Interesting set of events. But the artificial dramatization really reeks of a cheap B grade pulp. I am sure the fictionalization could have been done more tastefully. It evokes Sam Spade or Tracer Bullet more than a working chemist.

  ...taking gold out of Germany was almost a capital offense,
  carrying a punishment not to be sneezed at. George was
  certainly not sneezing, but his palms were sweating as if
  he had a fever and his heart was pounding like a drum....

  Perhaps in the near future he would be holding a Nobel
  Prize of his own.
  
  But for now, these two Prizes were all he had, and they
  were getting smaller.