by Adam LeBor
Vossische Zeitung newspaper, 130
Vulture funds, 260
W
W. A. Harriman bank, 144
Wall Street, 1929 crash of, 10
Wall Street Journal, on BIS-Argentine dispute, 261
Wallenberg, Jacob, 74, 116–117, 197
Wallenberg, Marcus, 74, 116–118, 192
Wallenberg, Raoul, 74
War, banks and, 29–30
“War and Economics: Spanish Civil War Finances Revisited” (Martín-Aceña, Ruiz, and Pons), 55
Warburg, Eric, 150, 151, 176, 197–198
Warburg, Freddie, 160
Warburg, Paul, 18, 36
Warburg, Sigmund, 151, 195
Washington Post, on Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, 256
Watson, Thomas, 105, 109–110, 144
Weber, Ernst, 87, 89–91
Weekes, Lisa, 261, 270
Weidemann, Jens, 263
Weiser, Felix, 60
Weitz, John, 7
West Germany, 167, 182, 188
White, Harry Dexter, 95, 96, 121–123, 141–142
White, William, 228, 238, 244, 259
William III, King of England, 29
Williamson, David, 119
Wilson, Woodrow, 32
Winant, John Gilbert, 73, 82
Wolff, Julius, 31
Wood, Kingsley, 89
Woods, Sam, 161–162
World Bank, 121, 139, 257
Worsthorne, Peregrine, 4, 162
Y
Yap, Micronesia, 68
Young, Owen D., 9, 18, 140
Young Plan (1929), xviii, 12–13, 41, 192
Z
Zeiss lens company, 156
Zhou Xiaochuan, xi, 261
Zijlstra, Jelle, 171–172, 193–194, 206
Zyklon B, 104
About the Author
Szabolcs Dudas
Adam LeBor is an author, journalist, and literary critic based in Budapest. He writes for The Economist, the Times (London), Monocle, and numerous other publications, and also reviews for the New York Times. He has been a foreign correspondent since 1991, covering the collapse of Communism and the Yugoslav wars, and has worked in more than thirty countries. He is the author of seven nonfiction books, including the ground-breaking Hitler’s Secret Bankers, and two novels.
www.adamlebor.com• Twitter: @adamlebor
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