Operation Safehaven

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The Operation Safe Haven was to identify an Anglo-American program, which was launched in December 1944 to life to German assets in neutral countries and after the war Western Allied supply hands. The overriding aim of the operation was to permanently deprive the German economy of the means to restart the war. Operation Safehaven served to prepare for the confiscation of all German state and private assets abroad (this included foreign subsidiaries and private property abroad - including those in neutral countries). The value of this property was between 5 and 8 billion German marks (measured in 1950 value).

literature

  • Martin Lorenz-Meyer: Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad . University of Missouri Press, Columbia MO 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Breitman : Review of "Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad" by Martin Lorenz-Meyer . In: Journal of Cold War Studies , 10, 3, 2008, pp. 164-166.
  2. ↑ Korcaighe P. Hale: The Limits of Diplomatic Pressure: Operation Safe Haven and the Search for German assets in Ireland . In: Irish Historical Studies , 36, 143, 2009, pp. 389-406, JSTOR 20720320 .
  3. ↑ Donald P. Steury: The OSS and Project Safe Haven - Tracking Nazi "Gold" . CIA: Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  4. ↑ Germany's greatest spoils of war . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1951 ( online ).