Discover the incredible true story of Walraven van Hall, the Amsterdam banker who organized the largest bank fraud in Dutch history to fund the anti-Nazi resistance. By forging treasury bills and stealing from the Nazi-controlled Dutch State Bank, he raised the equivalent of over a billion dollars in 2024 money without ever being discovered by his pursuers.

Why readers love this definitive history:

Untold History: The full story is told here for the first time for a non-Dutch, English-speaking audience.
Meticulously Documented: Translated and annotated with more than 750 endnotes explaining historical Dutch terms.
Real-Life Inspiration: Discover the real history behind "Kees Kip," the famous Resistance leader featured in Hilda van Stockum's classic book, The Winged Watchman.

About the Authors

John Tepper Marlin is a former government economist who served as chief economist in New York City under three Mayors (Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg) and as a federal government economist in Washington, DC, in four administrations (Johnson, Nixon, Obama, and Trump. He translated Erik Schaap's book from Dutch and then, with the original author's encouragement, edited it heavily for an English-speaking audience and added more than 700 endnotes. He grew up in a home where Dutch was spoken by his mother and grandmother-but only when they didn't want him to understand what they were talking about, namely the deaths and dislocations in the Netherlands caused by the Nazi Occupation. Dr. Marlin's mother, Hilda van Stockum, was a cousin of Walraven (Wally) van Hall and wrote a children's book, The Winged Watchman" (Farrar Straus, 1962; Bethlehem Books, 1995), that has sold 300,000 copies.

Erik Schaap is a Dutch journalist and political scientist. He lives in Zaandam, a north-of-Amsterdam suburb that played a central role in the Resistance during the Nazi Occupation, 1940-1945. His Dutch biography of Walraven van Hall was first published in 2006. Schaap's book is based primarily on archives in Zaandam (where Van Hall lived during the Occupation years) and in Amsterdam. He attended the School of Journalism in Utrecht and studied political science at the University of Amsterdam.

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