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The gold market deserves close study in determining the causes and path of global war. That was true in the First World War and also in the Second World War but in quite different ways. In this chapter, two key respects in which the gold market played into the inferno of the Second World War are examined—the Bank of England’s delivery of Czech gold to Nazi Germany in spring 1939 and Swiss gold transactions during the war.
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Brown, B., Simonnot, P. (2020). How Gold Financed Nazi Germany. In: Europe's Century of Crises Under Dollar Hegemony. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46653-4_6
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