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...little frightening that human beings are still so fond of black-and-white pictures, the binary digits 0 and 1 or the good guy and the bad guy. What technology achieved with fuzzy logic several years ago still seems to be the exception for human judgment. The Swiss are the same human beings as the Germans, the French or the Americans. They are not angels, but they are not devils either. Maybe everyone should start to think in shades of gray. STEPHAN LOEB Binningen, Switzerland...
...Some Swiss like the proverb that says the way you shout something into the forest is the way it will come back to you. So if you want someone to be cooperative, you have to show the same spirit. No aggression, no hostility. If World Jewish Congress head Edgar Bronfman had followed this behavior, maybe the Swiss would move mountains and perhaps even offer him a chair. CATRINA DENKER Zurich...
During the war, there were also ordinary, humanely acting Swiss citizens. I was one of 28,000 Jewish refugees saved in Switzerland, although not through any act of mercy of Swiss government policies. My family and I started our flight from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in July 1942. We traveled through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vichy France and the Alps. One September noon, not knowing that Swiss border guards were on watch with binoculars to catch border-crossing refugees, we tumbled down into Switzerland. Right there, a mountain-stalking Swiss family from Champery stumbled onto us. They told us about...
...ashamed to admit that I do not remember the name of the family. I never saw them again. Now, so many years later, and in sharp contrast to the revelations about the Swiss government's acts and attitudes, I want to thank and salute that wonderful Swiss family for their courageous behavior in saving one bunch of shabby refugees from being thrown into the darkness of the Final Solution. JESHA SHAPIR Tel Aviv
...assets and laundered money. It is the conflict between neutrality and moral integrity. My family was German, anti-Nazi and somewhat linked to the assassination attempt on Hitler. In July 1944 they had no other choice than to flee to Switzerland and seek refuge with relatives. Big surprise: the Swiss authorities accepted the four children in the family but turned back the five adults, who were caught, delivered to the Gestapo and imprisoned. When the U.S. Army closed in on Germany, my father succeeded in escaping, but other family members, along with other prisoners, were shot. You mentioned that...