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Author:  Damien Whitworth  

Publisher/Date:  The Times (UK), October 16, 1999  

Title:  Nazi gold looted by US generals  

Original location: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/timfgnusa01005.html?999

TOWARDS the end of the Second World War, Adolf Eichmann ordered that a train leave Budapest for Germany crammed with gold, silver, paintings and furs seized from the 600,000 Hungarian Jews he had exterminated. Months later, American troops found the train hidden in a tunnel. Then, according to a new investigation by a presidential commission, they proceeded to help themselves.

According to the report drawn up by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, US officials allowed the Nazi loot to be pilfered by American generals, sold to soldiers at auction and turned over to Austria, instead of trying to return it to the survivors of the holocaust.

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