El día que Churchill sacó TODO el ORO de Inglaterra | OPERACIÓN FISH (Parte 1)

This is the story of Operation Fish: the largest transfer of wealth in history. A secret operation in which Churchill, the Bank of England, and the British Navy attempted to safeguard the Empire's financial capacity to continue fighting. In 1940, as Hitler conquered Europe at an unprecedented speed, the United Kingdom made a desperate decision: to move its gold, jewels, bonds, and the financial wealth of an entire empire before the Nazis could enter London. Thousands of crates. Hundreds of tons of gold. War convoys crossing the Atlantic under the threat of German U-boats. All bound for Canada. But this story isn't just about ships, ingots, and spies. It also explains what happens when a state goes to war: how it controls gold, currency, property, and ultimately, the population living under its jurisdiction. Because in 1940, gold wasn't an investment. It was power. And without gold, there could be no war. 📌 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES: Draper, A. (1979). Operation Fish: The Fight to Save the Gold of Britain, France and Norway from the Nazis. Don Mills, Ontario: General Publishing Co. ISBN: 9780773600683. **This is the definitive reference work. Draper had access to previously classified government documents that allowed him to reconstruct the operation, described as "the most extraordinary secret history of the Second World War." It exists in two editions with slightly different titles: 1) Operation Fish: The Fight to Save the Gold of Britain, France and Norway from the Nazis (1979, General Publishing, Canada) 2) Operation Fish: The Race to Save Europe's Wealth 1939–1945 (Cassell, London) Bank of England (1942). Unpublished War History, Chapter V: Gold. Bank of England Archives. McDowall, M. (1997). Due Diligence: A Report on the Bank of Canada's Handling of Foreign Gold During World War II. Bank of Canada. Available at: www.bankofcanada.ca/publications/books-and-monographs/due-diligence/ Library and Archives Canada (2013). "Hiding British Gold." Library and Archives Canada. Available at: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cool/002027-2301-e.html Stowe, Leland (1963). "How Britain's Wealth Went West." Newspaper article by American correspondent Leland Stowe, one of the first public accounts of the operation. Preserved as a PDF at the Australian Department of Defence: http://www.defence.gov.au/sydneyii/SU... Breuer, William B. (2008). Top Secret Tales of World War II. Book Sales. 244 pp. ISBN: 9780785819516. (Includes chapter on Operation Fish.) Duivenvoorden Mitic, Trudy (2000). "Guarding the Gold." Canada's History (formerly The Beaver), October 2000. Powell, James (retired historian from the Bank of Canada). Account of Operation Fish published on his blog Today in Ottawa's History and referenced by CBC News (July 2021). Naval-History.Net (1998). Campaign Summaries of World War II, German U-Boats at War, Part 1 of 6, 1939–40. Available at: www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsUboats.htm Childers, Thomas. World War II: A Military and Social History (recorded lecture series). ---------------------------------------- #OperationFish #gold #Churchill #Hitler #WorldWarII #Gold #History #Liberalist