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STUDENT: MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ LOPEZ

Name of the book: NAZI GOLD


Author: Tom Bower
Total number of chapters: 16 Pages: 404
Name and number of chapters:
1. Confrontation and Tears
2. The Seeds of Crime
3. The Crusade
4. Looted Gold
5. “An Impenetrable Racket”
6. Cracks
7. The Nazis´ Friends
8. The Pawns
9. Washington Showdown
10. The Hidden Millions
11. Perfidious Swiss
12. The Polish Conspiracy
13. New Hope
14. Keepers of the Flame
15. Complicating the Riddle
16. The Deal
Characters of those chapters:
-Adolf Hitler, Markus Feldmann, Emil Alexander, Albert Matter, Goodwill, Heinrich
Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich.
Chapter 1:
The holocaust was the mass murder of millions of people at the hands of the Nazi
regime during the Second World War that took place between 1939 and 1945.
The Jewish population was the main objective of the Nazis, it is estimated that two
out of every three European Jews died during this extermination campaign.
In 1933, the German National Socialist Party, Onazi, came to power in Germany,
led by Adolf Hitler, who promised to make real political and economic
transformations for Germany, which was severely affected after the end of World
War I and with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, in 1918.

Chapter 2:
The ideological basis of the Nazis was that the Aryan race is considered as
"dominant race" while the Jews were seen as "inferior", the objective of the Nazis
was to eradicate the Jews, exterminate them, through hate, isolation and
segregation campaigns of the Jewish population.
With the coming to power of the Nazis, the establishment of concentration camps
that were based on forced labor began, and which eventually became
extermination camps.

Chapter 3:
It is estimated that at least 6,000,000 Jews died in the camps between 1939 and
1945, due to sanitary conditions, lack of food, suffocation, inhalation of poisonous
gas and shot murders.
The horrible conditions of the Nazi concentration camps were known until 1944
after the filtering and dissemination of the "Auschwitz" report written by two Swiss
Jews who documented the experience and its horrors in the concentration camp
and were presented to the world.

Personal opinion:
It is a great book in which I have been able to understand what was happening in
the concentration camps, the stories of the Holocaust survivors and their aftermath
in the years after the Second World War, it is a story that catches you since it is
very interesting and At the same time it terrifies, I am a big fan of universal history
so for me reading this book is fantastic.
CHAPTER 4:
In the last weeks of World War II, when Soviet troops were advancing from the
East, the Nazi authorities in Hungary arranged for the departure of a train to the
west of Germany loaded with all the valuable belongings of the Hungarian Jews
victims of the Holocaust. Only the marriages of those people filled boxes and
boxes that were introduced in the train.But in May 1945, US troops intercepted the
caravan in Austria and moved all its contents - gold, silver, paintings and skins - to
a warehouse near Salzburg. However, the Americans did not give a better end to
all those stolen goods that the Nazi authorities intended to give.

CHAPTER 5:
After Nazi Germany unleashed World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland,
the SS leaders continued to compete with their rivals for the "solution" of a "Jewish
problem" that now affected all of Europe. With the invasion of the Soviet Union on
June 22, 1941, Germany embarked on a war against its archenemy in Europe:
Soviet communism. On July 17, 1941, Hitler entrusted responsibility for security
behind the front lines in the USSR exclusively to the Himmler SS and the police,
and extended the SS authority for the implementation of settlement plans and
demographic policies for the Soviet Union under occupation.
The SS led all the most important operations of the "final solution". The regional SS
authorities and the police were responsible for the murder of one million Soviet
Jews in shootings between 1941 and 1943, although the gendarmes and the
Romanian military killed several hundred thousand Ukrainian and Romanian Jews,
directly shooting them or indirectly through deliberate abandonment, the lack of
food and medical supplies in the Transnistria under Romanian occupation.
CHAPTER 6:
While some doctors and other health professionals, under the general direction of
the head of the Chancellery of the Führer de Hitler, implemented operations to kill
people with disabilities in Germany, Austria and the Protectorate, the officers of the
RSHA Criminal Police they played a decisive role for the implementation of
Operation T-4, the best known of these murder operations, with which German
officers killed approximately 70,000 people.

The mass murder of Soviet prisoners of war was primarily the responsibility of the
Wehrmacht personnel who administered the prisoner of war camps; but the
Security Police and the SD routinely selected those prisoners to shoot them,
according to the RSHA guidelines.
Finally, the police and SS units in Poland under occupation were in charge of the
killing of tens of thousands of members of Polish cultural and political elites, in
addition to deportation and demographic movements within Poland that caused
other tens of thousands of deaths.

PERSONAL OPINION:
It is a great book in which I have been able to understand what was happening in
the concentration camps, the stories of the Holocaust survivors and their aftermath
in the years after the Second World War, it is a story that catches you since it is
very interesting and At the same time it terrifies, I am a big fan of universal history
so for me reading this book is fantastic.
CHAPTER 7:
In a speech before the German parliament in January 1939, Hitler declares that
another world war will result in the elimination of Jews from Europe.
August 23, 1939
The foreign ministers of Germany and the Soviet Union, Ribbentrop and Molotov
respectively, sign a pact between the two countries. The most important principle
of this agreement is a pact in which each signatory agrees not to attack the other.
In 1940 the Generalissimo first met the Führer at Hendaye station, in occupied
France. The historic meeting is consummated in the special car of the Führer,
expressing that: "Spain was spiritually united with the German people, without
reservations, felt one of its axes, particularly since soldiers of the three powers had
fought side by side in the Civil War. In the future, Spain would always be next to
Germany. Spain would like to join Germany in the current war, "but there were
economic, military and political difficulties that prevented it.
Then Hitler's environment concludes: "Franco was happy to meet with Hitler
personally and wanted to thank him for everything Germany had done for his
country."

CHAPTER 8:
Fall of 1939 or beginning of January 1940
Adolf Hitler signs a secret authorization for a "euthanasia" program, the systematic
murder of patients with mental and physical disabilities living in institutions in
Germany and the annexed territories. It is the only case in which Hitler signs an
authorization for a mass murder program.
1941
In 1941, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and other high-ranking
German authorities made the decision to annihilate the Jews of Europe.
June 22, 1941
The German army invades the Soviet Union, in the "Operation Barbarossa". Unlike
their conquests in Western Europe, Hitler and other Nazi leaders consider war
against the Soviet Union in racial and ideological terms.
CHAPTER 9:
December 11, 1941
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Nazi Germany and its ally Italy declare
war on the United States, despite the fact that that country had only declared war
on the Empire of Japan. In less than a year, US infantry troops will fight against
German forces in North Africa.
December 8, 1941
The United States declares war on Japan and enters World War II. Japanese
troops land in the Philippines, French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia)
and British Singapore. In April 1942, the Philippines, Indochina and Singapore are
under Japanese occupation.
PERSONAL OPINION:
It is a great book in which I have been able to understand what was happening in
the concentration camps, the stories of the Holocaust survivors and their aftermath
in the years after the Second World War, it is a story that catches you since it is
very interesting and At the same time it terrifies, I am a big fan of universal history
so for me reading this book is fantastic.

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