Hitler: “I had no interest in gold — either natural or synthetic.”

Originally posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2013

“[W]e’ll be building a solid State, proof against crises, and without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off into a concentration camp!  That’s the bastion of money.”  — Adolf Hitler.

Time Man of the Year 1938

12th November 1941, evening

{Keppler] was duped by the charlatan of Dusseldorf. In this way we wasted nine months. All the scientists had asserted that something would come of it. This was the period when every charlatan had some project to put before me. I told the alchemists that I had no interest in gold— either natural or synthetic.

Our opponents have not yet understood our system. We can be easy in our minds on that subject; they’ll have terrible crises once the war is over. During that time, we’ll be building a solid State, proof against crises, and without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off into a concentration camp! That’s the bastion of money. There’s no other way. The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.    He fills his pockets, and sneaks off abroad with his foreign currency. One cannot establish a money’s solidity on the good sense of the citizens.

— Adolf Hitler, as recorded in Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941 – 1944: His Private Conversations pp. 98 -99.