Chapter 1046 – Nazi Wealth

“Hm? Brother Huangfu, you recognize this person? It seems like you’re really sociable in America!”

Zhuang Rui also froze for a moment, he wanted Huangfu Yun to find a friend to inquire about it, but he didn’t think that this buddy knew himself, it seems that he used to mix really well in the United States, you have to know that the people that the fourth wife can call her friends, it is estimated that their wealth should be more than tens of billions of dollars.

Huangfu Yun laughed bitterly and said, “Cough, I do know him, but I guess he doesn’t recognize me, you are really looking for the right person, in the United States, there are only a very few people, who know the real identity of Bonadette.”

Sure enough, just as Zhuang Rui had guessed, this person called Bonadette was really not an ordinary person.

After the Second World War, in the United States California rose a new large consortium, called californiagroup which includes the Bank of America Group, San Francisco Group and Los Angeles Group.

The economic strength of this group during the second world war, with the rapid development of the arms industry in California and get a sharp increase, especially the growth rate of financial capital is particularly amazing, the formation of the bank of america as the financial center of the consortium.

Just twenty years later, only in 1974, this consortium has assets of 167.1 billion U.S. dollars, in the United States in the top ten consortia in the third place, in the United States of America’s political and economic life plays a major role in the southern consortium, it and the emerging arms industry group formed a force, and the northeastern consortium of the old to compete with the force.

Now from the seventies of the last century and the past thirty years, the influence of this consortium, has long been integrated into the United States and even every corner of the world, the actual assets can not be estimated, and Bonadette, is the consortium’s mastermind behind the scenes, from the end of the eighties of the last century, has been firmly holding the lifeblood of this consortium, in the United States is very large influence.

To know, the United States of America’s social form, to the good to say is a high degree of freedom, to say the bad, the United States of America, all political and diplomatic, are held in the hands of those consortiums, not to mention, that is, the presidential election campaign funds needed, but also these consortiums donations, imagine the president on the throne, how can not be influenced by it?

So Bonadette such a person, is the United States of America’s real upper class people, its influence in some specific circles, that is, the President of the United States can not be compared with it, they can use the social resources, to be far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, as for those who what the American mafia or other associations of the underworld, in the front of these people, simply like a child is generally unbeatable.

“Brother Huangfu, how did you recognize him?”

Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but feel a little strange after listening to Huangfu Yun’s introduction, like this real tycoon, are generally very low profile, as Huangfu Yun said, in the United States basically very few people know Bonadette, to say that the fourth Mrs. can be able to get acquainted with this person that’s still true, but with Huangfu Yun’s identity, it is very difficult to reach into that circle.

Huangfu Yun smiled at his words and said, “Where I used to work, some business used to happen with him.”

It turned out that this person called Bonadette came from a military family, and from the time of the musket era in the 19th century, someone in his family had held a high position in the U.S. government and was involved in the mining of the gold mines in California, accumulating a rich amount of raw capital.

The Bonadette family was involved in World War I and World War II throughout, and when the U.S. Army entered Berlin that year, the leading member of the Bonadette family, Bonadette’s father, was one of the generals, and Huangfu Yun’s so-called business stemmed from one of the things that happened at that time.

Back then, although the American army had to enter Berlin later than the Soviet Red Army in order to minimize its own casualties, the wealth that the Nazis had plundered from all over the world still made the Americans a fortune, and according to the dictation of an American GI from back then, one could learn just how huge that wealth was.

“We felt like we had entered a heavenly treasure trove, the sight of which is hard to describe, unfolding in front of us in an illuminated, 23-meter-wide, 45-meter-long chamber containing more than 7,000 marked bags, knee-high, stacked in 20 rows, with each row spaced about 1 meter apart. On the other side of the room were bundles of cash money, each with the word ‘Melmer’ printed on the label, and the boxes clearly belonged to the pseudonymous accounts of the SS, the first clue to the extent and complexity of the wealth looted by the Nazis in Europe.

“We opened the bags and listed the treasures: 8,198 gold ingots, 55 boxes of gold bricks (2 bars per box, each weighing 10 kilograms), hundreds of bags of gold vessels and articles, over 1,300 bags of gold marks, gold francs and gold pounds, 711 bags of $20 gold coins, hundreds of bags of gold and silver coins from 15 other countries, hundreds of bags of foreign exchange bills, 9 bags of rare ancient gold coins, 2,380 bags and 1,300 boxes of Deutsche Mark cash. with a face value of $2.76 billion, 20 silver ingots weighing 200 kilograms each, 40 bags of silver bullion, 63 boxes of another 55 bags of silver plates, 1 bag of platinum (containing 6 platinum ingots), and 110 bags of diamonds and jewels looted from different countries.

“In other tunnels, we also found a large number of valuable works of art from museums in various European countries, as well as looted from private individuals: paintings, prints, pencil drawings, engravings, antique clocks and watches, philatelic albums, and these treasures also revealed Nazi cruelty, and among the gold items included several bags of gold teeth pulled from the mouths of prisoners in the extermination camps.”

The discovery of this treasure, known to later generations as the Merckx Treasure, was planned by the Nazis well in advance to hide the wealth they had looted during the war by shipping it to other countries.

At the beginning of 1946, the monetary gold (gold bricks, bars and coins) in the Merckx Treasure was handed over to the Allied War Reparations Commission, and finally to the American, British and French Gold Restitution Commissions, who were responsible for returning it to the central banks of the victimized countries as soon as possible.

In addition to this treasure, another treasure of similar size was the gold looted by the Ustasha regime in Croatia, but this gold was not ultimately recovered.

There are indications that they were most likely secretly shipped out of Europe by the Vatican and the CIA, and how much of this treasure actually remained in the Vatican remains an unsolved mystery, with several smaller Nazi treasure caches found in the Austrian Alps.

In addition to the Merckx treasure, the rest of those treasures, to the end actually become unaccounted for, many treasures for no reason disappeared in people’s eyes, in addition to some of the people who have the heart, many people with the passage of time, and forget the existence of these treasures.

By the beginning of 2003, some European countries that were victims of World War II suddenly raised the issue of Nazi treasures, and attracted the attention of the relevant organizations, under the cooperation of many countries, a lot of dusty history, was gradually unveiled mysterious veil.

There are many evidences pointing out that at that time, not only a part of the Merckx treasure was hidden by Bonadette’s father, that is, some of the small Nazi treasures unearthed at the back of the excavation were also secretly transported out of Europe by Bonadette’s father, of course, he did not give these things to the state.

The revelation of this incident, in the United States and European countries set off a furor, several countries devastated by the Second World War, united to demand that the current Bonadette return the gold, gold bars and gold coins and other treasures hidden privately at the time, and sent a joint team of lawyers.

In the lawyers’ world, there is a popular saying: “law is a rich man’s game” which has been confirmed in the United States, in addition to the billionaire football star who was acquitted of killing his wife, Mr. Bonadette also spent a lot of money to hire hundreds of lawyers, and the several small countries lawyers’ alliance was routed.

The reason why Huangfu Yun knew about this matter is because he was a member of those hundreds of lawyers at that time, and only through this case did he know about Mr. Bonadette, of course, this case did not have a public trial, and until after the verdict was pronounced, the number of people who knew about Mr. Bonadette was still very small.

After Zhuang Rui listened to this bizarre story, his heart was a little curious, and he opened his mouth to ask: “Brother Huangfu, you’ve been in contact with that case, how much treasure do you estimate that old Bonadette had smuggled out of Germany at that time?”

Huangfu Yun mused, seemed to be thinking about that case, after a while before saying, “According to the figures put forward by those claimants, at that time the wealth was above hundreds of billions of dollars, if put into the present, at least there are also trillions of dollars, it is simply incalculable.”

Not to mention the wealth represented by hundreds of billions of dollars in the 1940s and 1950s, take the Chinese millionaires of the 1980s as an analogy, the millionaires of that time, compared to those ranked in the current Forbes rich list of the top few people are not inferior, imagine how much of this wealth.

“Shit, dare to say that this consortium is with half of Europeans wealth accumulated, no wonder the development is so fast!”

Zhuang Rui now sort of understand over, why such a new force, in just a few decades, and the United States those old forces can compete, with those Nazi gold as capital, I’m afraid that just want to develop slower are difficult.

After Huangfu Yun finished explaining to Zhuang Rui, he asked somewhat strangely, “By the way, Zhuang Rui, you haven’t told me yet, how did you get this person’s business card? I’ll tell you, this person don’t look famous, but when it comes to real power, Bill Gates is far worse than him.”

Huangfu Yun’s meaning Zhuang Rui understands, in this world, the most famous person, may not see is the richest person, Bill Gates fame is big, but a lot of the old strength of the heritage, is far from these nearly two or three decades before the rise of the financial nouveau riche can be compared.