What busy little beavers! They were
producing a scam just as if

it were a Hollywood flick! .... (Of which there were many!)

Say 'adieu' to the gold
teeth story...

Yup!
Now just what does that leave still standing?

Not so fast!
Just where did the gold teeth come from,
then?

What is the Origin of the "Gold Teeth"
Allegation?

Source: Hans Fritzsche's Nuremberg
memoirs The Sword in the Scales, contributed by a visitor to this
Website

(My apologies to the beaver
species!)
http://www.fpp.co.uk/History/General/Nbg/Goldteeth2.html

Pictures from David Irving: Nuremberg,
the Last Battle
Albert Speer and Walter Funk in the dock at
Nuremberg

From the Nuremberg Trial memoirs of Reich press chief, Hans
Fritzsche

He [Thomas Dodd] dropped every sign
of harshness from his manner and seemed to become almost genial as he
entered into discussion with the defendant about his former collaborators,
particularly a certain Puhl who had been a senior director of the
Reichsbank. Funk, impressionable and gullible, visibly revived under this
treatment; he seemed almost happy in the informal atmosphere of this
examination. Puhl? Why, yes, of course: a very sound man. The witness
agreed that he had always set great store by old Puhl. A thoroughly
trustworthy fellow.

Dodd now dropped the pleasant subject of
Puhl and steered the conversation to the subject of the gold reserves of
the Reichsbank, the stocks of bullion immediately available at different
times and the various fluctuations of the reserve funds. At the end of
this thoroughly technical and friendly conversation the prosecutor asked
quite casually if the Reichsbank had had any special relations with the
S.S.

"None that I can think of," said the Bank's
last President.

Then the genial Mr. Dodd became a little
more insistent. Would Funk please think again, exert his memory? Funk did
so and finally remembered that the S.S. central accounts department did,
indeed, maintain a deposit account and a safe in the Reichsbank.

Dodd interrupted with a casual question as
to whether it was customary to have gold teeth deposited in the
Reichsbank?

"No, it was not customary."

"Well, I will now show you a film taken by
the Allies when they first entered premises belonging to the Reichsbank."

Funk was shepherded back to the dock, the
lights were extinguished, and we saw projected on the screen before us the
horrible pictures of what the Americans found in the strong-room of the
Frankfurt offices of the Reichsbank. We saw soldiers enter the building
and the big safes swing open. Huge, tightly packed bags with the imprint
Deutsche Reichsbank dropped to the floor; powerful men needed all their
strength to lift them on to tables. Then the seals were solemnly broken
and the contents poured out: rings, bracelets, ear-rings, trinkets;
jewellery of every conceivable kind from simple brooches to great tiaras,
coins, banknotes, studs, sleeve-links, and above all false and gold-capped
teeth in their thousands. And in the midst of this fantastic booty in this
nightmare of a thieves' kitchen we saw again and again the emblems of the
state we had all served and the clear imprint Deutsche Reichsbank.

We sat flabbergasted. The lights were
switched on and Dodd went back to the rostrum to confirm that this film
had been made immediately after the Allied occupation of Frankfurt on
Main. Anyone could verify the details by looking at the official minutes
of the meeting of 7th May, 1946.

Funk tottered from the dock to the witness
chair. He was completely shattered. He confirmed that he did know about
the S.S. safe deposit and clearly remembered the formalities of its
establishment. But, of course, he knew nothing whatever about the contents
of the deposit. No bank bothers about the exact articles a client chooses
to put in the safe he has hired. But what he found entirely inexplicable
was the presence of the big bags with the imprint Deutsche Reichsbank;
bags of this kind were never handed to safe deposit holders.

Then the Prosecution struck again. It
produced an affidavit signed by Reichsbank director Puhl, the very man
whose reliability Funk had so amply and generously confirmed. This
affidavit had evidently been signed after a showing of the film we had
just seen.

The text of this document seemed a subject
of dispute; the Prosecution's interpretation of it was that Funk, after
having accepted the S.S safe deposit account, had then instructed Puhl not
to bother about the contents stored with the bank by that organisation. It
was by no means impossible to assume on the strength of Puhl's statement
that Funk had known all about the horrible robbery and had acted as a sort
of fence.

Moreover the Prosecution now produced
further evidence of fantastic dealings, such as an offer by the Reichsbank
to the Berlin Municipal pawn-shops for the 'most advantageous disposal of
a collection of rings, ear-rings, brooches, bracelets, pearls, diamonds,
etc.' -- an official document signed in 1942. Yet another paper seemed to
indicate that these appalling business-deals were transacted on behalf of
the Minister of Finance.

Then the Prosecution struck a third blow.
It recalled to the accused his mental breakdown and tearful confession
after his arrest a year before and reminded him of the full and detailed
confession made by Hoss; then he advised him to search his heart and his
conscience.

We all wondered at this stage whether we
were about to witness the collapse of the defendant in open court; there
seemed every reason to suppose that we should. But this apparently feeble
man, still very ill, and deeply shaken by what seemed overwhelming
evidence did not break down. Indeed he seemed to display more firmness
than we had yet seen him show in court as he stated in a solemn and
subdued voice that he had been ignorant of the contents of the
safe-deposit, and that if Puhl has said otherwise he would have to answer
for it before God and his own conscience; for it was not true.

Funk's counsel asked for Puhl to be called
for cross-examination.

I suppose that in the eyes of the people
present in that crowded hall the accused was already a hopelessly beaten
man when he made his way back to his seat in the dock. None of us had any
idea where a chink might be found in the seemingly flawless evidence the
Prosecution had produced. Yet we were all of us quite certain that Funk
had spoken the truth. It would have been physically impossible for him to
sustain the ordeal of that cross-examination without a clear conscience.

A few days later Puhl took his place on the
witness-stand. He appeared as a free man and when, first questioned by the
Prosecution, briefly confirmed his affidavit.

Dr. Sauter, Funk's counsel, then proceeded
to cross-examine and asked him to elucidate his affidavit. Counsel wanted
to know its precise significance.

This produced a considerable surprise: Puhl
testified that he had never wished to claim - nor indeed had he in so many
words - that the defendant was aware of the contents of the safe deposit.
As the lawyer's questions probed into the past circumstances and technical
details of the bank's transactions with the S.S. the apparent
contradictions in the statements of the two directors began to dissolve
and the differences between the present witness and the accused grew less.

Now Mr. Dodd stepped up to the rostrum and
wished to know with whom Puhl had spoken during the last few days.

'To Dr. Kempner.' (right)

Dr. Sauter then rose to ask: 'Did you speak
to me as well''

'No, I didn't. I see you here today for the
first time in my life.'

As I returned to gaol that evening I
happened to glance at the door of the cell next to mine. It was No. 31 and
had been vacant since Raeder had been moved to the south wing; now it
appeared once again to be tenanted. Right over the spy-hole I could see a
brand new name-plate: 'Puhl'.

Puhl was held in the Nuremberg prison for
about a year at the end of which he appeared in the dock at the
'Wilhelmstrasse' trial. However, the Allies were not very lucky with this
man, who, though he looked not unlike Funk, had a great deal more calm
tenacity.

At the Wilhelmstrasse trial Puhl got an
official of the Frankfurt branch of the Reichsbank to testify on his
behalf. The witness declared under oath that at the time of the city's
occupation by American troops the strong-room and all the safes of the
bank had been completely empty; and were so when he had handed them over
to the Occupation Authorities.

The witness was then questioned about the
film, which, according to Mr. Dodd's statement had been made immediately
after the occupation of Frankfurt. To this he answered that he knew all
about it because he had been personally present during its production. A
few days after the occupation some U.S. lorries had pulled up at the door
of the branch and the manager requested to hand over Reichsbank bags which
were then filled with gold teeth, jewellery, etc. taken from the lorries
and put in the empty safes. After these safes had been filled cameramen
appeared and made a film of their contents.