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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (42061)	11/28/2005 1:22:59 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Private companies. But national gov'ts control international trade, right? It is well known that they were taking and safeguarding plundered treasure from the Nazis. Hitler's income from the sales of "Mein Kampf" ended up in a Swiss bank account. It is also well known they "lost track of" bank accounts of Jews killed in the Holocaust. Hitler appears to have placed revenues derived from the sale of Mein Kampf in a Swiss bank adl.org Here's a Swiss version of events. Reading between the lines, I'd vote "Guilty as charged." twf.org Here: All the clearing credits were used by the German and Italian armies to buy Swiss machines, agricultural products and, above all, war materials, so that the loans granted by the Swiss government contravened the law of neutrality. uek.ch Emile George Buehrle, founder of the Oerlikon-Buehrle Machine Tool company, was blacklisted for selling armaments to Nazi Germany during the Second World War. peacemagazine.org Have you ever wondered why Switzerland was not invaded by the Nazis when the rest of continental Europe was?