When pursuing the truth matters even if governments are reluctant and embarrassed to expose their compliance... bravo for William Z. Slany!!!!! "According to the investigation, many of the stolen assets were stored in ostensibly neutral nations, including Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Argentina. The report’s sharpest criticism was of Switzerland, which was estimated to have possessed as much as $400 million in looted gold. “The massive and systematic plundering of gold and other assets from conquered nations and Nazi victims was no rogue operation,” Eizenstat said in the 1997 preliminary report. “It was essential to the financing of the German war machine.” That report also emphasized the shortcomings of the United States, particularly government officials’ reluctance after the war to aggressively seek compensation for Holocaust victims. Jim Hoagland, a Washington Post foreign affairs columnist, called the preliminary report “a Matterhorn of integrity and truth-telling.” The initiative encouraged more than a dozen nations to set up their own investigative commissions. It also has been credited with setting the groundwork for later settlements, including a landmark $1.25 billion settlement by Swiss banks with Holocaust survivors and their families."
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:28 +0000
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