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Old 10-02-2018, 02:49 PM
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I think at the time of the start of the Twilight nearly all of Germany's gold reserves was already stored in the US Federal Reserve in New York. Some of it was also stored in London and Paris, but the vast majority was stored n New York. I think Germany had (still has) the worlds second largest gold reserves.
Exactly, they had 1500 tons (half their reserves) stored in NY.
Reason it was there in the first place was to protect it from Soviets but also they had a lot stored in Paris... now that's an interesting twist...
I actually wrote up and ran a game at Origins Game Fair where Italian gold reserves were seized by US Govt..... and promptly disappeared in the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_repatriation
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