Dr. Jareb’s book gives scholarly answer to various questions and (most often falls) assertions and conjectures regarding the fate of gold and money of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of World War II. His answers are based on primary source material most of which was found in the Croatian State Archives.

     The introductory part of the book give an overview of the activities of the Croatian State Bank during the war and its role in transferring parts of the state treasury to the West toward the end of the war. Chapter one deals with a shipment of gold shipped to Switzerland during 1944 and its final fate. Second and third chapters give specific answers what happened to the national treasury at the end of the war, more specifically to the parts of the treasury that was taken out of the country in May 1945.

     In recent times, there has been a lot of talk about Croatia’s gold and Vatican connection (see for example U.S. News and World Report, March 30, 1998), but Dr. Jareb concluded that “not a single lipa of the gold [moved out of the country in 1945] was deposited in the Vatican’s bank or in a bank of any other country.”