A government-created panel in Argentina has uncovered evidence that the nation’s central bank served as a repository for Nazi gold after Hitler’s fall. In recent weeks, Argentine researchers found three letters from the 1950s, including one implicating the Swiss central bank, that they say prove Argentina served as a hub for laundering Nazi-looted gold.
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