Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xv, 381 p. Illustrations. Sources. Bibliography. Index. Name of previous owner present. Thomas Michael Bower (born 28 September 1946) is a British writer, noted for his investigative journalism and for his unauthorized biographies, often of business tycoons and newspaper proprietors. His books include unauthorized biographies of Tiny Rowland, Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Geoffrey Robinson, Gordon Brown and Richard Branson. Nazi Gold is an expose that reveals how Switzerland's most senior government officials and financial institutions systematically conspired to keep billions in gold and other valuables deposited by Jews in Swiss banks or stolen by the Nazis from their rightful heirs. A history of the bureaucratic finagling that led to the effectual confiscation of millions of dollars placed in Swiss banks by Jews attempting to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.