So it was in our country, when immediately after the revolution, money and values began to be pumped through Stockholm to the West. They were transported by couriers directly to the diplomatic mission of the Bolsheviks, and further, through the banker Oliah Aschberg’s Nia-Bank, the values dissolved completely. And after the final victory of the Bolsheviks, (oh wonderful miracle!), The same Olaf Aschberg ... became the first Soviet banker. In 1921, he headed the first commercial (!) Bank in the country of the Soviets - “Russian Commercial Bank”. You can read about it quite openly on the VTB website, because VTB is the “heir” of the bank where Comrade Olaf Aschberg worked. The questions “why the revolution was made” will be set aside - in order to do this ...
And these were only the first stages. Then there were concessions for the plundering of natural resources, which Stalin stopped immediately after the expulsion of Trotsky (1929 year).
A commentator of the resource nstarikov.ru Anton Kolomitsyn decided to take a closer look at the rise to the power of Adolf Hitler. And with the numbers in his hands, he now asks himself one question: to whom did the Führer pay debts?
“Some time ago I set out to find confirmation, even if indirect, of the material assistance provided by the United States and Britain to Adolf Hitler and his NSDAP party.
It is no longer a secret that before the war, Ford produced automobile engines in Germany. Moreover, the USA and Britain supplied the entire war to Germany with oil, which was processed at the enterprises of the Farben concern, which was controlled by the Anglo-American capitalists.
But I was interested in the earlier period, or rather, the period of Hitler's rise to power.
Since the chances of finding documents directly confirming that some “well-wishers” helped the Nazis and the Atlantic Ocean because of the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean, I decided to go a different way. The fact is that there is a good indicator, by looking at which, you can draw certain conclusions. This indicator is the value of the gold reserve.
Having started “digging” in this direction, I first came across a table - statistics of gold reserves by countries with a step in 5 years, on the World Gold Council website.
It follows from it that in 1930, the gold reserves of Germany were equal to 794., And in 1935 - only 56 (!) Tons. That is, in 5 years, 738 tons of gold "went away" from the German treasury ...
Already leads to certain reflections. But maybe - all this gold was transferred as reparation payments under the Versailles Peace Treaty?
More accurate statistics was required. And, having even searched the web, I found one interesting document scanned at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Missouri, USA). It is called "Banking and Monetary Statistics 1914 — 1941. ”
The chapter 14 (Section 14) is called “Gold” and consists of several tables with detailed statistics of gold reserves by country from 1913 to 1941. And that is especially valuable - the statistics in them are given even not by year, but by month. True, the figures are not in tons, but in millions of dollars, but it does not matter in principle.
Based on this information, we can draw certain conclusions.
The last spasmodic decrease in gold reserves, from 569.4 to 338.5 million dollars, falls on May-June 1931, shortly before the US President Hoover introduced a moratorium on reparation payments in Germany. The moratorium came into force in August, after the commission of experts recognized that Germany was temporarily unable to pay reparation obligations.
After that, during the end of 1931 and 1932, there was a more or less gradual decrease in gold reserves from 338.5 million dollars. in June 1931 to 175.9 million dollars. in March 1933.
But then there are interesting moments that are worth paying attention to.
As you know, Hitler actually came to power in March 1933, and the Reichstag fire helped in this. The fire occurred on February 27, and the next day, February 28, Hindenburg signed a decree “On the protection of the people and the state”, the appearance of which was an initiative of Hitler. The decree abolished constitutional freedoms, and the Communist Party of Germany was also banned, which was blamed for setting fire to parliament. And the KKE was the main competitor of the Nazis in the upcoming elections, scheduled for March 5.
Accordingly, eliminating a competitor, NSDAP wins the 5 elections in March 1933, and from that moment on, Hitler has unlimited power over Germany.
But back to gold. So, in March, 1933 Germany's gold reserves amounted to 175.9 million dollars, or 273,63 tons. Hitler comes to power, and in April the gold reserve is ... 97.8 million dollars, or 152 tons. That is, a “lump sum” payment was made in the amount of 78.1 million dollars, or 121 tons of gold.
What is interesting - exactly one year later, in March of 1934, another one-time payment was made, smaller, in the form of 38 million dollars, or 59 tons of gold.
What conclusions can be drawn from this?
Adolf Hitler, having come to power in March 1933 of the year, immediately transferred somewhere, as much as 121 a ton of gold worth 78 million dollars! A year later, he again made a “payment” in gold on 38 million dollars ...
Considering that in 1933, one gram of gold cost 0,66 dollars ($ 20,67 per ounce), and today one gram of gold costs 54 dollars ($ 1686 per ounce), you can multiply the then 78 million dollars by 82. We get ... 6 396 000 000 "current" dollars. Six billion three hundred ninety-six million!
The “payment” of March 1934 is already calculated at $ 35 per ounce - 1 867 200 000 dollars.
In total - 8 263 200 000 dollars for two times. Or 247 896 000 000 rubles at today's exchange rate. The amount, you see, even by today's standards is huge ...
Who and why the Fuhrer gave so much gold right after he came to power?
The question is not idle. There may be several answers to it.
Option one - it was the resumption of reparation payments. But in the official stories there is nothing anywhere about it, but it is written everywhere that Hitler who came to power in the year to stop paying reparations, and they were renewed under the London agreement 1933 of the year.
Option two - government loans secured by gold. But the loans given to Hitler are also not known.
Option three - Hitler paid the money to the United States and Britain forward in the supply of technology and raw materials for the development of the military industry and preparation for a future war with the USSR. But I do not think that then, in the 1933 year, the Fuhrer already had a clear plan for a future war with the Soviet Union. Most likely, he did not think about it then ...
The fourth option, the most likely - Hitler simply “paid his bills” to the forces that “invested” in him, generously spending on creating and bringing to power the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany.
Like a decade and a half earlier, the Bolsheviks "paid off" with their patrons from the United States and Britain, who financed their coming to power - the gold reserves of the Russian Empire (besides gold and precious stones expropriated from the bourgeoisie and seized from the Tsarist vaults) already then controlled by a group of Rothschilds ...
An interesting detail - after the revolution 1918 of the year in Germany, its gold reserves immediately decreased by more than two times. The local revolutionaries, apparently, also “paid the support for someone” ...
And when some historians try to assert that revolutions and changes in the state system occur “because of the people’s discontent with power” - this is a lie.
A good example is 1993 year. Dissatisfaction with the power was, and still what, with fair. But the sympathies of generous overseas "well-wishers" were on the other side of the barricades ...