Nazi Dental Gold: From Dead Bodies till Swiss Bank

The SS Reichsfürher Heinrich Himmler, on the 23rd of September 1940 gave the SS doctors orders to collect the golden teeth in the mouth of the dead, and also “the golden teeth that cannot be repaired”, from the mouth of the people alive. This decree, that was part of the T4 Operation, was not systematically put into practice on the concentration camps prisoners. Himmler decrees that collection of dental gold should be systematic, in a second decree, on December the 23rd 1942. This measure directly results from the concrete organisation of the Final Solution. It was enforced in order to get enough money to buy raw materials.