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{{quote|''"We'll all be rich, rich as Nazis!"''|'''Private Burns'''
[[Acceptable Targets|Nobody likes]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]], but everybody likes gold - ''especially'' Nazis!
During the course of [[World War Two]], the Nazis found themselves in possession of a large quantity of gold
Unsurprisingly, this has excited a lot of people. Like pirates, Nazi Germany is imagined to have secreted large amounts of gold in hidden places, ripe for the avid adventurer to discover. If you find such '''Nazi Gold''', it's unequivocally yours - like finding spare change between couch cushions. At the very least, if you find this gold and turn in to the proper authorities, you'll be undercutting any remnants of [[Those Wacky Nazis]]
Half-[[Truth in Television]]
A specific sub-trope of
▲Half-[[Truth in Television]]. While discoveries are not unheard of, ''finders'' does not mean ''keepers''. The gold still has legal owners somewhere (and considering how the Nazis got some of those valuables, you'd probably be considered one of the ultimate dicks in the universe for not returning it to its pre-Nazi owners or their descendants). On the other hand, there is the possibility that the owners might give you a small reward for doing so (this is rare, but hardly unheard-of, particularly if you went to particular trouble to get it).
▲A specific sub-trope of [[Nazi Gold]], popular in central and eastern Europe, involves [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room the Amber Room], which was evacuated from Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) and never seen since.
▲{{examples|Examples:}}
* Nazi gold is one of the things [[Lupin
▲== Anime ==
▲* Nazi gold is one of the things [[Lupin the Third]] steals in an episode that will probably never see airtime in the states.
* Towards the end of ''[[Hellsing]]'' it's shown how [[Ghostapo|Millenium]] has managed to fund their organization for 60+ years. Apparently they have a massive horde of stolen treasure, including a bunch of [[Squick|silver and gold teeth]].
* In [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]], a character is paid in gold for his service to the Delaz Fleet Zeon rebels. The gold looks EXACTLY like the Reichsbank gold bar the Nazis used, with the exception of the swastika replaced by the Duchy of Zeon crest. Given the re-occurring allusions to Nazi Germany that the Duchy of Zeon used, this is highly appropriate.
* In ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', Nazi gold somehow made it into a submarine near Thailand, where a bunch of [[Those Wacky Nazis|Wacky Neo-Nazis]] attempt to recover it.
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* In ''
* In Warren Ellis' ''Ministry Of Space'', it turns out the British space program was funded primarily from the assets of those who died in the Nazi concentration camps.
* Subverted in the German comic ''[[
* In the first "season" of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' comics following the television series, Buffy's had the [[Sarcasm Mode|oh so brilliant]] idea of funding the Slayer organization by ''robbing Swiss banks''. She justified by saying it was all probably Nazi gold anyway. The Slayers using their powers to rob banks didn't exactly endear them to the authorities.
* In the movie ''[[Postal]]''
▲== Film ==
* [[James Bond (
▲* In the ''[[Postal]]'' movie, [[Uwe Boll]] confesses that he finances his movies with Nazi gold. "Someone has to spend it!"
* In ''[[
▲* [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]] wagers a captured bar of Nazi Gold in a golf game with ''[[Goldfinger (Film)|Goldfinger]]'', implying that he can supply more to the avaricious gold dealer.
▲* In ''[[Kellys Heroes]]'', A [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] attempt to steal a hoard of Nazi gold for themselves while [[World War Two]] is still raging.
* ''Armour of God II'' (''Operation Condor'' to Eaglelanders), starring Jackie Chan on a quest to uncover a lost Nazi stash.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Three Kings]]'' uses the Kelly's Heroes idea, but applies it Saddam Hussein and gold stolen from the Sheiks who ran Iraq before he came to power.
* The 1970s film ''Brass Target'' tells the (hypothetical) story of how a group of corrupt U.S. Army officers hired an assassin to kill [[Patton]] and make it look like an accident, to cover up their theft of a shipment of recovered Nazi gold.
* In ''[[X
* In ''[[Hellboy (
* In ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'', the modern heroes search for [
▲== Literature ==
* In the [[James Bond]] short story ''[[James Bond (
▲* In ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'', the modern heroes search for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold Yamashita's gold], more or less the Far East equivalent of this trope. A smaller cache transferred from the Nazis to their Japanese allies also figures in the plot.
▲* In the [[James Bond]] short story ''[[James Bond (Literature)|Octopussy]]'', Bond is assigned to apprehend a hero of the Second World War implicated in a murder involving a cache of Nazi gold. Agent 007 appears briefly in this story, which is told mostly in flashback and from the point of view of Major Dexter Smythe, the villain.
** This story is briefly mentioned in the film version, with the title character being Smythe's daughter.
* In Alistair Maclean's ''Bear Island'', a film crew is sailing to a remote arctic island. Eventually, it turns out that
* In the [[NUMA Series|Dirk Pitt]] novel ''Dragon'', Dirk helps uncover a stash of various Nazi treasures. As a reward for his help in uncovering the stash (And disabling a lethal booby trap), the German officer in charge of the excavation lets him keep one of the Me-262 fighter jets stored there.
* One of the many, many, many [[MacGuffin
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* One of the many, many, many [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]] in ''[[Allo Allo (TV)|Allo Allo]]'' were some Nazi gold bars, which were being stolen by [[Gambit Pileup|three different Nazi groups, a cafe owner and his waitress, and two different resistance groups]]. Along with some paintings and various other bits and pieces.
* Guy Secretan of ''[[Green Wing]]'' is Swiss, and is often insulted for his heritage, including references to Nazi gold. One hurricane of stereotypes runs:
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''[...]''
'''Mac:''' I see a chocolate Phil Collins coming out of a clock every hour, to tidy up his Nazi gold." }}
* In an anecdote during his Tinselworm show, ''Bill Bailey'' tells how at a corporate UBS gig he was told not to swear, which he was fine with, or mention Nazi gold, [[Sarcasm Mode|which was a problem for him as he starts his act by descending from the ceiling on a giant golden swastika, asking to open an account in NAZI GOLD!]]
* In March 2008, ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/162604/march-03-2008/das-booty---hitler-s-gold-pt--1 picked] [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/164124/march-18-2008/das-booty---hitler-s-gold-pt--2 up] a story about Nazi gold possibly being buried in a small town in Germany. It quickly turned into a parody of ''[[
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* Not gold, but the comedy ''[[Private Schulz]]'' had the protagonists seeking the forged British bank notes which had been dumped in a lake in Austria. Like every other plan of the title character to get his hands on them, it fails.
* An episode of ''[[
* A peculiar example comes from ''[[White Collar]]'' in the form of an amber-covered music box supposedly taken from the Amber Room. This music box has become the backbone of the show's developing [[Myth Arc]].
** The music box is one of the clues that eventually leads to {{spoiler|a sunken Nazi submarine filled with Nazi treasure and stolen art}}.
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* An episode of ''Auction Kings'' had someone try to auction off a Nazi handbook his father got from the war. In this case, however, there ''was'' a buyer.
* As part of a bizarre fake infomercial on [[Adult Swim]], there's an ad for a mom-and-pop store that specializes in exchanging Nazi gold for money.
* A suitcase full of Nazi gold is aboard the cruise ship to South America in the Spanish series ''[[Alta Mar]]''. Of course, everyone seems to be able to carry it like a proper [[A MacGuffin Full of Money|MacGuffin Full of Money]] even though that much gold would weigh tons.
▲== Radio ==
* ''That Mitchell and Webb Sound'' (the Radio version of [[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]) featured a sketch with a Swiss radio program about the History of Switzerland. The particular episode was "The Years 1939 to 1945: The Gold Rush".
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== Video Games ==▼
* ''[[Uncharted Drakes Fortune|Uncharted: Drake's Fortune]]'' sees the hero on the trail of El Dorado - and following in the footsteps of the Nazis who got there first.▼
* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'' featured the [[Knight Templar|Templar Gold]] which had been hidden from the Nazis.▼
* ''[[Wolfenstein (Video Game)|Wolfenstein]] 3D'' allowed the player to collect oodles of gold trinkets to gain points; if they got enough gold, they got an extra life bonus. ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein'' also included collectible gold and other precious things (including some bottles of Saint-Émilion 1938, a great Bordeaux wine) as a nod to its predecessor, but here it was primarily used as an [[Easter Egg]] and gave no benefit to the player.▼
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]''. Episode 7, ''Requiem of the Golden Witch'', reveals that Kinzo's ten tons of hidden gold is, while not quite Nazi gold, gold that belonged to the Italian Social Republic<ref>which was basically a Nazi puppet state</ref> that was smuggled by U-boat out of Italy before it fell. The impression on the gold bars is not actually the Ushiromiya one-winged eagle crest, but a partially faded imprint of the ISR eagle.▼
=== [[Action Adventure]] ===
▲* ''[[
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▲* ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[Freemans Mind]]'', Gordon Freeman speculates that there's Nazi Gold hidden somewhere in Black Mesa. "Ziegen Sie Mir das Geld!"▼
▲* ''[[Wolfenstein
* The [[Chaos Timeline (Literature)|Chaos Timeline]] has ''fascist'' gold, which is discovered by Red Pirates who decide to take off for Braseal (sic) instead of giving it back.▼
=== [[Visual Novel]]s ===
▲* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
== [[Web
▲* In one episode of ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'"; when Abe finally unlocks his stash of Nazi Gold (and paintings), he is immediately stopped by Federal agents who return it to the rightful owner; a spoiled and obnoxious young German man.▼
▲* The [[
{{quote| '''Agent:''' Baron von Wortzenberger, on behalf of the American people, I apologize for --<br />▼
'''Baron:''' Ja ja ja, mach schnell mit der art things, huh? I must get back to Dancecentrum in Stuttgart in time to see [[Kraftwerk (Music)|Kraftwerk]]. ''(they begin loading paintings into his car)'' ...Hey, watch out for the CD-changer in mein trunk! Idiot. }}▼
==[[Western Animation]]==
▲* Subverted in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'"; when Abe finally unlocks his stash of Nazi Gold (and paintings), he is immediately stopped by Federal agents who return it to the rightful owner
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▲'''Baron:''' Ja ja ja, mach schnell mit der art things, huh? I must get back to Dancecentrum in Stuttgart in time to see [[
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* On the subject of not giving
* On the other side of the Axis, Imperial Japan
** Better yet are the missing Swords.
* Russia goes through upheavals very regularly, and every time a lot of gold belonging to a dead regime allegedly vanishes into nowhere. The two latest{{when}} examples are Admiral Kolchak's Gold (actually the Russian Imperial gold), and the Soviet "Gold of the Party". Both are
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