( 5 reviews )
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Posted: Jul 24 2007
The book is somewhat informative in documenting the differnce forms of war-time gold and cash "management" by the Swiss government and banks. But the narrative is quite dry and often repetitive. Read it if you don't know much about the subject or can't find a more highly recommended book.
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( 4 of 9 found this review helpful ) Posted: May 9 2004
This is a good book on this subject it covers many areas of the Swiss partnership with the Nazis. I would highly recomend this book to anybody that is realativly new to the subject matter.Now for my small rant.It seams that every book on this subject has some reviewers that are in complete denial of what has been proven time and time again as fact. Why some people cannot accept that the Swiss sold their souls to the Nazis to avoid being invaded is beyond me. This book even thow it goes into many areas of the Nazi / Swiss connection, the sad unfourtunate truth is that there is even more ties that this book does not cover. A example being the fact that Swizerland was producing arms for Germany during WWII. The factorys were untouchable to the Allied bombers due to the so called neuteral status of the Swiss. If allied aircraft ventured into Swiss territory the Swiss would shoot them down, in the meantime Germany enjoyed free crossing across Switzerland by any mode of transportaion throughout WWII.I did not write this to bash the swiss. I have no anomositys towards them. My only agenda for these statements is to maybe shake people out of the denial they so blindly post in book reviews on the subject of Switzerlands connection and profiterring off the Nazis rise to power. Every country in the world has somthing dark in its past. Denial of mistakes your culture has made really just contributes right back into the evil that was done so long ago. I have to accept my ancetors wrong doing every bit as much as anybody, I am german, and proud to be German. Quit contributing to the lies told for so many years, accept that your ancestors were not perfect. only when you accept your herritage for better or worse can you truley move on and hold your head high again.
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( 8 of 20 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 2 2003
This is another Swiss-bashing book (not the first one from Ziegler) to be edited. Like Hitler said "if you keep on lying about a subject, in the end people will believe you". The proof is to be found in other posts here that say the Swiss stole money from Holocaust vicitims. Well after four years of an independent investigation, it was found that less than 200 accounts worth no more than $12 million belonged to Holocaust victims. The Times of London correctly called previous claims that Swiss Banks had stolen billions from Jews, a "MYTH".
