Some 1,300 pounds of gold bars held by Germany’s largest commercial bank during World War II probably came from gold stripped from Holocaust victims, according to a German researcher. It was unlikely that Deutsche Bank knew the origins of the gold because the German central bank kept the origins of such gold ingots secret, the researcher added.
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