“A Reichsbank president who was totally ignorant of what went in and out of the vaults of his bank.”
Walther Funk (1890–1960) German economist and politician
Robert H. Jackson
“As Minister of Economics, Funk accelerated the pace of rearmament and as Reichsbank president banked for the SS the gold teeth fillings of concentration camp victims, probably the most ghoulish collateral in banking history.”
Robert H. Jackson
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