How Did Hitler Fund The Nazi War Machine? | Myth Hunters | War Stories

Fighting a world war doesn't come cheap, however Nazi Germany managed to pull this off whilst their country's economy was in pieces. How exactly then did Hitler find the money to wage war on this kind of scale?
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[@mishecketengani7418]

Switzerland with every complicit financial deal in the world 🙌😂

[@benediktmorak4409]

For them the old Roman proverb still holds good, and always will be - Pecunia non olet -, cash does not smell. WIKI has the whole story who said it first.

[@stephengrimmer35]

If you can lift those boxes, they aren't full of gold.

[@KLFaber]

Correct. A single standard gold bar weighs approximately 70lbs.

[@RalphieMuskinyaar]

She said the smaller ones were the heavy ones

[@ianking-jv4hg]

Very rough rule of thumb Gold is more than 1/3rd heavier than lead by mass.

[@ohasis8331]

@@KLFaber 400 ounces Troy.

[@jimmydolphin9653]

The way the narrator says gold just cracks me up. Gooollld!

[@jh2309]

Has anyone thought that the heavy boxes might contain the plates used the make the counterfeit notes?

[@deathlarsen7502]

good call

[@DarcyS369]

They started a company that was backed by all the biggest companies in Germany and they had that company print company bank notes and paid industry with them as loans. Very smart.

[@paigetomkinson1137]

Do you mean the Mefo bills they used to pay the rearmament factories?

[@Joseph-sj9uf]

U talking about MEFO?

[@seanprice7645]

this isn't how it was "funded" though. this was just a domestic wartime monetary policy. it was funded from abroad..

[@KramerMC5]

'Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick' is a documentary that may enlighten you.

[@brian3174]

@@KramerMC5 best real history. Of 20th century

[@5_meter_spread]

Germany stole the gold, then the allies stole the gold

[@andybrown6981]

Wouldn't even start to pay for reparations or loss of lives

[@busterbiloxi3833]

Then it was sold to Pawn Stars and they had to frame it. And that costs money!

[@bartle6168]

And the USA gained. In fact the USA received a ship hold of gold before France fell and the US didn't just protect it, they kept it all. It's why economies are no longer based on gold.

[@sundance7328]

This docu failed to live up to my expectations in so many ways. The narrator is way over the top given the actual content. Heavy boxes are gonna be the printing plates for the forgeries

[@busterbiloxi3833]

You know it all, Sherlock.

[@ImGoingSupersonic]

This was extremely interesting. One of those stories related to WW2 by definition, but not the classic bomb and gun stories.

[@tressietes04]

Bankers. Kind of ironic ehhhh.

[@mini_mozzer]

lmao

[@OliverClothesofff]

Oy vey

[@seanprice7645]

the echo is reverberating. shut it down.

[@mini_mozzer]

@@OliverClothesofff 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mini_mozzer]

@@seanprice7645 based pfp

[@robertdelacruz2951]

Excellent story about treasure hunters and their faith in rumors. Well done.

[@markfryer9880]

"We'll all be rich! As rich as Nazis!" C. Montgomery Burns. This might help to explain how Mr Burns got so wealthy with a fabulous head start from his Army Days during WWII!

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Na he was well past retirement age by WW2.

[@sondrajean955]

Goering was the art plunderer.

[@davepowell7168]

Provided urban play area in Plymouth ,(blitzkrieg bombsites)made him a likeable warcrimimal with the youth

[@user-ro2bh2xh6o]

All of Europe was

[@benediktmorak4409]

but he was COLLECTING.Not selling. And the few millions he made with what he sold, did not go into state coffers. But into his private bank account. To pay for his opulent lifestyle. To help finance Hitlers war machine? There the big companies, German and international, that is also American, did their part.

[@alamore5084]

He also committed awful crimes against fashion😂

[@krsmedley]

What an amazing story! Best random click in a long time. Thank you!

[@lorenzbroll0101]

Doubt it myself. Just don’t think anyone would panic tip gold into a lake without careful marking of location and means to reclaim the loot. Nice wishful thinking, though.

[@ronalddesiderio7625]

They shd have melted the gold bars down and given every WWII and the Families of fallen vets a Gold Medal 🥇 for saving the world 🌍

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

What do you think they'd make of the world they fought for today?

[@ronalddesiderio7625]

I can’t speak for other people. However in my own humble opinion I believe they would wonder why they fought that war. And that there nothing short of saving the world 🌎 is not understood by the present generation. Just the disrespect alone. Thats the best I can respond without being a crazy no holds barred Italian 😂

[@darrenlesueur4785]

the idea that Germany could havr taken over the world is so dumb

[@DianInHerOrb]

@@darrenlesueur4785 Sounds like you’re an expert on dumb

[@jonathantrew8236]

They'd be ashamed

[@variable7833]

I always have wondered this to myself. Thanks for the video to explain

[@joshuaseib7514]

My deal with the whole lake thing is simply why? It seems so impractical. Especially at that time, how did they ever expect to recover it? Also Many of the major companies gave him what amounted to hundreds of millions to do with as he pleased partially because they were so enthralled with him and probably more so bc he made it worth their while in other ways. I’m not saying that funded the war or anything it’s just crazy they gave him basically an unlimited credit line. So Switzerland was basically the worlds biggest money launderer?

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Is,is!

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Is,Is

[@user-rp6pi5iv5x]

who would have thought it

[@russcooke5671]

They still are.

[@hughtierney9109]

there's only about ten minutes of genuine material in this strung out offering!

[@realitycheckreally8412]

The printing press...

[@samuelpankonien4084]

If I was in ww2 I would have slipped a gold bar in my pocket 😂 but one of my grandfathers pocketed a German gun that has now been passed to me . I'll never sell it and it will be passed to my kids

[@chevyboy.0448]

His war trophy ? Or just took it

[@samuelpankonien4084]

@@chevyboy.0448 from his stories after a battle they would move through where the dead was and it was laying next to someone and he grabbed it

[@jonathantrew8236]

Bidens com8ng for ALL your guns

[@alsosprachzarathustra5505]

You have no idea how that worked: It wasn't gold, it was the MEFO bills. There is not enough gold to fund such a huge project.

[@donholmes3267]

This is a question i have wondered about for a long time !

[@bigbossimmotal]

Google Mefo bills, a simple article will tell you more than this entire video. The premise that gold stolen from countries that were invaded to build weapons to invade countries is just idiotic. The German rearmament happened (and was financed) BEFORE they started invading everybody. The same is true of Gold stolen from the Jews, that didn't happen until they started rounding up the Jews. And all this talk about the gold hidden at the END of the war wasn't used for rearmament either!

[@Hereford1642]

Me too (the financing of Germany before and during the war). But this is not the answer. The stolen 36 billion dollars of Gold would not cover the budget of a modern cut down army like the UK for a year, let alone 5. One day perhaps I will find something that attempts to answer the questions seriously.

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

The Danish government started shipping the gold reserves to the US in December 1939, so when they occupied the country on April 9th, there was no gold to be found 😆 The Norweigians kindly helped the Danes with the transport. Alas, they didn't send their own with it 😭

[@rhondaadams]

I’m sorry, what now? Did he just say that the people who figured out how to burn millions of people couldn’t figure out how to burn millions of pound notes? He literally said “burning millions of pounds wasn’t easy” about the NAZIS!!!! Who tf is writing this script?!

[@seanprice7645]

stop believing fairy tales.

[@leaderofthepack39]

Because they were under extreme time pressure. The allies armies were quickly closing in

[@alexandermelbaus2351]

The video is presenting a stark contrast to reality; Germany built their economy on work and production. Gold had nothing to do with it.

[@michaeldunham3385]

​@@seanprice7645 what fairytale?

[@Theiliteritesbian]

@@alexandermelbaus2351 wow, you somehow missed the entire point of this video. Its an hour long, and you couldn't figure it out?! Its about their economy from 1942-1945. The narrator goes over the whole damn story. I can't imagine how frustrating normal life must get for you.

[@edwardh1591]

Neat documentary!😊

[@Theiliteritesbian]

This was a good one!

[@flfar3445]

I want that bank note so bad in my collection 😢

[@Kiltoonie]

I have some old German banknotes with a face value of Five Million Marks - all worthless paper, of course.

[@debbiestyer453]

Thank you ..very interesting story.

[@dannywlm63]

Wonderful just how much was taken

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

My great grandfather was a 49er. And in 1849 is was tough traveling to California from back East.

[@premierhoner614]

Looking at that little town, I can't help thinking of the song "Heaven is a place on earth" 😂😂. So, so beautiful ❤❤

[@sarbaazchabahar]

Why are there soooo many gambling ads on youtube??? Must be so greedy to put those ads on its platform. 👎👎👎

[@bartle6168]

Go Premium, no adverts, it's well worth it.

[@petarmartic4526]

Hold on.. no mention of Greek or Yugoslavian gold..

[@ronalddesiderio7625]

When you own the printing press where do you think AH got his coun 😂

[@charleshotchkiss1813]

Entertaining.

[@ohasis8331]

"When they brought the box to the surface, no one was sure what was inside" - duhhh, open it.

[@markmathisen3908]

Wouldn't the heaviest boxes most likely have contained the heavy printing plates for the forgeries? They even state earlier that many plates were created and engraved for them to produce all the forged notes. 🤨🤔

[@me5atworld]

Think the gold would be shared with the soldiers who found it?. The smart ones would just bail out and buy freedom

[@AltCtrlSpud]

Anyone else missing Terry Davis a little extra today?

[@richardstever3242]

48:50 - Goldfinger... ha, ha, ha! I love this story.

[@busterbiloxi3833]

The heavy boxes contained valuable lead bars. Mystery solved!

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

the truth is there are still vast quantities of it missing. we need to remember that the values here are from the time,

[@virgilpalmer2427]

He took the local business men into his office under gun point and told him your companies are now ours ... It was easily done because they had monopolies... Which were outlawed in America after 1946.... But, over the years our government has turned back that bill and now companies are all monopolized.

[@a.nelprober-rl5cf]

So many flat earthers in these comments…guaranteed.

[@user-rp6pi5iv5x]

Yip. The surface of water is always level. The wet ball is covered 70% by water??? Must be flat

[@TheBillaro]

you can't convince me that it's easier to ship boxes of paper to a lake in the south, cart it buy horse and sink it than to burn them on a huge bonfire. no way.

[@WizardMgtow]

I wonder how many documentaries have been made about this man, this world has an unhealthy obsession with this man.

[@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus]

The world doesn't have an obsession, just the West, because it's ruled by a small group of people that need to keep up the lie to brainwash white people.

[@Gorre022]

It’s not an obsession, just morbid curiosity

[@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus]

@@Gorre022 because deep down they know its all lies.

[@Michelles222]

Never, ever forget what he did. The evil atrocities he did is unbelievably sick! We can not let it happen again!

[@ExtraEcclesiamNullaSalus]

@@Michelles222 The winners of wars write the history books, so of course they will make up all sorts of atrocity stories, so you won't side with the Germans but the people who hated the Germans.

[@ronalddesiderio7625]

They been look 👀 ing for that Gold in the lake since 45. If anyone found anything you think 🤔 there going to broadcast it🙄

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Easy to condemn the Swiss for trading with the evil regime in Germany, but at the end of the war the Allies were not averse to some shady dealings themselves ~ Tom Bower's books, "Blind Eye to Murder" [post-war cover-up of widespread, generalised atrocities in Europe, done mostly by Nazis] and another, "Paperclip Conspiracy", examined selection of those guilty of war crimes but not prosecuted, being deemed useful to the USA.

[@obfuscateidentity2329]

Wait you said stolen gold was taken to Switzerland to use to buy foreign currency. When you say it was hidden ,buried in Germany and Austria. Which is it?

[@MrWhiskers65]

Let me tell you from experience that paper is extremely heavy! Far heavier than one would ever expect.

[@user-dd2lp7xg7j]

This is very true. A client made me count out by hand 10 grand in twenties for her. Well, she couldn't even hold it, It was crazy heavy.

[@user-kw5qv6zl5e]

You can correctly label this program...The Origins of modern day economics....

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It is 2nd time I saw this wonderful historical coverage video about Nazism European plundered gold. 🙏(War stories) channel is always introduces historical valuable documents

[@jamesforresternewone4423]

Hi I'm Forrest from Australia

[@mikeshoemaker1909]

If it was gold she would be in that lake floating dead

[@valcomllc7840]

How many times are they going to regurgitate this story?

[@harryharrison4876]

Thought it would have been affiliate marketing!

[@1futur334]

Rothschild funds Harriman who funds Thyssen. Harriman also funds USSR & US

[@castleofall867]

Also, Rothschild got his "Start" forging rare coins.

[@MarkFarrington-hb2ne]

Switzerland, where else

[@user-qg2og7ds4f]

city of london where else..canary wharf

[@MarkFarrington-hb2ne]

Gold is in Switzerland

[@elyjane8316]

My uncle Willie got a share.

[@user-qg2og7ds4f]

harry dexter white weiss ...silvermaster spy ring...heinzz kissinger.. trotskyites from the frankfurt school in 1000 dollar armani suits goodluck usa.

[@user-dd2lp7xg7j]

I thought he declared a state of emergency that permitted him to invade the financial coffers and remove all obstacles of the Government Process where he could declare War without any objectives or boundaries and fleece of assets every country he invaded.

[@stevek343]

One hundred meters deep, that's over 300 feet deep water. A scuba diver can't go beyond 130 feet, something is fishy here 🤔

[@alamore5084]

Goering was also guilty of the most awful crimes against fashion.

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Okay all this gold was plundered just before and during the war after he had re-militarized-rebuilt the country, question where did he get the money for that (direct foreign investment knowingly paid for his war machine).

[@castleanthrax1833]

I don't need to watch this video to know how AH funded his 3rd Reich... but I'll watch it anyway.

[@mattematsson554]

Where did AH get the cash?

[@castleanthrax1833]

@mattematsson554 He stole the gold reserves from every country he invaded and looted anything else of value.

[@castleanthrax1833]

@@mattematsson554 He stole the gold reserves of the countries he invaded and looted anything else of value.

[@castleanthrax1833]

He stole it.

[@Detroitwithlove]

There is no way they let her live after asking so many questions they would of killed her

[@DJPhantomRage]

Sounds like the USA print, print, print.

[@jeffdumpster1470]

@10:34 hold a box that size full of gold 🤣I call BS

[@prestonhanson501]

And the GI buried lots of that gold for themselves

[@AndreiBogorodski]

Im 100% sure that pretty much all the gold in the lake was taken by the murikans as soon as they were there, they love gold, and they love oil

[@sbautomotiveshenanigans3974]

At the beginning you said there was no way down to the lake then we get told the nazis used it for testing weapons??? So there was a way to the lake

[@wolfmauler]

Royalties from a bestseller! 😉✋🏻

[@bernardkroeger4045]

These notes are not counterfeit, but rather copies. The Jews worked out the sequencing of the serial numbers used by the Royal mint, so these are a copy, duplicate of the original. So here are two(2) notes with the same serial number. Also fun fact. The 1948 war of independence waged by the fledgling state of Israel was in part finance with this 'copy' script. The English should not have betrayed Israel.😉

[@callumnineninenine6886]

anyone fancy taking a trip to Austria?

[@matthewarsenault463]

Germany steals gold to get foreign currency I understand that part but with that foreign currency who were they buying supplies from they were cut off from the international market so what was the foreign currency actually used for for example the British had used gold to buy supplies from the US

[@lorenzbroll0101]

Yes essentially it is worthless like the plundered works of art.

[@Wustenfuchs109]

They were not cut from the start and definitely not from everyone. Up until mid-1941 they still had most of the world to trade with. And even after the inclusion of USA into the war, there were still countries that were neutral that Germany could trade with and use foreign currency as a more stable/secure option.

[@amodpataskar5673]

The currency would help with espionage operations in UK and it's allied countries

[@brandonhallam51]

Genius move... take double the necessary containers... dig and bury some with the gold inside close by where some dont see... then let everyone see you throwing cases into the lake... its obvious you just threw all the gold in the lake right?

[@mattematsson554]

Prescott Bush, IG Farben and Switzerland, I've heard.

[@zillsburyy1]

47:19 gold at last!!!!!! or was it

[@Tiger_III]

underrated comment

[@jeffdumpster1470]

I've never held gold bars like that but I have held large bars of tungsten which is the same weight per volume. That was faked.

[@justinmanser7525]

32:00 Perfectly forged bank notes. Erm, don't ypu mean notes printed by a central bank?

[@ShaneMartin-eb7ng]

I love these ww2 stories

[@CornPop2]

no you don't

[@castleanthrax1833]

​@@CornPop2👈This guy lies.

[@ShaneMartin-eb7ng]

@@CornPop2 yeah I do

[@bronsonschnitzel7493]

I love these ww2 stories

[@christianmichael5519]

Word!

[@Ometecuhtli]

So remember, if you want to conquer the world (and fail at it) keep one match handy so you don't have to travel hundred of kilometers to hide the evidence.

[@bluecollarnobody4217]

OK let’s jam in the story obviously if the public knew that the gold was there, the Americans knew about it before anybody else. Do you honestly think the American government will leave all that gold bottom of the lake I think not.

[@user-mi6zq6jh8c]

maybe someone came back before 1958 and took the gold.

[@unnamedchannel1237]

Loud music and sound effects 🙄

[@earlshaner4441]

I would love to get some coins from 1934 Germany for my collection

[@Karl-nv5ok]

The coins started to have Swastika in 1935.Those from 1934 don't.In case you wonder.

[@OublietteTight]

Art measured by the ton? Brain warp 😮

[@ianking-jv4hg]

How ? With Lies ! meanwhile what was Neutral Switzerland doing ?

[@tierneylogan5943]

Bank of International Settlements, mostly.

[@anagramconfirmed1717]

Too much music.

[@Friendsly]

Is Fritz Thyssen not the logical subject of video titled like this?

[@williamlouie569]

So how long took Germany to payback all debts after the war?

[@wapi8411]

they only ended up paying half of it at the end of the day, it was forgiven by the US in order to allow German industry to recover quicker.

[@MrRikki52b]

I wonder how many GI's helped themselves to some of the loot🤫

[@propespinternacional9779]

This doesn’t make sense. The lady had to take the boxes to the lake by horse and cart because there was no way to get through with a truck. So htf did the Germans get submarines and armaments to the lake and test them there?

[@user-bp3po8uj4o]

So was the gold returned to the various countries

[@samchs222]

Maybe i could go treasure hunting there

[@ObsessedCollector]

Goldfinger 🤣

[@energi_inc.3022]

Watching rhis doc a@ 16 min the person holdning that gold bar was a Russian women thank you

[@jimclip2012]

How did faking the gold bars hurt the local policeman? Was it because the news would attract obnoxious treasure hunters who the cop would have to chase off or just deal with?

[@roydavis5613]

Hitlers hair parting is on the wrong side in thumbnail !!!!

[@csomanathchakrapani7521]

Allies were no better.All their big shots became rich,for example Supreme command of the Allied forces.An altercation between Allied Army officers reslted in the death of a General(not sure if it was Patton).

[@amodpataskar5673]

The caption is inappropriate even with the gold and fake currencies Germany would not have access to the oil and other resources required to fund the war