Austria agreed to turn over its share of residual Nazi gold to an international humanitarian fund set up last year to benefit Holocaust survivors. Austria’s share of the remaining gold in the Tripartite Gold Commission’s pool amounts to about $8 million. Austria’s move means that more than a dozen European countries have agreed to donate their gold to the commission.
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