FORTUNES ABROAD

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 6

FORTUNES ABROAD

THE NAzf LEADERS

MORE DETAILS GIVEN V'4

Sensational statements on Ahe-extent of the private fortunes which*: have been accumulated^by-leaders|ofc the Nazi Party are .published: today .in sev/eral/leading newspapers, reported the ! X^ew^Yofk correspondents don "Daily■ ;Telegraph"v:on September ■^•■^B^SS?^-^^.' ■'.•."■■.■- •■■ ' It is stated that the information has | been collected by "an organisation of; j world-wide repute whose resourcje^are I literally < legion in number." /'-(This; is, the International;-; News Service>^andi the statements' were, v from/ Mrl; H.: Hi Knickerbocker.), :., '' v : v '; ) They declare that seven of Hitler's most: trusted; helpers—Ribberitrop,; Goebbels, Goering, Hess, Ley, Himmle'r, and Streicher —have among them deposited cash and securities abroad to the total of £3,334,000 .;and ;haye: taken; out lifeSinsurance):;vpolici^Sw. in foreign countries-tathe ibtal<va|U'e of ::£3,64Q,600.\://^;;f/.i/;|/;/ -,'id^^ .-. •: j Hitler himself r is-.-,the only>.'one of i the Nazi, oligarchy;.who hasTribt sought ! financial security by^leavingjlarge^esti eggs abroad;/ ■}■':'.]. ■>/."/^/-^/fyi^v: \ Yon Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister and former Ambassador to London, leads the list with a total of £1,948,000 in cash and: securities and. life insur-, ahce policies. He is stated tp Have | the equivalent of £633,000 in cash.' He himself is insured for .£1,133,000, his wife is insured for £144,000, arid his ! son £38,000; ; V .V '. GOEBBELS AND GOERING. Goebbels, Propaganda Minister, has 1 a grand total, of £1}798,000, made up of £927,000 in cash and securities, £373,000 in insurance for himself- and £498,000 on his wife. '•/■:.// Next comes Field-Marshal Goering with a round total of £1,501,400, of. which £715,000 is in cash and securities, £605,000 in insurance on himself and" £181,500 on his wife. : Herr Hess, famous as Hitler's deputy, has a mere £801,500, of which £449,000 !is in cash and negotiable paper. ; !• The total of Dr. Ley, Leader of the [Labour Front, is given as £378,200, of which £210,000 is in cash: Himmlerv head of the Gestapo, whose men. have I tracked down and; hunted out teps of thousands of. people for hiding^foreign securities, and cash, hasonly: £^OO,Opp in cash and. securities^ abroad, ;!• plus £127,500-• in life/ihsuraripe, :p^ V• v In1 the:; caseA. ofl \\; Ribbi^itrop^i; the /'Chicagby:Paili3fv!N€ws^ y says^t; *^;^ ■".. ;■

"Insurances: ;.on thTs statesman's lifQ have: been' transacted through friends in the wine industry, principally domiciled in Alsace-Lorraine, - at Colmar, Ricquewhir, .and Mainz. ,Insurance jpolicies,. it % added; have face values of £17,045 in France, £68,000 in Belgium, £350,000 in Holland, and £742,000 in Germany. . '. : ; "Policies- ■• on the? life of yon. ; Ribbentrop are stated to .have face values oi £14,000 in America and £47,368 iri Italy. Their son's life is stated to have been insure^ for £30,000 ■'■ in. sterling. -' -:" - '■'. ■'''/.•"- *"* . \ : "Large sums of foreign currency are declared to have been deposited on behalf- of the Nazi Foreign. Minister inthe Amsterdamsche bank at Haarlem, ■ in Holland, at the Hollandscheßi|iiten-! ■: landbank'at The Hague, and'at the / Banca della..Svizzera:ltaliana at Zurich, the total amounting'to £633,000 sterl- : ihg; at pre-war rate' of '.exchange. ::. ) ."'-'.'■■ JTOR B^ W^ ; -; ..ffDossiers on i Goebbels andthe other \ leaders: are: equally detiailedi -> fThei ■ ;agehts acting for Goebbels in"4;ransfer- ; ring-his^fuhds; abroad and ; hisi '.; life, insurance 'are stated" to have '< ;beeh: Wilhelm -Achterberg, of; Berliil \ a-id: Hamburg,!:travelling to 'Monte- :: video for the firm of Franz, formerly. : publishers,- of .Munich : and Berlin, ~ Thomas Buecher, of: Berlin, travelling I Tork ; and: Santiago, a' member i . or; Goeb bels's personal " staff J at.. the i Ministry of Propaganda, and Pau^on ■•Bbddehheirii, of Dresden, travelliilg: to Valparaiso arid Buenos Aires. . v i" - • ,' "Whether .: Hitler knows that ■.':, 'his helpers have been preparing'!for2l)ad weather is unknown. The fact that he himself has had faith enough- ibs restrict his inyestments to Nazi Germany indicates, that he- may have /expected , .'.his disciples to do likewise."^:-:s./----1 /Throughout the above account figures given in "the American :n^wspaper ; iii , /dollars have -been converted: into.-tiie ■current sterling eqmyalent v : r '^w;-:// /; Publication," which /has beet spread ' oyer- a" wide area/through ;.syndicatioh arrangements, has "created^a ■ in the United States today \ on' the /eve of Congress -reassembling to- consider the futuire.of the-.AmericanfaQeutrality ■ legislation.;-. /.-.:>. ':yj'^-^-^^hy^&i^ ■■ t ,, The news of : Nazuinyestoen|sd3; ! .■ given great, prominence in i-feei^ax^ '. and.^^^ Scripps-B^oward.'. grpup /7 ;pf/.nigwp-'''-. ■ papers/ throughout -.country; '■ afternoon.- ■'.■.: fy^-r/r •' ; /v'--:>--v?r!?s:S<f":/ In /New York; the '^ournai-Ainefi- < can'^: devotes; twO: columns on its/front 1 paige''td^it;^^ the/-W<>rld: Telegram^vohe ' column^ withr; a- big display'-of sphptoV • -!'-■- ■:'c:^'-"--./r"^ )^4v.'Sjv;/..:/ • _ The; f breign editor^^ bf^ctHe . ::Daily/;News," v^^tfed-t-'thfit'-'-yjßb.^;-" news' i Cwould-'be given; ah" eight-c6luinnfhead« ' !lme.i^d^ more'-thari-xn^/colu^^ t ;onr the front page of ithatsnewspaper. ; I Streicheri:the notbriousv^ew;: '» vbaitfer> who^ is wpbrted/tp haveVbeea placed uh^ier riestraiht^l^h^'Contented i ■h'wseM withtaking rout^^;life^irisuraric« policies^^ in Germany totalling £834^W0. .