Reichsbank
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Oct 11, 2026
Francis BiddleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Later, Goering led his fellow conspirators in congratulating Schacht, von Papen, and Fritsche on their newly gained freedom.
Francis BiddleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The former president of the Reichsbank talks to the press, while von Papen, diplomat of two wars, seemed to take his release with philosophic calm.
Francis BiddleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In the afternoon, by order of the Tribunal, no cameramen were allowed to be present when the guilty men received their sentences.
Francis BiddleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But recordings bring much of the drama of those historic pronouncements by the president of the court Defendant Hermann Wilhelm Goering, on the counts of the indictment on which you have been convicted, the International Military Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging.
Don QHOST
The war starts and the bills are not paid with taxes.
Don QHOST
They are paid with debt from the Reichsbank.
Don QHOST
Discounts.
Don QHOST
By the armistice, the money supply has already multiplied.
Don QHOST
The state which owes in a currency it can print.
Don QHOST
Anyone sitting on dollars, sterling, gold, land, inventory, or a foreign bank account.
Don QHOST
The Reichsbank's officials later estimate tens of billions of paper marks picked up by non-residents through deposits and note purchases from 1914 to 1923.
Don QHOST
Some of that is speculation in the currency.
Simon DixonGUEST
I mean, if you look at, I'll give you some crazy examples.
Simon DixonGUEST
The Reichsbank, which was the German bank between World War I, World War II, every time Hitler would invade a country, Czechoslovakia, he would basically go to the Reichsbank And the Rice Bank would then go to the Bank for International Settlements and say, hey, you know that gold that used to be Czechoslovakia? That's now Germans.
Simon DixonGUEST
And the Bank for International Settlements would say, all right, we've changed ownership.
Simon DixonGUEST
That gold is now owned by Germany.
Simon DixonGUEST
Yes.
Simon DixonGUEST
Yes.
Simon DixonGUEST
Even this, the governor of the Federal Reserve, Warburg, His brother was also the governor of the German Reichsbank.
Julian DoreyHOST
Come on.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
The secret of BIS became the crucial financial partner for the Nazis.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
The vice president of the Reichsbank, Emil Puhl, who was a close associate of McKittrick, once called BIS the Reichsbank's only foreign branch.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
It was responsible for a lot of the nazi gold management within switzerland um one thing is that bis is located within switzerland that's not a coincidence all the kind of that kind of like trite frame that like all phrasing that all the nazi gold is in switzerland accumulated during the war.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
I would presume that that's because of BIS.
John HamerGUEST
Again, that doesn't go down well.
John HamerGUEST
They shut down the Reichsbank, which again, This is what prompted the famous newspaper headline in the British Daily Express from 1933, which says Judea declares war on Germany.
John HamerGUEST
And that's what prompted the whole thing in the 1930s with the Jews, you know, the Jewish bankers, basically.
John HamerGUEST
And this was because of Hitler closing down the Reichsbank, which was a German central bank.
Christian WhiteHOST
Well, lastly here because I know we better wrap up here.
Christian WhiteHOST
As it pertains to Hitler, Mos Paulsvik, I don't know if you're familiar with him, but he's someone I've had on a couple times.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
Uh, the secretive BIS became the crucial financial part- partner for the Nazis.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
The vice president of the Reichsbank, Emil Puhl, uh, who was a close associate of McKittrick, once called BIS the Reichsbank only...
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
The only foreign branch.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
Uh, it was responsible for a lot of the, uh, Nazi gold management within Switzerland.
Nigel JonesGUEST
He was a very arrogant, aristocratic chap.
Eric MeyersNARRATOR
The other acquittals are Hjalmar Schacht, former president of the Reichsbank, and Hans Fritzsche, an official from the propaganda ministry.
Eric MeyersNARRATOR
And with the sentences handed out, they are released.
Eric MeyersNARRATOR
The seven to be sent to prison remain incarcerated at Nuremberg before being transferred to Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Alexandra KonsHOST
Yes, yes, yes
BaddersGUEST
... it's a, um, it's a Reichsbank note-
Alexandra KonsHOST
Mm-hmm
BaddersGUEST
... note or whatever for, uh, 50,000 Deutschmark from the, from the Weimar Republic.
Hannah McGregorHOST
It made it impossible for any country to inquire into their fate and it enabled the state in which they were resident to confiscate their property.
Hannah McGregorHOST
The Ministry of Finance and the Reichsbank prepared facilities to receive the huge loot from all over Europe, all of which was sorted out in the Reichsbank and then sent to the Prussian state mint.
Hannah McGregorHOST
The Ministry of Transportation provided the necessary railroad cars, usually freight cars, and they saw to it that the schedule of the deportation trains did not conflict with other timetables.
Hannah McGregorHOST
That part made me nauseous.
John GuntherSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
was none other than Dr. Schacht,
Rudy ValleeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the juggler of the German Reichsbank.
John GuntherSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Another finance minister with a whimsical sideline is Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer.
John GuntherSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mr. Chamberlain loves birds
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