Title: Hitler's Silent Partners
First published: 1997
Description: Award-winning journalist Isabel Vincent unravels the labyrinthine story behind the headlines: how desperate men and women tried to secure their families' futures by opening bank accounts in Switzerland; how the Nazis laundered, through Swiss banks, gold seized from the treasuries of occupied countries, much of it looted from the Jews; how the demands of international business, Swiss bank secrecy, and greed have conspired to prevent the truth from being disclosed for over half a century and still prevent restitution. Balanced, rigorous, and often heartbreaking, this major work also gives a human face to the statistics: a crusading Toronto lawyer; Edgar Bronfman, the passionate head of the World Jewish Congress; a Swiss parliamentarian determined to discover her country's past; and Renee, a survivor waiting in the shadows for some small justice, already a little too late.
Subjects: Banks and banking, Claims, Confiscations and contributions, Corrupt practices, Destruction and pillage, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of World War, 1939-1945, Jewish property, Jews, Reparations, World War, 1939-1945, Confiscations, Economics, War reparations, Nachrichtenloses Vermögen, Konfiskation, Verwahrung, Joden, Banktegoeden, Holocaust, Tweede Wereldoorlog, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Switzerland, Banks, World War II, Gold, Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ), Monetary gold confiscations, Réclamations de guerre, Or monétaire, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Confiscations et contributions, Holocauste, 1939-1945, Réparations, Banques, Hitler, adolf, 1889-1945, Germany, history, 1933-1945, Switzerland, foreign relations, Banks and banking, switzerland, World war, 1939-1945, confiscations and contributions, World war, 1939-1945, switzerland, World war, 1939-1945, jews, World war, 1939-1945, economic aspects, germany, World war, 1939-1945, reparations, World war, 1939-1945, destruction and pillage
Places: Europe, Germany, Switzerland
LC classification: D810.D6 V56 1997