The Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold, also known as the Tripartite Gold Commission, was a panel established in September 1946 by the
United Kingdom
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,
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and
France
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to recover
gold stolen by Nazi Germany from other nations and eventually return it to the rightful owners. The Commission was headquartered in
Brussels
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.
After recovering gold and receiving claims for it, the Commission found that it had insufficient resources to pay back all of the countries in full. Thus, each country received about 65% of its claim from the gold reserves recovered by the Commission. The Commission completed its work and was formally dissolved on September 9, 1998.
Claimant countries
*Albania
*Austria
*Belgium
*Czechoslovakia
*Greece
*Italy
*Luxembourg
*Netherlands
*Poland
*Yugoslavia
References
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*{{cite web , title = Dissolution of the Tripartite Gold Commission , date = September 9, 1998 , publisher = US Department of State , url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1584/is_1998_Oct/ai_53227254/ , accessdate = 2009-05-29 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110724095328/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1584/is_1998_Oct/ai_53227254/ , archive-date = July 24, 2011 , url-status = dead , df = mdy-all
Allied occupation of Germany
World War II crimes
Organisations based in Brussels
Restitution
Gold