Chapter 1045 Nazi Wealth

"Huh? Brother Huangfu, do you know this person? It seems that you are really sociable in the United States..."

Zhuang Rui was also stunned for a moment. He wanted Huang Fuyun to find a friend to inquire about it, but he didn't expect this guy to know him. It seems that he used to be really good in the United States. You know, the people who can be called friends are estimated to be worth more than 10 billion US dollars.

Huangfuyun smiled bitterly and said, "Well, I know him, but I guess he doesn't know me. You really found the right person. In the United States, only a few people are worthy of Bonadette's real identity..."

Sure enough, as Zhuang Rui guessed, this person named Bonadette is really not an ordinary person.

After World War II, a new large consortium emerged in California, the United States, called california group, which includes Bank of America Group, San Francisco Group and Los Angeles Group.

During World War II, the group's economic strength grew rapidly with the rapid development of California's arms industry. In particular, the growth rate of financial capital was particularly amazing, forming a large consortium with the Bank of America as the financial center.

Just 20 years later, in 1974 alone, the consortium had assets of 1671 billion US dollars, ranking third among the top ten consortia in the United States. It plays a major role in the political and economic life of the United States. It forms an emerging arms industry group force with the Southern Consortium and becomes the East. The power of the old conglomerate in the north.

More than 30 years have passed since the 1970s. The influence of this consortium has long been integrated into the United States and even every corner of the world. The actual assets cannot be estimated at all, and Bonadette, the head of this consortium, has been firmly since the late 1980s. Holding the lifeblood of this big consortium, it has a great influence in the United States.

You know, the social form of the United States is highly free. To put it mildly, all the politics and diplomacy of the United States are in the hands of those conglomerates. Among other things, the funds needed for the presidential election are also donated by these conglomerates. After the president takes office, how can it not be accepted? What about its impact?

So people like Bonadette are real people in the upper class of the United States. Their influence is incomparable to that of the President of the United States in some specific circles. The social resources they can use are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. As for those American mafia or other underworld societies. In front of these people, it's as vulnerable as a child.

"Brother Huangfu, how did you know him?"

After listening to Huang Fuyun's introduction, Zhuang Rui couldn't help but feel a little strange. A real tycoon like this is generally very low-key. As Huang Fuyun said, there are basically few people who know Bonadette in the United States. It's reasonable to say that Si Tai can get to know this person, but in the Go to that circle.

Huang Fuyun laughed when he heard the words and said, "Where I used to work, I once had some business with him..."

It turned out that this man named Bonadette came from a military family. From the musket era in the 19th century, some people in his family held high positions in the United States ***, and participated in the mining of gold mines in California, accumulating a rich original capital.

The Bonadette family participated in World War I and World War II. When the US *** team entered Berlin, the leader of the Bonadette family, the father of Bonadette, was one of the generals, and Huangfuyun's so-called business also originated from that time. One thing.

Although the US *** team entered Berlin later than the Soviet Red Army in order to reduce its own casualties, the wealth looted by the Nazis from all over the world still made the Americans make a fortune. According to the dictation of an American soldier in those years, they could know how huge the wealth was.

"We feel that we have entered a heavenly treasure house. The scene inside is difficult to describe in words. In front of us is a illuminated, 23-meter-wide and 45-meter-long secret room. There are more than 7,000 marked bags in it. The height is knee-high and full of 20 rows, and the spacing of each row is about 1 meter.

There are bundles of cash on the other side of the room, and the words "Melmer" are printed on each bundle of labels. These boxes obviously belong to the pseudonymous accounts of the Nazi SS, which is the first clue about the scope and complexity of wealth plundered by the Nazis in Europe.

We opened the bags and put these belongings on the list: 8,198 gold ingots, 55 boxes of gold bricks (2 pieces per box, each weighing 10 kg), hundreds of bags of gold utensils and products, more than 1,300 bags of gold marks, gold francs and gold pounds, 711 bags of $20 gold coins, from 15 other countries. Hundreds of bags of gold and silver coins, hundreds of bags of foreign exchange notes, 9 bags of rare ancient gold coins, 2,380 bags and 1,300 boxes of German mark cash.

With a face value of 2.76 billion, 20 silver ingots weighing 200 kilograms each, 40 bags of silver bars, 63 boxes of 55 bags of silver plates, 1 bag of white gold (6 white gold ingots), and 110 bags of diamonds and jewelry looted from different countries.

In other tunnels, we also found a large number of precious works of art from European museums and from private individuals: oil paintings, prints, pencil paintings, carvings, antique watches, stamp albums. These treasures also exposed the cruelty of the Nazis, including several bags from extermination camp prisoners. The extracted golden tooth..."

The discovery of this treasure was called Merck's treasure by later generations, which was hidden by the Nazis' early plans to transport the wealth plundered in the war to other countries.

At the beginning of 1946, the currency gold (gold bricks, gold bars and gold coins) in Merck's treasure was handed over to the Allied War Reparations Committee, and finally to the Gold Restitution Committee of the United States, Britain and France, which was responsible for returning the gold to the central bank of the affected country as soon as possible.

In addition to this treasure, another treasure of similar size is the gold plundered by the Ustaša regime in Croatia, but this batch of gold was not found in the end.

There are signs that they are most likely to be secretly transported out of Europe by the Vatican and the CIA. How much of this treasure remains in the Vatican is still a mystery. Several smaller Nazi treasures have been found in the Austrian Alps.

Except for Merx's treasure, the rest of the treasures became unknown in the end, and many treasures disappeared from people's eyes for no reason. Except for some people with intentions, many people forgot the existence of these treasures with the passage of time.

At the beginning of 2003, some European victims of World War II suddenly raised the issue of Nazi treasures at that time, and attracted the attention of relevant organizations. With the cooperation of many countries, many dusty history was gradually unveiled.

There is a lot of evidence that at that time, not only part of Merx's treasure was hidden by Bonadette's father, but also some small Nazi treasures excavated later were secretly transported out of Europe by Bonadette's father. Of course, he did not give these things to the country.

The revelation of this incident set off an uproar in the United States and European countries. Several countries, which were deeply devastated by the war of World War II, united to ask the current Bonadette to return the treasures such as gold, gold bars and gold coins hidden privately at that time, and sent a joint legal team.

There is a popular saying in the lawyer world: "Law is the game of the rich", which has been confirmed in the United States. In addition to the hundreds of millions of football star who was acquitted from killing his wife, Mr. Bonadette also spent a lot of money to hire hundreds of lawyers and defeated the alliance of lawyers in those small countries.

The reason why Huang Fuyun knew about this matter was that he was one of the hundreds of lawyers at that time. Through this case, he knew the person of Bonadette. Of course, the case was not heard in public. Until the sentencing, there were still very few people who knew Bonadette.

After listening to this strange story, Zhuang Rui was a little curious and asked, "Brother Huangfu, you have been in contact with the case. How much treasure did Old Bonadette take from Germany at that time?"

Huangfuyun pondered, as if thinking about the case in those years. After a while, he said, "According to the figures put forward by those claimants, the wealth was more than hundreds of billions of dollars at that time. If it is put now, there are at least trillions of dollars, which is immeasurable..."

Not to mention the wealth represented by hundreds of billions of dollars in the 1940s and 1950s, let's take China's multimillionaires in the 1980s as an example. The multimillionaires at that time were not inferior to the top of the Forbes rich list now. You can imagine how much of this wealth there is.

"Damn it, this consortium is accumulated with the wealth of half a European. No wonder it has developed so fast..."

Zhuang Rui now understands why such an emerging force can compete with those old forces in the United States in just a few decades. With those Nazi gold as capital, I'm afraid it is difficult to develop slowly.

After Huang Fuyun finished explaining to Zhuang Rui, he asked strangely, "At the way, Zhuang Rui, you haven't told me how did you get this person's business card? Let me tell you, this man is not famous, but to sif he wants to sle his real power, Bill Gates is far worse than him..."

Huangfuyun's meaning is that Zhuang Rui understands. In this world, the most famous people may not be the richest people. Bill Gates is famous, but the background of many old-fashioned strength is far from comparable to these financial upstarts who have risen in the past 20 or 30 years.