The Telegraph: Bank of England helped the Nazis to sell plundered gold

The Bank of England has admitted its role in one of the most controversial episodes in its history - helping the Nazis sell gold plundered from Czechoslovakia months before the outbreak of the Second World War.

An official history, written in 1950 but posted online for the first time on Tuesday, detailed how the "Old Lady" transfered gold held in its vaults to the Germans despite the UK Government of the day placing a freeze on all Czech assets held in London.

In the history, the Bank of England insists its role in an episode that "still rankled for some time" after 1940 but was "widely misunderstood".

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