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Citations needed

I've added 'citation needed' tags to some of the 'Croatia' section. Courtroom 'factual allegations' are not evidence. They are just that, allegations, and the evidence upon which they are made are not provided in this article or in the external link. Thus, proper sources are required. I haven't deleted it, because the 'Bigelow Report' sounds impressive, but it requires proper sources immediately. Bastin 00:37, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

The Holocaust Industry

"The Holocaust Industry" reference is being deleted because it has nothing to do with Nazi gold or bank accounts.

Agreed. When I went over this article, that particularly irrelevant entry escaped my attention. Bastin 12:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

"in popular culture" section

As it currently stands, I would suggest removing this section entirely. — Alan^✉ 07:57, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2 years later, a few things had been added and a couple removed ([1]), but the section was still a list of mentions and MacGuffins. The 'in popular culture'/'trivia' tag explicitly says that a section such as this should explain the subject's impact on popular culture, not collect mentions.

In short, I agree, the whole section should go, so I've been bold and removed it. Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 14:40, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Today's dollars

The article writes:"During the war, Nazi Germany continued this practice, only on a larger scale. Germany expropriated $550m of gold from foreign governments, including $223m from Belgium and $193m from the Netherlands.[2] This does not include that stolen from private citizens or companies, which would necessarily inflate the figure."

Well, in 1945, you could by a new basic car for about US$700 in the United States.In 1940 decade, the Bretton Woods Conference fixed the gold price at $35 per troy ounce(31.1 grams).Dividing 550,000,000 for 35, we will get about 15,714,285 troy ounces.Today, each gold ounce costs about US$1,000.In today's gold value, these 15,714,285 ounces would have the value of about US$15,000,000,000.Agre22 (talk) 02:58, 3 May 2009 (UTC)agre22[reply]

Japanese war loot

there should be a link to other war loot, such as Japanese war loot:

http://www.rense.com/general49/sece.htm

Or, link to "war loot" in general.

HAWAT THUFIR (talk) 21:31, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Portugal

The first paragraph of the Portugal section includes: ... was one of the centres of tungsten production ... and the second paragraph includes: ... this came through the sale of wolfram .... This may be confusing to readers who do not know Tungsten and Wolfram are the same thing. 65.26.236.170 (talk) 21:23, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What happened to the gold?

OK, but what happened to the gold found by the Americans and sent to Frankfurt? Was it given back to Germany? There is no information about it as about the other gold found. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.192.218.126 (talk) 05:30, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Frankfurt was and is in the American Zone. So that may be some of the gold which was taken to the US for safe keeping. Some of it went back to Germany in recent years. Frankfurt housed and houses the DEGUSSA (Deutsche Gold- und Silberscheide Anstalt). Frankfurt was very kaputt at the time and circumstances were chaotic. I would not be surprised if the gold was melted down and rebranded. I heard lots of stories from my parents generations about chaos, anarchy, and lawlessness - just like in all war areas. 2001:8003:A070:7F00:20AD:3857:4C7E:8BA8 (talk) 06:19, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]