In Adolf Hitlers early rise to power, he stirred the souls of impressionable youth in alehouses of Munich and beyond. One such young man, Hans Reinhard Richter, ignored his brothers warnings about the mad man and immersed himself in Hitlers promises for a greater Germany. I put on my black shirt and marched. He joined the Nazi Party and quickly rose in ranks to answer to the likes of Himmler and Gring. As an SS officer himself, Hans was in charge of overseeing coal mines, reconfiguring them as gold depositories. He fulfilled his superiors orders to steal from banks, museums, even concentration camp victims to build vast wealth for