This story begins in 1983 in the office of Montreal lawyer Glenn (Joseph) Feldman.
According to Feldman, his business partner and his partner’s father came to see him.
They said their Uncle Ludwig was at the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital. He was dying and wanted to leave them his estate. Feldman told them they’d need a will.
After Ludwig died, they returned with a will apparently signed by him, but missing the signature of a witness. They asked Feldman to be the witness.
“I said, ‘I can’t do it,'” Feldman said in the documentary Gold Bars. “I never met this guy. I never saw this guy sign anything. How do I know this will’s signed by Uncle Ludwig?”
But they begged Feldman and reminded him that when his father had died, the partner’s father had helped Feldman through that time. “They played on my sensitivity,” Feldman said.
In a moment of weakness, Feldman agreed to witness the will. “I witnessed a signature of a person who I never met — never saw — that I wasn’t present when he signed,” Feldman said. “You can’t witness something that you didn’t witness. That’s illegal.”
Days later, they asked Feldman to visit Ludwig’s home to do an inventory of the estate. Feldman said that’s where he first saw what he believed was $3.6 billion worth of gold bars — and a photo of Ludwig in a Nazi uniform.
Gold Bars follows Feldman’s DIY investigation into what he believed was gold stolen from Holocaust victims by the Nazis.
When Feldman publicly accused his former business partner of living off the gold, he was hit with a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit, which threatened to bankrupt him and destroy his career.
As Feldman’s profile grew, his 28-year-old daughter, Alex, started to worry about him. She works in film and reluctantly agreed to help with and document his investigation.
Alex was drawn into a web of conflicting evidence, reluctant witnesses and increasingly implausible theories. Feldman’s primary evidence was collected in a document he called the Long-Form Summary, a meticulous account of his findings, which attempted to connect his former partner’s family to a high-ranking Nazi SS officer who fled to Canada using a forged Jewish identity.
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