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Much of the electronic money zips into a secret banking industry that got its start in Switzerland in the 1930s as worried Europeans began shifting their savings beyond the reach of Hitler's Third Reich. Later the country's infamous numbered accounts became a hugely profitable business. Chiasso, a quaint Swiss town of 8,700 inhabitants on the Italian border, has 18 banking offices. But during the past few years, Swiss secrecy has been weakened by a series of cases involving money laundering. Switzerland is now preparing a new law that will make money laundering a crime punishable by prison...
...imports has recently been a theme of Democrats like Richard Gephardt. But before he came along, the same worries were being expounded by John Connally. There is no such thing as a presidential primary in South Carolina without a protectionist pitch to the local textile industry. When the Fourth Reich joins the Yellow Peril as an economic bogeyman, squabbling on the right between free traders and protectionists is bound to increase...
...Cooper wonders "how we can know that the emotions and motivating forces behind the Third Reich are really dead." For one, most of the people who lived and shaped (and were shaped by) that time are now dead...
...pass on their horrific heritage. In school, at home, and in the media, we grew up with images of the Holocaust, German war crimes, and the destructive power of ideology and nationalism. We spent years of painful confrontations with the older generation about their involvement in the Third Reich. Does Cooper think that that was all worth nothing...
...wondering if Cooper thinks that there is something in the genetic make-up of a German which makes him or her an evil person who is unable to learn from the past. Otherwise, he could hardly fear the resurgence of a Fourth Reich even if Germany were to reunify...