books.google.ca - This report addresses a vital but relatively neglected dimension of the history of WW II & its aftermath. It documents one of the greatest thefts by a government in history: the confiscation by Nazi Germany of an estimated $580 million of central bank gold -- around $5.6 billion in today's values --...http://books.google.ca/books/about/U_S_and_Allied_Efforts_to_Recover_and_Re.html?id=1dRKMeIM6EcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareU. S. and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen Or Hidden by Germany During World War II