The Bank of England's Secret Role in Starting WWII | The Hidden History

Описание: The Bank of England's portrait they had to remove from the wall. The gold transfer they hid for 75 years. The friendship with Hitler's banker that shaped the fate of Europe.

In 2013, the Bank of England quietly released archives that had been sealed for decades. What they revealed was devastating: Britain's most powerful financial institution had knowingly transferred Czechoslovakia's stolen gold reserves to Nazi Germany — just months before World War Two began.

But that was only part of the story.

This documentary traces the hidden financial architecture behind the rise of the Third Reich — from the Dawes Plan loans of the 1920s, to the secret Mefo bills rearmament scheme, to the Bank for International Settlements that laundered looted gold throughout the entire war. At the center of it all: a 24-year Bank of England Governor named Montagu Norman and his intimate friendship with Hitler's finance minister, Hjalmar Schacht.

This is the story of how bankers helped start a world war.

📌 Topics covered:

Montagu Norman & Hjalmar Schacht's relationship
The Dawes Plan & Wall Street loans to Germany
Creation of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
The Anglo-German Fellowship
The Czech gold scandal of 1939
Mefo bills and secret rearmament financing
BIS wartime operations and looted Nazi gold
Thomas McKittrick — "Hitler's American Banker"
Why none of them were ever punished
📚 Sources include: Bank of England archives (released 2013), Hansard UK Parliamentary records, U.S. Morgenthau Diaries, Liaquat Ahamed's "Lords of Finance," Adam LeBor's "Tower of Basel," CNN investigation (2013), and academic research by David Blaazer and Albrecht Ritschl.

⚠️ Where claims are disputed by historians, this is noted in the video.

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