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Your report about Switzerland and the part it played with Holocaust gold shows us Swiss citizens that we are not as special as we sometimes believe, nor are we better than the rest of the world. We are responsible for our share of the guilt and we must carry it. But if any person is without sin, let him throw the first stone. Fifty years after the end of the war, the veil of secrecy is finally being lifted. And it is not only the Swiss who are looking for fame, power and money. LOUIS NIEDERER Winterthur, Switzerland...
...gold in question is not Nazi gold. It belongs to the Jewish people whom the Nazis so inhumanely slaughtered. I trust honorable people worldwide will pressure the Swiss to quickly and equitably right this injustice. ED COLBERT Topsfield, Massachusetts...
Your article was a character assassination of the Swiss people. Some people may have disputes with Swiss banks, but I cannot accept the tarnishing of the national character of an entire country. I am reminded of President James Madison's words: "Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations." CHRISTIAN D. DE FOULOY Richmond, Virginia...
Although Jewish groups may be justified in their campaign to recover funds from Swiss banks, their harsh tactics are breeding a new feeling of anti-Semitism. Dredging up the past and trying to forget it are both dangerous. KRYSTIAN DOMARADZKI Chicago...
Every country in the world has parts of its past that it would like to forget (for the U.S. it is the enslavement of an entire race, for South Africa the same crime), but it seems as if the Swiss think they should be excluded from international condemnation simply because they bought their way out of World War II. We should all recognize our crimes against the Jews and focus on teaching our children how to avoid spreading the ignorance that was rampant in the early days of the century. APRIL D. REAGAN Apex, North Carolina...