History Channel - Dead Mens Secrets Set 2 (2002) Part 3 Tracking Nazi Gold

Dead men don't tell tales - or do they? Are there forensic clues left in the sands of time? Are there traces of archive film which even today are waiting to unveil their grisly secret? Not all the captivating and fascinating stories of military escapades in the 20th Century have been fully examined and many fascinating insights are still to be revealed and told. These have been known until now as DEADMEN'S SECRETS. Who really was 'The Man Who Never Was'? This and many other fascinating questions are answered in this pivotal series entitled DEADMEN'S SECRETS. With newly discovered archive film and new state of the art 3D computer graphics the series sets out to answer some of the most baffling questions and war mysteries of the 20th Century. What was the truth about Odessa File and whatever happened to Raoul Wallenberg? What did the Oslo Report reveal and who wrote it? And how close was Hitler to developing the atomic bomb at the end of World War II? Some of the answers are both frightening and unexpected. With the release of new Government information on both sides of the Atlantic it is now possible to painstakingly reconstruct some of the most famous mysteries of recent military history. DEADMEN'S SECRETS is the first serious attempt this Century to lay some of the last Century's most puzzling ghosts to rest.

Part 3 Tracking Nazi Gold

In the chaos that surrounded the fall of Berlin, millions of dollars of gold went missing from the Reichsbank, taken by the Nazis and hidden deep in the German countryside. The Nazis also stole from their victims, thieving from the very corpses of the Jews they murdered in the concentration camps. As Hitler advanced across Europe, gold from defeated countries was shipped to Germany to fund the war machine. Hitler found other sources of income–Jewish prisoners lost everything–jewelry, savings, even their gold fillings. And Jews who stored money in “neutral” Swiss banks would never see that money again - their children and grandchildren could not gain access to it because of stringent Swiss 'privacy' laws. Among the many casualties of World War II was a significant portion of Europe's gold reserves. In the early days of the war Hitler systematically plundered the treasuries and banks of the nations he conquered. The utter destruction of Germany made tracking this vast wealth seem an impossible task. From the drained wealth of nations to family heirlooms and gold fillings taken from the victims of the Holocaust, DEAD MEN'S SECRETS traces sixty years of efforts to reclaim the lost riches of a continent. Experts like Irwin Cotler, who chaired an enquiry into the topic, shed light on the convoluted path taken by the many missing fortunes, while former soldiers, bank guards and survivors put a human face on this fascinating tale.

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