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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1560317, member: 22143&quot;]Not really.&nbsp; After Hitler took control of the government the German government had practically no gold.&nbsp; When WWII started, whenever Germany took over a country, the first act was to move in to the central bank of that country and remove the gold reserves.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was literally 1000s of tons of gold.&nbsp; Furthermore, there was a great deal more gold pilfered from Jews who were exterminated in the concentration camps.&nbsp; Before the bodies were disposed of, they went through a process of removing all gold items including wedding rings, necklaces, and dental fillings.&nbsp; In addition, for much of the 40s and 50s leading up to the time when you said German gold was removed, Germany didn&#039;t have much in the way of surpluses.&nbsp; It&#039;s infrastructure had been destroyed.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, I disagree with your dismissal.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t make any sense.&nbsp; Finally, the Swiss were found to have been holding Nazi gold in the early 2000s that belonged to the Jews.&nbsp; So the gold was not repatriated as you state.&nbsp; I can&#039;t imagine that western interests would willingly turn over anything to Stalin.&nbsp; And if Stalin got ahold of it, then it would have never been counted as part of Germany&#039;s reserves in the first place.</p><p><br /></p><p>I contend that German gold at the Federal Reserve was put there to keep it out of the hands of the Soviets.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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