The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead

by Ziegler, Jean (Author); Brownjohn, John (Translator)

• ISBN13: 9780140278583
• ISBN10: 0140278583
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

A sharp and passionate expose' that demolishes the myth of Swiss neutrality in World War II, showing how Switzerland laundered gold looted from the banks of Nazi-occupied Europe and from the bodies of concentration camp victims. Maps.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction
Swiss Amnesia	3	(12)
The Defensive Alliance	15	(3)
Hubris	18	(15)
PART ONE: Hitler's Swiss Fences
The Bankrupt Fuhrer	33	(16)
Resistance	49	(17)
The Gold-laundering Machine	66	(9)
Three Sinister Swiss	75	(13)
Willful Ignorance	88	(13)
PART TWO: The Murderers
The Dakar Raid	101	(13)
Gold from the Death Camps	114	(17)
PART THREE: Economic Warfare
Switzerland Supplies the Tyrant	131	(12)
Allied Countermeasures	143	(9)
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and the Safehaven Program	152	(12)
Neutrality	164	(11)
PART FOUR: Vanquishing the Victors
Settling Accounts	175	(9)
The Infuriated Hucksters	184	(7)
The Innocent Guilty	191	(12)
PART FIVE: The Holocaust Haul
The Kind Soul of Europe	203	(6)
Deterrence on the Frontier	209	(26)
Misappropriation	235	(22)
Epilogue: Hope	257	(10)
Afterword	267	(16)
Appendix	283	(10)
Switzerland's Political System	283	(1)
Memorandum of Understanding	284	(2)
Federal Act of December 13, 1996	286	(3)
Appointment of the Independent Committee of Experts	289	(4)
Notes	293	(14)
Acknowledgments	307	(2)
Index	309