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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: A senior Deutsche Bank executive who signed off on major Trump loans killed himself in CA [View all]bucolic_frolic
(43,148 posts)I searched a month ago and couldn't find much pre-1960s and post-WWII. Swiss banks were supposedly where all the banking secrecy was, but this seems under the radar too. Was it Hitler's bank, or did Schacht bank there or use it to stash funds? What happened to funds on deposit at the end of WWII? I think the Wikipedia article said DB did forensics in the 60s, and everything was cleaned up?? Haven't time to look at it more closely this morning. But it is a subject for research. Why were they lending to Trump, and what were the source of the funds? Was Russia using DB at any time before or after the war? Was it used to hide Nazi money like the Swiss banks were rumored to?
My mind goes back to a work of fiction, Robert Ludlum's The Holcroft Covenant where a modern New Yorker inherits billions that his dad a Nazi General dumped in a Swiss Bank. But hey, it's fiction, and Ludlum was a master spinmeister.