Nazi building

Nazi Germany, Deutsche, Reichsbank building, Gold Plated bar Edition Technical Specs Presentation Country:   Metal Purity:    Gold Plated, Gilded Box:   Year of Issue:   Weight:   1 oz CoA:   Face Value:   Dimensions:   44x 28¿mm     Quality:       Mintage:     New bar with capsule Gold plated gift bar with images of Iron Cross and Reichsbank building in Berlin. Reichsbank was founded in 1876 as a central bank of German Empire, then later Weimar Republic and at last the Third Reich. Reichsbank was abolished after the World War II. Its functions were assumed by newly founded banks of Eastern Germany and Western Germany.The building of Reichsbank depicted on the bar was not the only one; in the age of the Third Reich the Reichsbank was complemented by a larger building in another place. The gold reserves of the Reichsbank in Nazi period were raised mainly by the theft of the property of invaded countries and prisoners of concentration camps. Great amount of wedding rings and golden teeth of victims of fascist regime were melted down as bullion. Golden teeth of prisoners were found in the vaults of the Reichsbank in 1945 after the WWII ended.The bar approximate dimensions are 44x28 mm. It¿s valuable as a collection item. ____________________________________________________  Feel free to e-mail me with any questions.

Albert Speer is the great Enigma of Nazi Germany. Before he was thirty he had become Hitler's architect. Soon he was building the new Reich's Chancellory and had transformed the Nuremberg rallies with his cathedrals of light' and gift for stage management. In 1942 Hitler appointed him his Armaments Minister and Speer quadrupled German arms production, keeping the German Army in the field and prolonging the war. Joachim Fest examines all the phases of Speer's life and work. Precisely because of Speer's contradictions, Fest sees him as representative of the mood and susceptibilities of the German people of the time. In this brilliant and persuasive book Fest argues that Albert Speer's life helps to explain how Germany broke with its traditions in 1933 and descended so far into crime and barbarism. This book is a crowning achievement for the writer who pioneered a new school of biographical writing in the 1960s with his FACE OF THE THIRD REICH and his masterly Hitler biography, which has become a classic.