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Switzerland: National Socialism and the Second World War - Final Report of the Independent Commission of Experts (Hardcover)
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Switzerland: National Socialism and the Second World War - Final Report of the Independent Commission of Experts (Hardcover)
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In continuation of a long-standing national self-image, Switzerland
saw itself after 1945 as a "small neutral state," which because of
its will to resist and a clever policy managed not to be drawn into
the Second World War. However, this self-image has been the subject
of an increasingly heated debate since the 1970s. The argument that
Switzerland had above all been a "victim of developments in world
politics," was increasingly confronted with the counter-argument
that this country had aided the perpetrators in important - mainly
economic - areas. More recently, dealings in looted gold and the
issue of dormant bank accounts and stolen cultural assets have come
into focus, in addition to inquiries into the mysterious
disappearance of the assets of victims of persecution and
extermination. In this situation, the Swiss Parliament and
Government set up, at the end of 1996, an internationally composed
Independent Commission of Experts whose five-year assignment was to
investigate these allegations in their historical and legal
context. Thanks to the unique privilege of access to archives, it
was possible for the first time to overcome the obstacle of Swiss
banking secrecy - believed to be insurmountable until then - and to
extend the research to the archives of banks and other companies. A
crucial document on 20th-centruy European history, this volume
presents the full and final report of the Commission, illustrating
Switzerland's predicament as a country not only with strong
economic, but also close cultural ties to Germany, the neighbor
that threatened the country's very survival. A multifaceted picture
emerges of the challenges of those dark years - challenges that
Switzerland met with varying degrees of success. Distributed for
Pendo Verlag, Switzerland
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