History Main / NaziGold

** This incident indeed happened in RealLife. A massive hoard of Nazi treasure, including the majority, if not all of, the gold and currency reserves of the Reichsbank as well as looted works of art and more grimly looted items such as gold teeth, eyeglasses and personal effects of Holocaust victims, were discovered in a salt mine in Merkers-Kieselback in the center of Germany. ''Monuments Men'' gives the idea that Generals Eisenhower, Patton and Montgomery were short-sighted and boorish for posing with the gold bars rather than with Art/TheGhentAltarpiece. However, for all the vast importance of the art to world culture, getting the fact that the Allies had essentially seized Germany's checkbook disseminated to the wider world was more important to winning the war. With no hard currency, the few remaining creditors still willing to support Germany pulled out, turning a grim situation for the Third Reich into a utterly hopeless one.

* ''Literature/StarterVillain'': Charlie is told that Jake hid a large stash of valuables looted in WWII-era Europe and kept for decades by the Lombardy Convocation. After Dobrev is apparently killed; Charlie makes a deal to buy off the rest of the Lombardy Convocation's current members with it. But [[spoiler:there is no stash, only empty crates. It was a set-up by Dobrev and Jake to get the Convocation's members to kill each other]].

* In ''Film/PostalFilm'', [[AsHimself Uwe Boll]] casually mentions in an interview that his movies are funded with Nazi gold. His reasoning: ''"Hey, '''someone's''' got to spend it!"''

-->-- '''Private Burns''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E22 "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'"]]

* Film/TheEqualizer2: One of the side plots has [=McCall=] tracking down information for Sam Rubinstein, a Holocaust survivor who is trying to get back a family painting of his sister that was stolen by the Nazis and went through a succession of undocumented sales. [=McCall=] is able to find out that Rubinstein's sister actually survived the war and reunite them.

* In ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'', Haupstein pays a guide to the site where Rasputin could be resurrected with a bar of gold stamped with a swastika, then kills him.

* In the film adaptation of ''Film/{{Postal}}'', [[AsHimself Uwe Boll]] casually mentions in an interview that his movies are funded with Nazi gold. His reasoning: ''"Hey, '''someone's''' got to spend it!"''
* The final [=MacGuffin=] of ''Film/RedNotice'' was stolen by the Nazis in WWII, and eventually ended up in a hidden treasure stash in [[ArgentinaIsNaziland South America]].

* The ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' episode "The Ten Percent Solution" had the Phoenix Foundation's attempting to auction a painting only to be interrupted by a Holocaust survivor who claims the painting was stolen from his family by the Nazis. The subsequent suspicious attempted silencing of said survivor leads Mac to discover a massive neo-Nazi conspiracy that infiltrated the entire West Coast of the US.

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* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'"; when Abe finally unlocks his stash of priceless Nazi paintings, he is immediately stopped by State Department agents who confiscate and return them to their rightful owner, a spoiled and obnoxious German {{yuppie}}, for diplomatic purposes.

'''Baron:''' Ja ja ja, mach schnell mit der art things, huh? I must get back to Dancecentrum in Stuttgart in time to see Music/{{Kraftwerk}}. ''(they begin loading paintings into his car)'' ...Hey, watch out for the CD-changer in mein trunk! Idiot.

* Film/TheEqualizer2: One of the side plots has McCall tracking down information for Sam Rubinstein, a Holocaust survivor who is trying to get back a family painting of his sister that was stolen by the Nazis and went through a succession of undocumented sales. McCall is able to find out that Rubinstein's sister actually survived the war and reunite them.