Nothing is what it seems. Twentieth Century Britain - plucky Britain that stood up to Hitler - had weak and immoral government officials with many skeletons in their closets - and a record of betrayal open for anyone to see. Here is one example. There are others.
The British Bank for International Settlements actually financed Hitler’s war machine
These days you may feel confused when you hear about the West fighting Al Qaeda with one hand, while helping and arming Al Qaeda rebels in Syria and other places during Arab Spring insurrections.
But there is a long history of governments operating in secret ways that contradict their official policies.
Documents posted online reveal a shocking story: just six months before Britain went to war with Nazi Germany, the Bank of England willingly handed over £5.6 million worth of Czech gold to Hitler – gold that belonged to Czechoslovakia.
The official history of the bank, written in 1950 but posted online for the first time on Tuesday, reveals how Britain betrayed Czechoslovakia – not just with the infamous Munich Agreement of September 1938, which allowed the Nazis to annex the Czech Sudetenland, but also in London, where Montagu Norman, the eccentric but ruthless governor of the Bank of England agreed to surrender gold owned by the National Bank of Czechoslovakia.
Buried among the typewritten pages of the Bank of England’s history is a name of whom few have ever heard, a man for whom, like Montagu Norman, the primacy of international finance reigned over mere national considerations.
Thomas McKittrick, an American banker, was president of the BIS. When the United States entered the war in December 1941, McKittrick’s position, the history notes, “became difficult”. But McKittrick managed to keep the bank in business, thanks in part to his friend Allen Dulles, the US spymaster based in Berne. McKittrick was an asset of Dulles, known as Codename 644, and frequently passed him information that he had garnered from Emil Puhl, who was a frequent visitor to Basel and often met McKittrick.
Under an intelligence operation known as the “Harvard Plan”, McKittrick was in contact with Nazi industrialists, working towards what the US documents, dated February 1945, describe as a “close cooperation between the Allied and German business world”.
Thus while Allied soldiers were fighting through Europe, McKittrick was cutting deals to keep the Germany economy strong. This was happening with what the US documents describe as “the full assistance” of the State Department.
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