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to recover gold stolen by Nazi Germany from other nations and eventually return it to the rightful owners. The commission was headquartered in

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. After recovering gold and receiving claims for it, the Commission found that it had insufficient resources to pay back all of the countries in full. Thus, each country received about 65% of its claim from the gold reserves recovered by the commission. The Commission completed its work and was formally dissolved on September 9, 1998.

Claimant countries

*Albania *Austria *Belgium *Czechoslovakia *Greece *Italy *Luxembourg *Netherlands *Poland *Yugoslavia

References

* *{{cite web , title = Dissolution of the Tripartite Gold Commission , date = September 9, 1998 , publisher = US Department of State , url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1584/is_1998_Oct/ai_53227254/ , accessdate = 2009-05-29 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110724095328/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1584/is_1998_Oct/ai_53227254/ , archive-date = July 24, 2011 , url-status = dead , df = mdy-all Allied occupation of Germany World War II crimes Organisations based in Brussels Restitution Gold