You've got to be kidding.For German and Japanese investors in the 1930s, it seems the short answer is physical gold. Even if you survived the incineration of your city and home, you might still be able to dig a shiny lump of metal out of the burnt rubble.
Most Germans probably lived in apartment buildings. If they lived in cities. Which were bombed and burned flat by "urban renewal, Royal Air Force style" (my great uncle flew Lancaster bombers over the Reich - at least 25% of those bomber crews never made it home).
When the Soviet Army came across your farmland, if you were still there, they probably shot you (male) or you'd died in the Volksturm (peoples storm) militia. Your wife and daughters? Worse.
Tokyo? Burned to a cinder. If you lived, you weren't likely getting back to your home block. See Grave of the Fireflies (the fact that it is Studio Ghibli, and animated, should not make you think it is a movie for young persons).
Swiss Bank Account? Yes. If you could get access to it after the war, and you didn't die beforehand. And if there had been the 1000 Year Reich, then that wouldn't have been safe either from the depredations of the gauleiters.
Statistics: Posted by Valuethinker — Thu May 09, 2024 8:50 am — Replies 11 — Views 751