@article{1476602,
      recid = {1476602},
      author = {Michálek, Slavomír,},
      title = {Nazi Germany and the role of the US in the fate of  Czechoslovak monetary gold /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 331 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book provides a detailed account of the  Czechoslovak-American dispute that arose over monetary gold  which was forcibly seized by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.  After the Second World War, the Czechoslovak gold was found  by the American armed forces in the salt mines in Merkers,  Germany. Over the next 37 years, it became a part of  complicated Czechoslovak-American relations, international  economic trade, and political-ideological disputes and  conflicts. Only in February 1982, after extensive  diplomatic discussions, was a sufficient portion of the  gold returned to the Czechoslovak State Bank in Prague.  This book maps the story of this gold, how it was seized,  blocked and finally, returned. Tracing the path of the  monetary gold from its seizure by Nazi Germany in the 1930s  to the last decade of the Cold War, the author outlines the  main diplomatic steps taken to resolve the dispute, which  framed the shape of bilateral relations between Communist  Czechoslovakia and the USA. Offering a new contribution to  the history of the Second World War and shedding light on  East-West relations during the Cold War period, this book  will provide useful reading for those researching modern  European history, the Cold War, and international history.  Slavomír Michálek is Executive Director of the Institute of  History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava,  Slovakia. A graduate of the Faculty of Arts, Comenius  University, his research covers US foreign Policy and  Czechoslovak-US relations after the Second World War, the  history of the United Nations, Slovak figures in  Czechoslovak interwar diplomacy, and the second and third  Slovak and Czechoslovak democratic exiles in the USA.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476602},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38758-6},
}