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    "description": "Based on intensive research in the archives of six countries, this monograph presents an in-depth analysis \r\nof Belgium\u2019s monetary and financial history during the Second World War. \r\nExploring Belgium\u2019s financial and business links with Germany, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, \r\nthe United States, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the study focuses on the roles played in this \r\ncomplex wartime network by the Central Bank and private bankers in Brussels, \r\nby the Belgian government in exile in London, and by the Belgian minister plenipotentiary in New York. \r\nAmong the many subjects arising in the course of the analysis are: German attempts to plunder Belgium \r\nand Belgian resistance strategies; the peripeteia of the Belgian gold reserve, given in custody to the \r\ncentral banks of France and Great Britain; the role of the Belgian Congo; Belgium\u2019s participation \r\nin the discussions leading up to the Bretton Woods conference; and the negotiations for creating a Customs Union, \r\nthe so-called Benelux, blueprint for the 1958 Treaty of Rome. The final part of the book analyzes the famous \r\nmonetary reform devised by Belgian Minister of Finance Camille Gutt at the liberation of the country \r\nin September 1944. A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War is a magisterial contribution\r\nto European history, Belgian history, and the history of the Second World War.\r\n\r\n",
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