"The Swiss government archives reveal that those in power in Switzerland after 1945 pursued a calculated policy of delay, deception and dishonesty towards not only the Allies but also towards the Jewish organizations pleading for fairness. Unaware that the records of their discussions would be read by a foreign journalist years later, those involved in the discussions were shockingly candid about their motives and intentions.

The object of Swiss policy was to protect the nation's huge wartime profits, to protect the looted gold accepted from the Reichsbank, to protect the loot deposited by the SS and Nazi party plunderers in Switzerland's banks and safety deposit boxes, and to protect German investments in Switzerland. In that selfish endeavor, the Swiss government coolly exploited the Jewish predicament, using the Jews as pawns to deny the truth and to compel the Allies to abandon their just claims. "

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"According to those records, repeatedly in the post war era, those in power in Switzerland agreed upon a policy of deceit, not least towards the Jews. For example, in 1949 when the Swiss government concealed from Jewish representatives a secret agreement with Poland; in 1952, when Switzerland's foreign minister signed a letter to the Allies testifying that there were no heirless Jewish assets in Switzerland; and after 1962 in the dishonest administration of a law introduced allegedly to help Jews find their inheritance in Swiss financial institutions. Recent research has shown that half of the heirless Jewish assets admitted by the banks were returned to the banks rather than transferred to the Jews. The utterances to government officials by Max Oetterli, one of the secretaries of the Swiss Bankers Association, were so violently anti-Semitic that it is now clear why the issue is unresolved 50 years after the war"