ABSTRACT
This chapter presents four different orders of evidence, official, institutional, private, and material, that trace the source of the 1916 gold deposit by the Ittihadist in Berlin's Reichsbank to the victims of the genocide. The Ittihadist's strategy to confiscate the assets and bank accounts of the deported Armenians involved a three-step process. First, official ministerial memos were distributed to all European, American and local financial institutions. Second, by order of Interior Minister Talk, special "Liquidation Commissions" were to be set up in various provinces and cities in Turkey for the submission of the target lists. Third, by invoking the "Law of Abandoned Properties," all such capital and riches were taken over by the Ministry of Finance and transferred to the Central Ottoman Bank in Constantinople. The fate of the five million pounds of Turkish gold transferred in 1916 from Constantinople to Berlin remains an enigma.
