Bank of England helped in sale of looted Nazi gold

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BBC News - 7/31/13

Hitler and his army enter Prague on March 15, 1939
Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1939
 

The Bank of England helped in the sale of gold stolen by Nazis after the 1939 invasion of Czechoslovakia.

A document from 1950 shows the gold bars were sold by the Bank on behalf of Germany's central Reichsbank.

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