Posted on 07/09/2025 12:30:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Few people—even diligent media followers—are likely to speak knowledgably about the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Yet, hidden in plain sight in a 20-story tower (with four more stories below ground level) in Basel, the BIS influences the leaders of the world’s top central banks and controls the global economy. Moreover, it cannot be questioned or held accountable for any of its actions. In his 2013 book Tower of Basel, Adam LeBor, a former reporter for The Economist and author of thoroughly researched works such as Hitler’s Secret Bankers, The Last Days of Budapest, and City of Oranges, analyzes the bank’s history to explain how it gained unlimited power.
He also exposes its complete amorality. Thomas McKittrick, the bank’s chief during the war, whom the author calls “Hitler’s American Banker,” kept passing critical information to the Nazi regime. The BIS financed the Holocaust by accepting gold stolen by the Nazis from Belgium and marking it as German, even though a Belgian central banker warned that the gold had probably been melted down and re-stamped with German markings.
Austrian and Czech gold was also accepted as German deposits and kept out of reach. It was common knowledge that, besides gold from the governments of occupied nations, the Nazis were depositing gold stolen by the Devisenschutzkommando (DSK), Hitler’s special squads of treasure-hunting torturers. But that did not matter to the BIS. Kapital über alles, as LeBor titles the first part of the book.
Hunger for profit and disregard for ethics—these seem to be ingrained in the very DNA of the BIS. As recently as 1991, when the Argentinian economy collapsed and the country was $81 billion in debt, the BIS accepted—and thus kept out of creditors’ reach—money that should have rightfully been returned to them. Besides two fund management firms, the creditors were mostly...
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Finally, a Jew accuses some goyim of controlling all the banking and usury …
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In concept, the BIS works to harmonize currency values and national balances so as to prevent damaging fluctuations. In practice, as with most bankers — and especially the Swiss — there has often been a element of shadiness at the margins.
Sorry. Tried to post pic of guy from the Mission Impossible series.
Basle is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine.
City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa
Adam LeBor
Review By Micah D. Halpern – December 12, 2011
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/city-of-oranges-an-intimate-history-of-arabs-and-jews-in-jaffa
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