Hitler Sent Ton Of Gold To Switzerland Who Profited From Sale Of Gold In Last Shipment Still Not Known

Hitler’s Third Reich secretly shipped a ton of gold coins to its diplomatic mission in Switzerland in the final days of World War II, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The previously undisclosed shipment by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler’s foreign minister, would be worth $10 million at today’s prices.

The shipment, which arrived in the Swiss capital of Bern on April 19, 1945, was in addition to gold that Nazi Germany sold Switzerland and other countries, according to the SonntagsZeitung newspaper.

The 28 cases of coins were sold off by a Swiss-appointed trustee after the war, said the newspaper, which based its report on newly discovered microfilm found in Vienna.

It remains to be determined who received the proceeds from the sale of the coins, which apparently stemmed from looted gold.

It long has been known that in addition to official gold sales during the war, Germany shipped gold to Switzerland by diplomatic courier.

Earlier this year, a U.S. report found that Switzerland had received $1.8 billion to $2.8 billion in looted gold from Germany.