Swiss Banks and Jewish Souls
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781560004264
Subjects: Banking; European history: Second World War; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Financial services industry; Jewish studies; Military - World War II; History - General History; Jewish Holocaust; Western Europe - General; History: World; Switzerland; Holocaust; Social Science / Jewish Studies; Banks And Banking; Banks & Banking; 20th century; Corrupt practices; Foreign bank accounts; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Description: 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.