Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clock (the day begins at noon). The city's guest list over the years has been a veritable Who's Who of the radical right. Tim McVeigh called Elohim two weeks before the Oklahoma bombing. Some reports link him to former Elohim resident Andreas Strassmeir, a mysterious German weapons buff with neo-Nazi ties. And up a wooded slope in the settlement, marked by a simple white cross, is the grave of Richard Wayne Snell, a fanatic who allegedly conspired to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building 12 years earlier. He was executed the night of April...
Papers dealing with the project had begun to be declassified after the requisite 50 years, and Singer was fascinated by the possibility of digging into such secret government files. At least 130 members of his family were killed by the German machine in a single day. "They can't bring those people back," he says, "but they can at least give back to my mother, in her 80s, her wealth, her history and her standing." Singer asked his boss at the World Jewish Congress in New York for permission to begin an investigation of the Swiss accounts...
...President Franklin Roosevelt gets a classified report from William Donovan, chief of the Office of Strategic Services, calling his attention to the personal friendship between senior Swiss and Nazi central-bank officials and a deal they had arranged. Each month, Switzerland promised to purchase 6,000 kg of German gold, which the Reich was using to buy Swiss ball bearings. Roosevelt's reply: "We ought to block the Swiss participation in saving the skins of rich or prominent Germans." But Roosevelt took no action...
...undated paper records the debriefing of a certain Dr. Landwehr, who had directed the Nazi foreign-exchange department. "Dr. Landwehr estimates that all in all, the sum of German assets which passed into Switzerland amounted to at least 15 billion reichsmarks," said the report. "Landwehr dismissed with an ironic smile the Swiss estimate of 1 billion reichsmarks...
Nevertheless, in 1946, the tripartite gold treaty accepted a total of only $60 million in gold as Switzerland's payment in full of Nazi loot. Britain, France and the U.S. further decided the money would be given back only to German-occupied countries, not to individual claimants...