The
Nazis melted gold dental fillings from concentration camp victims and
found the best price for it was in neutral Turkey.
At the same time, Turkey kept selling Germany the chromium ore it needed to build weapons and continue the war.
But in
harkening back to World War II in an effort to justify giving Turkey
a green light to crush the Kurds, President Donald Trump ignored such
damning truths.
He
instead said of the Kurds, “They didn't help us with Normandy.”
Never
mind that present day Kurds have suffered thousands of casualties as
our most effective allies against ISIS.
Never
mind that the Kurds of 1944 were scattered across a half dozen
countries in the Middle East and were in no position to help even
themselves.
And
never mind that Turkey started out World War II pledged to support
the Allies only to suddenly switch when it looked like the Nazis
would win.
“Turkey
began World War II bound to Britain and France by the military
alliance of October 1939, moved to non-belligerency in June 1940
after the fall of France, and adopted a policy of ‘active
neutrality’ in the spring of 1941 after German occupation of the
Balkans and the conclusion of a German-Turkish Treaty of Friendship
in June 1941,” notes a 1998 report on Holocaust restitution by the
House Committee on Banking and Financial Services.
The
report cites a November 1943 assessment by German Munitions Minister
Albert Speer “that much of Germany's manufacture of armaments would
come to a halt within 10 months if Turkey's chromite exports to
Germany were ended.”
In the
meantime, the Germans sold ingots of absolute evil in Turkey.
“Two
German banks with branches in Turkey, the Deutsche Bank and the
Dresdner Bank, took advantage of the high prices on the Turkish free
gold market to sell looted gold provided by the Reichsbank in return
for foreign currency, particularly Swiss francs,” the report says.
“Some of the gold provided by the Reichsbank came from the infamous
‘Melmer account’ in which the SS deposited the gold jewelry,
coins, bars, and dental fillings robbed from its victims at the
killing centers and concentration camps.”
The
Reichsbank was the central financial institution of Germany. Deutsche
Bank would go on to become the lone financial institution in the
1990’s willing to risk making huge loans to Donald Trump.
Even as
he condemns the Kurds for failing to do what they could not possibly
have done at Normandy without a nation-state of their own, Trump says
nothing about Deutsche Bank’s Nazi past or about Turkey’s
continued sales of chromium ore to Germany until April 1944. Turkey
finally returned to our side in August 1944—two months after
Normandy—when it appeared that the Nazis were going to lose after
all.
U.S.
forces that fought their way from Normandy into Germany recovered
ledgers showing that Deutsche Bank had sold at least 998 kilograms of
what the congressional report terms “gold looted from individual
victims of Nazi persecution.”
The
report adds, “Other German gold acquired by Turkey during and after
the War included coins and ingots from the account of German Foreign
Minister Joachim Ribbentrop at the Reichsbank, which had been stocked
with gold looted from occupied Europe.”
At
war’s end, Turkey had done exactly nothing to assist the Allies
besides no longer selling chromium to the Nazis. Turkey nonetheless
argued that since it had been at war with Germany, it should not be
expected to turn over whatever Nazi wealth it retained.
“Turkey,
an 11th hour ally, returned no looted gold… and turned over no
money,” the report notes.
Turkey
also kept the money it made selling the Nazis chromium ore that kept
the war going. The report says Turkey only stopped after President
Franklin Roosevelt threatened Turkey with “economic war.”
Our
current president made a similar threat this week, when he tweeted,
“As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey
does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to
be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of
Turkey.”
The
major difference is that this threat seems to be having no effect.
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