Then laws were passed.

People are "requested" to give up their jewelry, to make a patriotic sacrifice of it for the Fatherland.

Cards are printed in the newspapers urging the people for the sake of the Fatherland to bring all their gold into the Reichsbank.
So fine is the search for gold that wedding rings are given from the fingers of the women, and iron rings are substituted as badges of patriotism.
While every other nation on earth since 1900 has been accumulating gold in bank reserve, England alone has stood aloof and accumulated credit instead of gold.

English financiers laugh at gold except as it can be made useful.

They prefer to hold interest-bearing promises to pay gold.