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Under Nazi Noses: How a Dutch Banker Heisted $1 Billion to Fight Hitler - Softcover

Marlin, John Tepper; Schaap, Erik

 
9781963632026: Under Nazi Noses: How a Dutch Banker Heisted $1 Billion to Fight Hitler
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1963632028 ISBN 13: 9781963632026
Verlag: Boissevain Books, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Discover the incredible true story of Walraven van Hall, the Amsterdam banker who organized the largest bank fraud in Dutch history to fund the anti-Nazi resistance. By forging treasury bills and stealing from the Nazi-controlled Dutch State Bank, he raised the equivalent of over a billion dollars in 2024 money without ever being discovered by his pursuers.

Why readers love this definitive history:
  • Untold History: The full story is told here for the first time for a non-Dutch, English-speaking audience.
  • Meticulously Documented: Translated and annotated with more than 750 endnotes explaining historical Dutch terms.
  • Real-Life Inspiration: Discover the real history behind "Kees Kip," the famous Resistance leader featured in Hilda van Stockum's classic book, The Winged Watchman.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Tepper Marlin is a former government economist who served as chief economist in New York City under three Mayors (Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg) and as a federal government economist in Washington, DC, in four administrations (Johnson, Nixon, Obama, and Trump. He translated Erik Schaap's book from Dutch and then, with the original author's encouragement, edited it heavily for an English-speaking audience and added more than 700 endnotes. He grew up in a home where Dutch was spoken by his mother and grandmother-but only when they didn't want him to understand what they were talking about, namely the deaths and dislocations in the Netherlands caused by the Nazi Occupation. Dr. Marlin's mother, Hilda van Stockum, was a cousin of Walraven (Wally) van Hall and wrote a children's book, The Winged Watchman" (Farrar Straus, 1962; Bethlehem Books, 1995), that has sold 300,000 copies.

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Verlag
Boissevain Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1963632028
ISBN 13 
9781963632026
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
4
Anzahl der Seiten
300
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