A Search for Gold (Fragments about the Yugoslav Gold during the World War II and the Question of its Restitution) Cover Image

Потрага за златом (фрагменти о југословенском злату током Другог светског рата и питање његове реституције)
A Search for Gold (Fragments about the Yugoslav Gold during the World War II and the Question of its Restitution)

Author(s): Milan Terzić
Subject(s): Political history, WW II and following years (1939 - 1949)
Published by: Udruženje za društvenu istoriju
Keywords: Yugoslav gold; World War II; restitution; Mate Topić Mimara; Cairo affair

Summary/Abstract: During the 1941 April war, Yugoslav royal government took a certain amount of gold, when taking refuge. The officers had later given the statements about the gold, which was also used in Yugoslav disputes in the „Cairo affair”. After the war, „new” Yugoslav authorities have undertaken a widespread investigation and diplomatic activity, in order to collect information necessary for claiming the gold taken from Yugoslavia and its restitution through the Restitution Commission. An obscure person Mate Topić Mimara was engaged for this aim. Apart from working for the Yugoslav state, he also worked for „himself”. The gold is again of a current interest in the division of Yugoslav heritage, and yet it again proves the stories that gold is atractive around the globe at all times.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2001
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 247-271
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Serbian
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