Real History and the Nuremberg Trial What is the Origin of the “Gold Teeth” Allegation? Source: Hans Fritzsche’s Nuremberg memoirs The Sword in the Scales, contributed by a visitor to this Website the again your newsletter Pictures from David Irving: Nuremberg, the Last Battle Albert Speer and Walter Funk in the dock at Nuremberg From the Nuremberg Trial memoirs of Reich press chief, Hans Fritzsche He [ Thomas Dodd ] dropped every sign of harshness from his manner and seemed to become
almost genial as he entered into discussion with the defendant about his former collaborators, particularly a certain Puhl who had been a senior director of the Reichsbank. Funk , impressionable and gullible, visibly revived under this treatment; he seemed almost happy in the informal atmosphere of this examination. Puhl? Why, yes, of course: a very sound man. The witness agreed that he had always set great store by old Puhl. A thoroughly trustworthy fellow.
Dodd now dropped the pleasant subject of Puhl and steered the conversation to the subject of the gold reserves of the Reichsbank, the stocks of bullion immediately available at different times and the various fluctuations of the reserve funds. At the end of this thoroughly technical and friendly conversation the prosecutor asked quite casually if the Reichsbank had had any special relations with the S.S. “None that I can think of,” said the Bank’s last President. Then the genial Mr.
Dodd became a little more insistent. Would Funk please think again, exert his memory? Funk did so and finally remembered that the S.S. central accounts department did, indeed, maintain a deposit account and a safe in the Reichsbank. Dodd interrupted with a casual question as to whether it was customary to have gold teeth deposited in the Reichsbank? “No, it was not customary.” “Well, I will now show you a film taken by the Allies when they first entered premises belonging to the Reichsbank.”
Funk was shepherded