AMERICKÝ KONGRES A ČESKOSLOVENSKÉ MENOVÉ ZLATO 1980 – 1981

• Authors: Michálek Slavomír

Title variants

EN

American Congress and Czechoslovak monetary gold 1980–1981

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The history of the Czechoslovak monetary gold began to be written at the end of the 1930s at the time of the mutilation and break-up of the Czechoslovak Republic. The gold was forcibly and illegally seized by Nazi Germany. At the end of the Second World War, the American army of occupation found it in salt mines at Merkers in Germany with gold from other countries. It was only in 1982 that an adequate part was returned to the vaults of the State Bank of Czechoslovakia in Prague. Soon after the Second World War, the USA, Great Britain and France established the Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold on the basis of decisions by the Paris Reparations Conference. Its task was to secure the just and proportional return of recovered gold to all the affected countries including Czechoslovakia. During the following decades of the Cold War, gold was a regular subject of conflict, dispute and negotiations, especially between Washington and Prague. The agreements reached were cancelled by one side or the other, and they repeatedly went back to the beginning. This study is directed towards the period 1980–1981, when the United States Congress significantly intervened in the question of the return of the Czechoslovak gold.

Keywords

EN

MONETARY GOLD; CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC; US CONGRESS; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; RESTITUTION

• Publisher: Institute of Historical Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 701 - 724

Contributors

author

Michálek Slavomír

• Historický ústav SAV, P. O. BOX 198, Klemensova 19, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2018.66.4.6