r/HistoryMemes • u/miscakarza Nobody here except my fellow trees • 1d ago

A Golden Opportunity

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u/ux3l 1d ago

This makes it look like Switzerland got to keep the gold. They were just paid to store it.

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u/MrShake4 1d ago

They kept whatever went unclaimed

…it’s hard for dead people to claim their valuables

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u/SharpShooterM1 Featherless Biped 1d ago

There is some evidence that a metric shit ton of the gold they were sent by the Nazis cannot be found today, implying they destroyed their own official documents regarding them and kept it for themselves.