Ian Sayer

Ian K. T. Sayer (born 30 October 1945) is an entrepreneur, World War II historian, author and investigative journalist. His Sayer Transport Group (established in 1967 and sold in 1979) became part of the British and European overnight door to door express parcels delivery industry.

He is a World War II historian and studies Third Reich documentation. He is co-author of Nazi Gold, The Story of the World’s Greatest Robbery and claims to remain the only private individual to have been responsible for the location and restitution of looted Nazi gold That claim remains unchallenged. He has also tracked down a number of Nazi war criminals including SS General Wilhelm Mohnke whose wartime activities were subsequently investigated by the British, Canadian, American and German governments.

He currently acts as curator to the ‘Ian Sayer Archive’, a collection of contemporary World War II documentation which assists in providing new information to institutions, other historians, authors and researchers of the period.