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Swiss Banks and Jewish Souls (Hardcover)
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Swiss Banks and Jewish Souls (Hardcover)
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With the release of hundreds of damaging documents, a dark side of
Switzerland's democracy has been unveiled. Switzerland is now seen
as a nation of greedy bankers, collaborators with the Nazis, and
robbers of the wealth of the victims of the Holocaust. "Swiss Banks
and Jewish Souls" is a powerfully enlightening account of how a
small and determined group of people from divergent backgrounds
humbled the legendary Swiss financial empire to achieve a measure
of justice for Holocaust survivors and their heirs, while
shattering the myth of Swiss wartime neutrality. Rickman tells how
a small group of people, none of them professional historians,
pieced together a puzzle of unknown proportions and proceeded to
dismantle the myth of Swiss innocence and victimization at the
hands of the Nazis, and expose a fifty-year cover-up. Untold
numbers of European Jews and others placed their funds in Swiss
banks because they believed they offered a safe haven for funds
which the Nazis were trying to control. What better place to put
their money than in Switzerland? "Swiss Banks and Jewish Souls"
discusses how investigative groups proved that Switzerland stole
the money of the Jews and helped the Nazis to do the same. No one
began with evidence and no one had a source of knowledge upon which
to fall back. All they shared was a feeling that something was
terribly wrong and that a great injustice had occurred. Propelled
by this instinct, a U.S. Senator, the World Jewish Congress, a
British Parliamentarian, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a
handful of Holocaust survivors accomplished what the U.S., British,
and French governments and a group of feuding Jewish organizations
could not or would not do. As a result of this effort, how the
world views Switzerland and how Switzerland views itself has been
redefined. Most importantly, those who survived the Nazi horrors,
only to be victimized again by the Swiss bankers, have now achieved
some measure of justice, or at least financial compensation after
more than fifty years.
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