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- Towards the end of the Second World War, Adolf Eichmann
ordered that a train leave Budapest for Germany crammed with gold, silver,
paintings and furs seized from the 600,000 Hungarian Jews he had
exterminated.
Months later, American troops found the train hidden in a
tunnel. Then,
according to a new investigation by a presidential
commission, they proceeded
to help themselves.
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- According to the report drawn
up by the Presidential
Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the
United States, US officials
allowed the Nazi loot to be pilfered by
American generals, sold to soldiers
at auction and turned over to
Austria, instead of trying to return it to
the survivors of the
holocaust. Fifty-five years after he shot himself,
the resting place of
Adolf Hitler has been uncovered by building site workers
in Berlin
(Allan Hall writes). Historians hope to enter the bunker for
the first
time since 1945 before it is sealed, buried and a building housing
representatives of the German federal states is constructed on it.
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