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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 306476, member: 39&quot;]According to the Swiss WW2 and nazi gold commission (UEK) about 120 kg gold, mostly from the jewellery and teeth of people killed in the KZ &quot;camps&quot;, were used for making them, along with other gold. But as you will know, the Swiss central bank then bought a lot of gold from Nazi Germany. And the German government&#039;s primary source was not what Melmer and others &quot;delivered&quot; but confiscated gold from the occupied countries.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh well, just as some governments today say that it is legitimate to attack a country based on false allegations, to kidnap people anywhere in the world and detain them without trial, in the name of safeguarding one&#039;s own security, the Swiss government back then may have thought that the buying the gold was necessary to make its currency more stable and thus to some degree guarantee the country&#039;s security and independence at a time when it was literally surrounded by Nazi Germany and its allies. Or take a very recent example: Only fairly recently, coins from Libya would have been front row exhibits in a gallery of shame. Now the same coins may not be on display there any more because that would politically not be opportune these days ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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