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Borkin, Joseph and Charles Welsh. “Germany’s Master Plan,” review by J. Hurstfield, Economic History Review, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1944), 206–207.
Boughton, James M. “Harry Dexter White and the International Monetary Fund,” Finance and Development magazine, September 1998.
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Cecchetti, Stephen and Enisse Kharroubi. “Reassessing the Impact of Finance on Growth,” BIS Working Papers, 381, July 2012.
Clement, Piet. “The touchstone of German credit: Nazi Germany and the service of the Dawes and Young Loans,” Financial History Review, Vol. 11, 1, April 2004.
———. “The term ‘macroprudential’: origins and evolution,” Bank for International Settlements, BIS Quarterly Review, March 2010.
Eichengreen, Barry, and Jorge Braga de Macedo. “The European Payments Union: History and implications for the evolution of the international financial architecture,” OECD Development Center, Paris, March 2001.
Epstein, Edward Jay. “Ruling the world of money,” Harper’s, November 1983.
Friedman, Milton. “The Island of Stone Money,” Working Papers in Economics E-91-3, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, February 1991.
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Goodhart, Charles. “The Changing Role of Central Banks,” BIS Working Paper 326, November 2010.
Hilsenrath, Jon, and Brian Blackstone. “Inside the Risky Bets of Central Banks”, Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2012.
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Lamfalussy, Alexandre. “Central banks, Governments and the European Monetary Unification Process,” BIS Working Paper 201. February 2006.
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Martín-Aceña, Pablo, Elena Martínez Ruiz, Maria. A. Pons, “War and Economics: Spanish Civil War Finances Revisited,” Working papers on Economic History, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, WP-04-10, December 2010.
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Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum and Ernst and Young. “Challenges for Central Banks, Wider Powers, Greater Restraints.” November 2012.
Pol, Heinz. “IG Farben’s Peace Offer,” Protestant Magazine, June–July 1943, 41.
Pollard, Patricia. “A Look Inside Two Central Banks: The European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, January/February 2003.
Sibert, Anne. “Accountability and the ECB,” European Parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies, Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policies, Economic and Monetary Affairs, September 2009, available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/200909/20090924ATT61145/20090924ATT61145EN.pdf.
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———. “Following the Money: An Exploration of the Relationship between American Finance and Nazi Germany,” December 2009, available at http://jasonweixelbaum.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/following-the-money-an-explorationof-the-relationship-between-american-finance-and-nazi-germany.
ARCHIVED INTERVIEWS
Connelly, Albert Ray. Conducted in October 1990. Number 549, Jean Monnet Statesman of Interdepence Collection (EUI), available at http://www.eui.eu/HAEU/OralHistory/bin/CreaInt.asp?rc=INT549.
Harriman, Averell. Conducted in 1971. Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, available at http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/harriman.htm.
Hoffman, Paul. Conducted in October 1964. Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, available at http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/hoffmanp.htm.
Lamfalussy, Alexandre. Series of interviews conducted in March 2010, available at http://www.cvce.eu.
McKittrick, Thomas. Conducted in July 1964. John Foster Dulles Oral History Collection, number 172 (SGMML).
Zijlstra, Jelle. Conducted in May 1989. Number 534, Jean Monnet Statesman of Interdepence Collection (EUI), available at http://www.eui.eu/HAEU/OralHistory/bin/CreaInt.asp?rc=INT534.
SELECTED WEBSITES
Bank for International Settlements, http://www.bis.org
Centre for European Studies, http://www.cvce.eu
Economics resource, http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com
Economics and finance resource, http://www.econlib.org
The Economist magazine, http://www.economist.com
European University Institute, http://www.eui.eu
Financial Times, http://www.ft.com
Investopedia finance resource, http://www.investopedia.com
New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com
Holocaust research resource, http://www.nizkor.org
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, http://www.trumanlibrary.org
IG Farben historical resources, http://www.wollheim-memorial.de
US Department of State, Office of the Historian, http://www.history.state.gov
Index
A
Abacha, Sani, 259
Abs, Hermann, 153–154, 184, 187–188, 192–193, 197
Adenauer, Konrad, 159
Agreement for Intra-European Payments and Compensation, 166
The Alchemy Murder (Jacobssen), 52
Aldrich, Nelson, 137
Aldrich, Richard, 173
Aldrich, Winthrop, 137
Alien Property Custodian, 102, 118, 146
Alkali Export Association (Alkasso), 143
Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, 37
Allied Tripartite Commission, 127, 132–133
Ambros, Otto, 159
American Committee for a United Europe, 173
American-Nazi financial network, 99–102, 104–109
Anschluss, 47, 53
Arendt, Hannah, 183
Argentina, dispute over reserves of, 260–261
Arnold, Thurman, 101
Ashton-Gwatkin, Frank, 70–71
Asian debt crisis (1997), 238
Auboin, Roger, xviii, 61, 81, 86, 94, 116, 192
Auschwitz, 116, 144, 158, 162
See also IG Auschwitz
Australia, 198
Austrian National Bank, 53, 182
Autarky, 35, 84, 166
Axis powers, BIS gold transactions for, 86–87
B
Baer, Gunther, 212
Baker, Dean, 252
Baltic gold, management of by BIS, 79–80, 206
Banco Zaragozano, 57
Bank deutscher Länder, 151, 175, 219
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
adaptability of, xxi, 193
American presidents of, 109
amorality of, 52–54, 63–66
annual reports, 25, 52–53, 208, 236, 256–254
Argentine reserves, dispute over, 260–261
authorized activities of, 21–22
available information about, xvi–xvii, xvii–xviii
Baltic gold, management of, 79–80, 206
Basel Committee rules, 241
buy-back of shares, dispute over, 242–243
as Cold War information channel, 201–202
collapse of Soviet Union, role of in, 205
current status, 255–257
Czechoslovak gold affair, 59–63
ECSC, as transitional bank for, 174–175
effect of World War II on, 84–85
employees, 23–24
European Currency Unit (ECU), agent for, 210
European Monetary Cooperation Fund, agent for, 210
European Payments Union (EPU), agent for, 167
European unification, role in, 208–211, 258
Eurozone crisis, role in, xx–xxi
evacuation of headquarters in World War II, 80–81
existence, question of need
for, 262–263
founding of, xvii, 20–21
fund transfer procedure, 22–23
funding of Holocaust by, 258
future of, 270
globalization of, 228
gold, looted, 53, 78, 85, 132, 261–263
gold standard and, 42
gold transactions of, 67–68, 86–87, 114–115
governors’ monthly meeting, xii–xiii, 49–50, 256
Hague Convention, signing of, 20
headquarters, xix, 199–201
hostility toward, 89
insider trading by, 41
legal inviolability of, 14, 20, 42, 263, 265–268
liquidation of, motion for, 122–124
location, choice of, 13
Marshall Plan payments, as clearinghouse for, 146–147
Nazi Germany, relationship with, 33, 51, 78–79, 84–87, 114–115, 123, 125–127, 256
neutrality of, 78, 87
post–World War II survival of, 139–140, 147–148, 167, 175–176
privileges of, xiv, 81–82
problems caused by member financial policies, 245–246
purpose, xix–xxi, 5, 20, 42–43, 53–54
Reichsbank gold account in, 85
rescue packages, coordination of, 206–207
reserve currency rescue, coordination of, 193
as safe haven from creditors, 261–262
secrecy, tradition of, xv–xviii, 259
social responsibility, need for, 268–269
transnational economy, role of in, xxii–xxiii
transparency, need for, 267–268
United States, blockage of transactions by, 95, 111, 133
warnings about easy credit, 238–240
wartime intelligence, conduit for, 113, 116–117, 127–131
See also BIS committees
Bank of America, 169
Bank of England, 28, 29, 59–61, 67, 83, 110, 122, 189, 191, 245, 257
Bank of France, 28, 29, 61, 62, 65, 69, 85, 175
Bank of France (Vichy), 86–87
Bank of Greece’s missing gold, 23
Bank of Japan, 257
Bank of Portugal, 114
Bank of Russia, 206
Bank of Spain, 44, 56
Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart, 145
Bankers’ Almanac and Yearbook, 64
Bankers’ Magazine, on neutrality of BIS reports, 52
Bankhaus Herstatt, 207
Banks, war and, 29–30
