The Holocaust in the Dock

摘要

As a moral issue, the case seems so clear-cut. On one side, the Nazis and their accomplices, the Swiss banks. On the other, Holocaust survivors whose money and property were stolen by the Germans and laundered through Switzerland, or whose bank accounts the Swiss may have plundered. Thus have the lines been drawn for a year, as new revelations forced Switzerland to confront the darker side of its "neutrality" during World War Ⅱ. But the Swiss have admitted their complicity oh so slowly—and that has enraged many Jews. "The victims," said World Jewish Congress chairman Edgar Bronfman, "aren't getting any younger." Finally, after months of mounting public pressure, Switzerland moved last week to salvage its reputation. Three big Swiss banks established a $70 million Holocaust fund for survivors.