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...providing cash Eizenstat said "had the clear effect of supporting and prolonging Nazi Germany's capacity to wage war." The persistence of a "business as usual attitude" by Switzerland, he told reporters, was "inexplicable." The Swiss do not find that attitude so hard to explain. Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti reminded the U.S. that in 1939, Switzerland was an avowedly neutral country surrounded throughout the war by Axis regimes. On what grounds should it have refused? The report, Cotti said, "is lacking a measured recognition of the extremely difficult situation in which our country found itself militarily and in supply terms...
...enemies. Our history is not our enemy. But the way we deal or not with our own history--that could be the enemy." It will be a difficult exercise, for the Swiss seldom probe their past. "I have spent 10 years in this government," notes Foreign Minister Cotti, "and until last year no one, I mean no one, spoke of the fundamental necessity of re-examining Swiss history. Now I realize this must be done because a country that has not really faced its past cannot decide its future...
...largest banks to compensate Holocaust victims. The banks had announced last week that they would put $71 million of seed money into an account at the Swiss National Bank, but said that they expected the government to manage the reparations fund and contribute to it. Swiss Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti said the account would be established within a week, and would be followed by discussions with business and Jewish organizations on how to disburse the money. The government won't decide on whether to contribute to the fund until early summer, though, when a study on Switzerland's role during...
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