Pack Of Thieves

It was the largest organised robbery in history - the detailed, systematic looting of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and most of the nations of Europe: Axis, Allied and Neutral.

Now, for the first time, prizewinning journalist Richard Z Chesnoff details the full extent of this monumental theft of money, gold, jewels, art and property that began in Germany with the rise of Adolf Hitler, continued through the Holocaust and the Third Reich's occupation of Europe, and culminated in a postwar cloaking campaign that stretched from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, from France to eastern Europe.

Chesnoff, who was among the first reporters to break the story that Swiss banks were still hoarding the assets of Holocaust victims, travelled to eleven countries to research this heartbreaking, compelling story of human greed.

With direct access to hitherto classified files, he has also conducted exclusive interviews with bankers, government and Jewish officials, survivors and victims' families.

Revealing new details that many governments and bankers would prefer to remain secret, he describes the detective work used to trace Holocaust assets that, half a century after Nazi pillaging, continue to be hidden by European bureaucracy.