-e1z Of Course They Do- Just To Show That They’re STILL INTERESTED, In Other Stashes Like This, Spread All Over The Planet, You Bet The Government Is Paying Close INTEREST, With Everyone Else’s Money, Do You Remember The U.S. President, That With The Flick Of His Fountain Pen ✒️, On One Particular Day, Literally; “ In The Blink Of An Eye” Made It ILLEGAL For ANY “American”, To POSSESS, PURCHASE, SELL, Or To Use In Any Form Of Barter, GOLD, In Any Form, Including “Raw” ( Ore ), Or Dust Or Nuggets ?? That’s A Pretty Broad Range & Detailed Description Of Exactly What They Meant , & POOF 💨!!! Everyone ( Umm Hmm ) Complied, Because The Ruse Was Sold ( Pun Intended) For Everyone’s Gold, To Put The Good Old U.S.Of A. , Back On The Gold Standard, Which Meant Our Currency, Was WORTH EVERY CENT, Was Backed By Gold, For Any & All Transactions, Domestic & Abroad, Private Or Commercial, But It Wasn’t Very Long Before The Bottom Fell Out Of That Barrel, Due To ( A BIG Part), Too Many Monkeys Were IN The Barrel, With YOUR Interests In Mind, ( Not A Schmidge Of YOUR INTERESTS), With Their Hands Outreaching For Even More $$ , And Ever Since, Clear Up To TODAY, The D.C. Monkeys Have Been Perfecting Their Creative Skills, For The Sole Purpose Of “ Separating YOU , From YOUR $$” , All While Printing More $$, At Unprecedented, Break-Neck Speeds, Just TO PAY That “ Interest “, You’re Speaking Of…. Watch, The Next Time, Some Happy Treasure Hunter Stumbles ( Yeah, After YEARS Of Researching & Verifying), Finds That Sunken Merchant Ship From The 15 -16 Hundreds , OVERLOADED With Ancient Gold Treasures, & Finds Out In A Flash, That It Belongs To So & So , From Such & Such , Here’s Your Cease & Desist Orders, This Entire Operation & ALL Assets Used To Locate It , Are Formally Seized,Confiscated, (Stolen) Right Out From Under You Physically, & Metaphorically, & Warned To Vacate, Disperse, (LEAVE) Or Else Be Arrested For Trespassing With Intent To Defraud,So&So Of Such & Such, Where , After ALL Of This Occurs, IS The Ever Elusive “ INTEREST “, Just An Example Of The Happenings, Past, Present & Future, Of Normal, Everyday “Americans” That Don’t Have A Special Govt. I.D., Or The Birth Certificate Of Their First Child, Readily Accessible, On Your Person, LOL 😝, Let’s Make A Deal, Type Stuff , Just Sayin , ANY TIME, ANY TIME…. You’re Dealing With A Huge Amount Of $$ , In ANY FORM, It’s Best To Just Take A Mental Picture Of It, All Or In Part, And Prepare Yourself To Be Part Of A Shit Show , That You May, Or MAY NOT, Ever Recover From, & Thank God, IF You Actually Do Get Another Chance To Be Upright & Breathing, You’ll Have Your Own Mental Picture On Which You Can Call Upon, IF You’re Silly Enough To TRY & Explain Your Experience To Anyone… Ohhh , Have The Times Changed… With Interest …😊👍🏻✌🏻🙏🏻🤐😳🤔⬛️◼️◾️▪️💨🫵🏻
Well well well! Every story I’ve ever heard on all this gold states never was found. But we the USA I think have all those wedding rings. That photo/video was chilling. It must have been hard to try and reunite said artwork etc.. to the rightful owners. Which I believe is still going on. Great video Doc
There were boatloads of gold and currency that the Germans moved to Argentina etc, buying businesses or starting them. Also, there were caches buried all over Germany. What is known is that not all have been found, such as the train of gold that some folks thought they had located a few years ago, and the chests of gold placed in the lake. What was found is still incredible.
"I have orders. This bank isn't to fall into the hands of the American army." "Sergeant, this bank's not gonna fall into the hands of the American army. It's gonna fall in our hands."
My grandparents' gold could be in there. Here's the craziest part: a large amount of the gold Germans stole is by now in the teeth fillings of other people, both living and dead, in electronics, jewelry, and other objects around the world. It could have come from the purchases and plunder of thousands of people and places across thousands of years. If gold could talk, the stories...
I posted a reply to a post that I feel needs to be echoed. Some may read the responses and feel the only people fighting were Americans. It took the USA some time to join the war, and the British, French, and others were already fighting a desperate conflict. When D Day came, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and many others were there. Relatives of mine (British) are buried in Cemeteries in distant places too. They fought and died side by side, this wasn’t just an American fight
gold teeth , watches and signets... obviously the teeth are number 1 , but watches and signets.. these carry so much emotion and are so .. personal objects ... it hurts...
Death camps with swimming pools, maternity wards, soccer fields, orchestra and even a brothel? Dig deeper my friend. Watch Europa the last battle or the greatest story never told. We were all lied to.
@stubbsmusic543 🤡🤡 The party literally leading us to war with Russia & allowing Nathan yahu to mess up, won't do this.. but trump who started no wars, will? Lmaoooo you so 'smart' u a bot
8000 bars of gold... Germans are like, could have sworn we counted 8765 the day before these dudes showed up. What are you getting at Hans, you saying a bunch of gold bars just grew legs or what?
Thus it is explained all of the novels, stories and movies I heard, read and saw when i was about 10 while growing up in the sixties. Glad to hear there was some truth in there.
My father found some of it at Hughes Aircraft company, some hoe it ended up in plant 42 near Tucson Arizona, The art work and gold were inside a missile bunker. I believe they returned it to Europe in the 1990's. He worked there for like 32 years, after his stroke he mentioned it. Later It was found.
This makes me wonder what happened to the "Amber room?" My thought are most likely it was destroyed while being moved...or its sunk somewhere either on a submarine or like just dumped in a lake to hide it. Who knows but its been 75 years and it never turned up.
The Palace has a reconstruction of the Amber Room, but it would have been nice to have been able to see the original. The room isn't all that big by the way.
And even in 2024, these artworks are being located with rightful ownership. Personal jewelry being connected to where stolen from. It’s taking a long process
So what happened to the gold and supposedly the spoils of the camps? Where did it end up? In some fund for the avera j evprrsons on all sides who found themselves destitute or disabled by the War? Or some vaults in London or in darling New York.
I often wonder what happened to the treasures plundered by the Nazis. How much was accounted for? How much helped Germany's pist war recovery? How much was kept by German people or looted by the victors?
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Gold is the only substance that is not destroyed by mass crematoriums. How much of that gold came from prisoners’ teeth? Unfortunately, “Germany was the dress rehearsal for the United States.” (11/5/24) Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it.”
Just a single bar of gold is worth 0.88 million dollars right now since gold is at an all time high of 2,200 per troy ounce. A "good bar" is a 400 troy ounce bar of gold. Its the largest standard bar of gold available.
Well...seeing as less than 1% of all people who served in WW2 are still alive today, I'd say it's unlikely, at best. Can't take riches to the next life.
The Soviets did steal more than this from the countries they occupied and looted, countries like Finland, Tanu Tuva, Estonia, Letonia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Cehia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, Mongolia, Manchiuria, Afghanistan, Georgia and Ukraine.
God Bless you General Patton. * precisely * when you needed to be you were there. and God Bless all those who served under you what was the consensus? pretty good l imagine. in another life l was born USA 1915 served under him.
Huh, distributing the gold to central banks. I'm utterly shocked at that turn of events. Would have been absurd to think that the gold should be returned to Germany's coffers or something.
Articulate your words and leave the dramatic voicing behind. Perhaps adjust your mic setup. And as others have said, lose the music or at least turn it down.
Remember; back then our own U.S. dollar was still backed by Gold. At the exchange rate of $35. per Oz. of Gold! In the 1960's my Dad's weeks pay was thus about three ounces of Gold. With gold nearly $2,700. per Oz. I'd need about 9000. Per week just to be equal with what my dad earned 50 years ago!!!!
when they crossed the river they went south, they went after the secret weapons mines where nazis had anti gravity crafts.... the operation paperclip was put into effect to get the scientists to America who helped to develop them:)
While the Russians were dying around Berlin, you were chasing German gold. You probably haven't found all the gold in Germany because you're still there.
What a dumb comment. You're acting like all of the troops stopped fighting to deal with this situation. We are at least transparent. If the soviets had found this, nobody would've gotten anything back.
What about the fallen families that were robbed, nations that were pillaged in the course of the vile crimes committed under Hitler’s orders. If you want to hand out reparations to certain entities, you must not overlook those entities that were relieved of possession of that which you would like to parcel. Sounds like the gold would be stolen twice at that point. Nazi Germany did not invade the U.S. and steal our fortunes, art, and destroy our historic structures. Hitler did not ride down Pennsylvania Avenue in his convertible Mercedes-Benz. Hitler ran roughshod over the countries of Europe and tried his damndest to rid Europe and the planet of the Jewish people. So maybe there’s some people not of our wonderful country that deserved the “spoils of war” far more than America does. Our government should dig into its own pockets to give financial benefit to those that fought, and especially those that paid the ultimate price, in the war. It’s our responsibility to take care of our own veterans. These are our heroes. They, and their families need to know that the country they fight for will take care of them regardless if a stash of stolen loot is found or not.
if my math is correct that would be over 4.5 trillion today. Conider that next time you talk money. A dollar in is would be worth about 18 dooalr now. When I trted working in 1980 ONE MILLION DOLLARS wa a loty of month but in 1980- dollars about 330,000.
The work by U.S. Army Signal Corps to capture film records of these events is (1) priceless, and (2) probably unprecedented. How many times have towns, cities and even countries been sacked with no record kept? Abuses happened, but this is a singular example of accountability.
I seem to recall Eisenhauer may have had a lot to do with that, including the exhaustive photo and film evidence concerning the concentration camps. Something about, "If we don't record this for history, there will be those who will say it never happened.", or words to that effect. Eisenhauer also warned about the "military industrial complex" prior to becoming President. He was a wise man.
Not prior, after in the farewell speech. You could never get elected if you warned of that before you were president
@@metaglypto Eisenhower? Yeah, that is what he said about the camps but I'm not sure what the policy was on other operations. It would be cool to research and write a script for a vidoe.
In ancient times the winning army got the spoils. The winning government would spread the wealth among its population. Now soldiers are prosecuted if found with the smallest piece of property. Even pictures.
@douglasmesina6922 , as late as the Napoleanic Wars, a primary motivator of French soldiers was the implied license to loot areas they captured. Apparently, senior leaders who did so came in for more scrutiny, at least based on popular, non-scholarly history resources I've found.
My grandfather was in that crowd somewhere. He started serving under Patton in Africa. Went from there to eventually walking into Germany.
A useful Goy he was.
Mine too.
My Gramps also was the seargent of the first platoon to come upon a concentration camp for children. It messed his mind up. He had 6 children but would freak out if one got sick or injured.
@nathantoney.1501 Yeah, I could tell that about my grandfather, too. He never talked about any of his escapades, but I didn't realize it until after he died. My mom and aunts were going through his ribbons and medals, and my mom said this was for that, and I said, "He told ma about that." So I spent the next bit reciting tales. Like one where he laid in a cratered apple orchard, looking uphill into a church steeple sometime after Normandy. One helmet bobbed in front of the tall, slender bell tower opening, and he knocked the helmet off. He heard it banging down the stairwell. The next thing that crossed the opening wasn't so lucky. He followed Patton from the 3rd in Africa to the 7th. My grandfather and his spotter were one of Patton's two favorite teams, so they got special projects.
@@showxating9885 Special projects, like stealing gold?
I was stationed in Germany in 1990-1996 and went to the camps, they had pictures of the shoes in train cars and in a massive warehouse that was the most horrible thing I have ever seen. That was before you went into the camp. After that I have no words to describe how evil these people were.
Unfortunately we are seeing history repeating again and it’s very similar to what was done in 1935.
Finally! 😊
yes Israel now communing genocide . what did the Jews learn from the Nazis ? they learnt how to marginalise, discriminate and make ghettoes . pretty much learnt how to emulate Nazis
yep. aimed at the Jews again. there is a thread of evil in the human experience.
@currentbatches6205 Gaza
Pure propaganda.
The containers of gold teeth hit me.
A number of U.S. Marines fighting in the Pacific were known to extract gold teeth from dead Japanese soldiers. Neither is acceptable.
Its awful, especially when i think i could be looking at family members teeth and never know
Fake news, the story is about as airtight as a cheap office door...
Use it ! Melt it down ! 😎
@@G-ra-ha-mgo away Trumper!
Excellent as usually
So, the gold was never in a Sub. Finally released information. Thank you. I don’t need to dive down to the subs any more.
Yea me too, old ship off North Carolina, gold, glomar fleet.
That treasure (minus the artwork) was $8.7 billion USD today.
That means there were other places with similar hauls .
@@nobody687like Soros stash
US pays around 11 billion each year in interest.
@@YuckFoutube-e1z Of Course They Do- Just To Show That They’re STILL INTERESTED, In Other Stashes Like This, Spread All Over The Planet, You Bet The Government Is Paying Close INTEREST, With Everyone Else’s Money, Do You Remember The U.S. President, That With The Flick Of His Fountain Pen ✒️, On One Particular Day, Literally; “ In The Blink Of An Eye” Made It ILLEGAL For ANY “American”, To POSSESS, PURCHASE, SELL, Or To Use In Any Form Of Barter, GOLD, In Any Form, Including “Raw” ( Ore ), Or Dust Or Nuggets ?? That’s A Pretty Broad Range & Detailed Description Of Exactly What They Meant , &
POOF 💨!!! Everyone ( Umm Hmm ) Complied, Because The Ruse Was Sold ( Pun Intended) For Everyone’s Gold, To Put The Good Old U.S.Of A. , Back On The Gold Standard, Which Meant Our Currency, Was WORTH EVERY CENT, Was Backed By Gold, For Any & All Transactions, Domestic & Abroad, Private Or Commercial, But It Wasn’t Very Long Before The Bottom Fell Out Of That Barrel, Due To ( A BIG Part), Too Many Monkeys Were IN The Barrel, With YOUR Interests In Mind, ( Not A Schmidge Of YOUR INTERESTS), With Their Hands Outreaching For Even More $$ , And Ever Since, Clear Up To TODAY, The D.C. Monkeys Have Been Perfecting Their Creative Skills, For The Sole Purpose Of “ Separating YOU , From YOUR $$” , All While Printing More $$, At Unprecedented, Break-Neck Speeds, Just TO PAY That “ Interest “, You’re Speaking Of…. Watch, The Next Time, Some Happy Treasure Hunter Stumbles ( Yeah, After YEARS Of Researching & Verifying), Finds That Sunken Merchant Ship From The 15 -16 Hundreds , OVERLOADED With Ancient Gold Treasures, & Finds Out In A Flash, That It Belongs To So & So , From Such & Such , Here’s Your Cease & Desist Orders, This Entire Operation & ALL Assets Used To Locate It , Are Formally Seized,Confiscated, (Stolen) Right Out From Under You Physically, & Metaphorically, & Warned To Vacate, Disperse, (LEAVE) Or Else Be Arrested For Trespassing With Intent To Defraud,So&So Of Such & Such, Where , After ALL Of This Occurs, IS The Ever Elusive “ INTEREST “, Just An Example Of The Happenings, Past, Present & Future, Of Normal, Everyday “Americans”
That Don’t Have A Special Govt. I.D., Or The Birth Certificate Of Their First Child, Readily Accessible, On Your Person, LOL 😝, Let’s Make A Deal, Type Stuff , Just Sayin , ANY TIME, ANY TIME…. You’re Dealing With A Huge Amount Of $$ , In ANY FORM, It’s Best To Just Take A Mental Picture Of It, All Or In Part, And Prepare Yourself To Be Part Of A Shit Show , That You May, Or MAY NOT, Ever Recover From, & Thank God, IF You Actually Do Get Another Chance To Be Upright & Breathing, You’ll Have Your Own Mental Picture On Which You Can Call Upon, IF You’re Silly Enough To TRY & Explain Your Experience To Anyone… Ohhh , Have The Times Changed… With Interest …😊👍🏻✌🏻🙏🏻🤐😳🤔⬛️◼️◾️▪️💨🫵🏻
@@YuckFoutube-e1zummmmm next year our biggest budget item will not be the 645 billion for military. It will be Interest on the national debt.
Well well well! Every story I’ve ever heard on all this gold states never was found. But we the USA I think have all those wedding rings. That photo/video was chilling. It must have been hard to try and reunite said artwork etc.. to the rightful owners. Which I believe is still going on. Great video Doc
It would be interesting to determine how much was returned or marked unknown. Then final disposition of the unknown portions.
Yes the art work is still going on.
There were boatloads of gold and currency that the Germans moved to Argentina etc, buying businesses or starting them. Also, there were caches buried all over Germany. What is known is that not all have been found, such as the train of gold that some folks thought they had located a few years ago, and the chests of gold placed in the lake. What was found is still incredible.
"I have orders. This bank isn't to fall into the hands of the American army." "Sergeant, this bank's not gonna fall into the hands of the American army. It's gonna fall in our hands."
Kelly's Heroes. Awesome quote.
my favorite movie of all time !!!
oddball is my favorite…
My question is, what did the US do with it? was that the gold that was in FT Knox? and now seems to be missing.
@@richb419
its a quote from a Clint Eastwood movie called Kelly’s Heroes…
😂 oddball: it's still up!
*Cargo ship*
No it ain't...
Bravo for the moral fortitude to do the right thing with those treasures.
My grandparents' gold could be in there. Here's the craziest part: a large amount of the gold Germans stole is by now in the teeth fillings of other people, both living and dead, in electronics, jewelry, and other objects around the world. It could have come from the purchases and plunder of thousands of people and places across thousands of years. If gold could talk, the stories...
This video reminds me of the movie Kelly's Heroes
its what its based on.
Always with the negative waves Moriarity! 🤠
@@joeromanak8797crap...
@@stonefox9124 - Go talk to him. Maybe he’s a republican.
It reminds me of the more recent movie The Monuments Men.
Power starts with ideology, but it always ends with greed. ALWAYS
SO HOW MUCH WENT MISSING 🤔 WE WONDER.😮😢
Beat me to it.
I'm betting there is still stuff hiden in Germany and long forgotten. I hope they find it someday.
I posted a reply to a post that I feel needs to be echoed. Some may read the responses and feel the only people fighting were Americans. It took the USA some time to join the war, and the British, French, and others were already fighting a desperate conflict. When D Day came, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and many others were there. Relatives of mine (British) are buried in Cemeteries in distant places too. They fought and died side by side, this wasn’t just an American fight
My uncle (Canadian) was there as well. There were many heroes in that war.
Brits would have lost by 1942 if America wasn't saving their asses every step of the way
Russia won the second world war. The USA and UK played very small parts in the war.
Lol why did my comment get deleted 😂 all I said was Britain would have lost before 1942 if America wasn't holding their hand every step of the way
It’s a team thing, the ultimate victories. That being said - You’re Welcome.
Could you please turn down the background music. It’s far too loud and distracting.
Not sure what you were listening to
The music is totally unnecessary, we aren't TikTokkers !! 😡
Any one who ads music to videos is........
Get your hearing checked
@@Octez5494 I know it's not the best. Far to many bullets for me
gold teeth , watches and signets... obviously the teeth are number 1 , but watches and signets.. these carry so much emotion and are so .. personal objects ... it hurts...
Don’t forget the gold teeth taken from the extermination camps.
@@CathyMahaffey-p8j that's what I said 😅
And some of that gold was from human teeth that was taken from the alleged concentration camps . But they were actually death camps
That’s at the 10:15 mark in the video.
lots of gold wedding rings too.@@fromontario6954
You are a genius
P.o.w. camps full of communist.
Death camps with swimming pools, maternity wards, soccer fields, orchestra and even a brothel? Dig deeper my friend. Watch Europa the last battle or the greatest story never told. We were all lied to.
The Bank of England kept the treasure for only 50 years. Meanwhile, they doubled it's value five times or more and kept the interest, no doubt.
Precious metals do indeed increase in value. But how do they pay _"interest"?_
Probably helped pay for the Brits being the only nation to stand up to the Nazis and seeing their country battered.
The cases of gold teeth always gives me shivers. All those dead Jews, may they rest in peace!! And may we never see the likes of war like this again!
🥱 20 million plus soviets died. Stop making noise about 8 million
And after the war except for a few top German generals, they all got to go home and live to a ripe old age. Not the Jews who were murdered.
Good fertilizer
Well, if you want to see this again - vote for Trump.
@stubbsmusic543 🤡🤡 The party literally leading us to war with Russia & allowing Nathan yahu to mess up, won't do this.. but trump who started no wars, will? Lmaoooo you so 'smart' u a bot
there is no lost gold train but it's fun to fantasize about. waiting in a forgotten tunnel somewhere that doesn't exist
Yup. But I bet there is still some hiden somewhere.
This was touched on in the 2014 George Clooney film, “The Monuments Men.”.
George C. Looney wasnt the only actor in that movie, it was PACKED with big names!
This is probably the part of the movie The Monuments Men that we didn't get to see. I like to watch movies that are based on true story
Back to the Future part 2 is my all time favorite historical movie.
8000 bars of gold... Germans are like, could have sworn we counted 8765 the day before these dudes showed up. What are you getting at Hans, you saying a bunch of gold bars just grew legs or what?
Pretty round number
Is that a gold bar in your pants
That's torture making them count it and play with it ' for future post war weapons '
Thus it is explained all of the novels, stories and movies I heard, read and saw when i was about 10 while growing up in the sixties. Glad to hear there was some truth in there.
My father found some of it at Hughes Aircraft company, some hoe it ended up in plant 42 near Tucson Arizona, The art work and gold were inside a missile bunker. I believe they returned it to Europe in the 1990's. He worked there for like 32 years, after his stroke he mentioned it. Later It was found.
Is there any info on where all this gold went?
This makes me wonder what happened to the "Amber room?" My thought are most likely it was destroyed while being moved...or its sunk somewhere either on a submarine or like just dumped in a lake to hide it. Who knows but its been 75 years and it never turned up.
The germans did burn a lot of art work. Infact it was all ordered to be destroyed but a lot of the comandors refused to do it.
The Palace has a reconstruction of the Amber Room, but it would have been nice to have been able to see the original. The room isn't all that big by the way.
And even in 2024, these artworks are being located with rightful ownership. Personal jewelry being connected to where stolen from. It’s taking a long process
Clint Eastwood,Donald Sutherland,Telly Sevalis,and Don Wrickles from "Kellys Heroes"
were there too
Didn't Frank Sonatra defeat Germany in WWII?
Telly Savalas and Don Rickles
@@craig1479 Thank you I stand corrected
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Let’s not forget that it wasn’t just Americans. It took the US a couple of years to to join the fighting, and others fought alongside them.
Thanks. ✌🏻👊🏼
The gold became more important than the war.
The gold should be given to any family who lost loved ones to the Nazis
So what happened to the gold and supposedly the spoils of the camps? Where
did it end up? In some fund for the avera j evprrsons on all sides who found themselves destitute or disabled by the War?
Or some vaults in London
or in darling New York.
100 tons of gold today would be valued around $7,500,000,000.00. Especially since gold is at an all time high of $2,200.00 per troy ounce.
$7,500,000,000.00. That's how much money the U.S. government squanders, er, ah, spends every hour.
The discoveries during the liberation of Dachau definitely was the biggest surprise.
The Monuments Men
Seeing this, reminds me of the movie. Monument's Men, you should do a story about that if it is true.
Excellent narrator
Leaving aside my thoughts turning to 'Kelly's Heroes' did he say Easter Holidays were a problem?
I often wonder what happened to the treasures plundered by the Nazis. How much was accounted for? How much helped Germany's pist war recovery? How much was kept by German people or looted by the victors?
Although not as much…in Iraq soldiers found similar gold bars in large quantities.
It was The 9th infantry division who took Ludendorff bridge and crossed The Rhine, Not the 3rd! 🤔
🎵🎶All the burning bridges that have fallen after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning bridges lost forevermore
I'm glad I'm not the only one that remembers "Kelly's Heroes".
Best theme tune ever.
Gold is the only substance that is not destroyed by mass crematoriums.
How much of that gold came from prisoners’ teeth?
Unfortunately, “Germany was the dress rehearsal for the United States.” (11/5/24)
Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it.”
So where did it all go
This video is missing context, without the inflation adjusted value of the treasures.
The context is that Germany amassed a fortune in gold and fine art they stole from their murdered victims.
Very interesting but sad.
My father and his group weren’t there to capture gold and riches
you think anyone snuck out a gold bar or two for themselves?
Could be
Kelly's Heroes.
The price of gold in 1945 was around $35 an ounce. So factoring for inflation at $2000oz in 2024 gives over 14 billion in today's money.
Theres only so much gold. I wonder how many times its been won lost and sold
Wonder how much was spirited away ...
A bunch retired in Argentina.
THANX GRANDPA
The Monuments Men!
l can tell you where the gold and silver went NOT to other country's but to the good old USA
Woe to the vanquished.
Just a single bar of gold is worth 0.88 million dollars right now since gold is at an all time high of 2,200 per troy ounce. A "good bar" is a 400 troy ounce bar of gold. Its the largest standard bar of gold available.
The major gold from Germany was in the banks in New York . It was returned to Germany .
?? Are you sure it wasn't used to reimburse U.S. for the $billionS the war cost? Or to rebuild Germany?
I hope every soldier that was there is a millionaire today!
I was thinking and hoping the same thing.
Well...seeing as less than 1% of all people who served in WW2 are still alive today, I'd say it's unlikely, at best. Can't take riches to the next life.
They are all ☠️
Of course stealing is good, right.
I don't think any are left.....maybe their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
WITH THE VICTORS OF WAR COME THE TREASURES OF WAR
yes - how much of that was looted & taken to the US & (possibly),even to Britain ?!
It was returned. What could be anyway.
Imagine the Soviets found this, we’d never have known about it.
Exactly, and everyone knocks on the US. At least we have some sort of transparency.
The Soviets did steal more than this from the countries they occupied and looted, countries like Finland, Tanu Tuva, Estonia, Letonia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Cehia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, Mongolia, Manchiuria, Afghanistan, Georgia and Ukraine.
One of the best levels in the original medal of honor
I know nothing… I see nothing…
Thank you Sgt. Schultz.
God Bless you General Patton. * precisely * when you needed to be you were there.
and God Bless all those who served under you what was the consensus? pretty good
l imagine. in another life l was born USA 1915 served under him.
Huh, distributing the gold to central banks. I'm utterly shocked at that turn of events. Would have been absurd to think that the gold should be returned to Germany's coffers or something.
The count on those gold bars would have been more…. 😆
Articulate your words and leave the dramatic voicing behind. Perhaps adjust your mic setup. And as others have said, lose the music or at least turn it down.
8198 my arse; someone prestidigitated a couple bars.
thanks for dropping your intro
I thought Kelly found the gold in Kelly's heroes
My pockets and bag wuda been full
Actually the most mind-blowing discovery literally of world war II was the atomic bomb
Yet there was a more expensive program other then the "manhattan project". And it was the B29 program.
For sure !!
They didn’t exactly discover the A bomb laying around somewhere, they had to build it!
Invention, not "discovery".
@@JSp4wNI came here to point out exactly that.
“Discovered” implies that someone found it sitting around somewhere.
Who loves Dark Docs?….I do!!!!
George Kennedy in the movie, " Brass Target."
Save the Reichbank! We've done that a few times.😅😅😅
Respectfully, the most mind blowing discovery of WWII was the discovery of the death camps. Gold bars? Artwork? No, not even close.
The Germans were killing up to 15,000 souls per day. Its hard to imagine how much hate it takes to drive such a force.
Not rly, the Governments kinda understood what was happening at the point of their liberations
No, that‘s historically incorrect. It was known, but there were no good solutions available
They knew pretty soon after it started.
The British press first published a story about it in 1942
Remember the movie "Kelly's Heroes"?
I prefer to watch the movie: The Monuments Men. It was more thorough, and the men and women who did the work were in terrible danger all the time.
Gangsters. Looters. Murderers.
There is hardly a "gov't" that doesn't fit one or all of those descriptions.
The banality of evil. No truer words have been spoken.
Remember; back then our own U.S. dollar was still backed by Gold. At the exchange rate of $35. per Oz. of Gold!
In the 1960's my Dad's weeks pay was thus about three ounces of Gold. With gold nearly $2,700. per Oz. I'd need about 9000. Per week just to be equal with what my dad earned 50 years ago!!!!
And going by the reports of what Japan had hidden this was a piggy bank in comparison.
Please don't forget the fact that they also took any gold found in the bodies of those who they killed including dental fillings Etc.
when they crossed the river they went south, they went after the secret weapons mines where nazis had anti gravity crafts.... the operation paperclip was put into effect to get the scientists to America who helped to develop them:)
Like James Brown said "I need some money" 💲💲💲💲
Some many movies about Navi gold….
gold and other treasure is only reason why you go robbing around
Yeah, that's exactly what the Russians do.
While the Russians were dying around Berlin, you were chasing German gold. You probably haven't found all the gold in Germany because you're still there.
What a dumb comment. You're acting like all of the troops stopped fighting to deal with this situation. We are at least transparent. If the soviets had found this, nobody would've gotten anything back.
Some soldiers came home very rich.
As much as I love these types of historical videos but sadly the commentary I find extremely difficult to understand as an English speaking person
Try to get a narrator who can speak naturally to help make your videos watchable
But how much gold found its way out of Germany home with GI’s? Hopefully quite a bit to pay for lost time at home. To the victors go the spoils!
Logistical chaos from the Easter Holiday.....Really.
It should have been shared with the soldiers. Giving it to gruberment only leads to more WAR.😡
Yes at least to the fallen families it should have been given.
What about the fallen families that were robbed, nations that were pillaged in the course of the vile crimes committed under Hitler’s orders.
If you want to hand out reparations to certain entities, you must not overlook those entities that were relieved of possession of that which you would like to parcel. Sounds like the gold would be stolen twice at that point.
Nazi Germany did not invade the U.S. and steal our fortunes, art, and destroy our historic structures. Hitler did not ride down Pennsylvania Avenue in his convertible Mercedes-Benz. Hitler ran roughshod over the countries of Europe and tried his damndest to rid Europe and the planet of the Jewish people.
So maybe there’s some people not of our wonderful country that deserved the “spoils of war” far more than America does.
Our government should dig into its own pockets to give financial benefit to those that fought, and especially those that paid the ultimate price, in the war. It’s our responsibility to take care of our own veterans. These are our heroes. They, and their families need to know that the country they fight for will take care of them regardless if a stash of stolen loot is found or not.
what would that gold be worth today??
at 100 tons exactly and calling it $2100 per ounce the total in today's dollars would be 6 billion, 700 million
if my math is correct that would be over 4.5 trillion today. Conider that next time you talk money. A dollar in is would be worth about 18 dooalr now. When I trted working in 1980 ONE MILLION DOLLARS wa a loty of month but in 1980- dollars about 330,000.
Those were gold teeth being poured out of that box
GOLD 👶 😊