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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...
...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...
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...
...BERN, Switzerland: In a proposal that should please Jewish advocates without satisfying them, Swiss president Arnold Koller asked Parliament to establish a $5 billion fund to aid, among others, victims of the Holocaust and their families. The Swiss Foundation for Solidarity, to be set up in the coming year, would use proceeds from Swiss gold reserves that could produce several hundred million dollars a year, all while avoiding the use of Swiss taxpayers' money, an idea that is anathema to many conservatives. But Koller was careful to characterize the fund as a broad humanitarian measure--not a reparation. The money...
Last month Barnevik gave up the title of chief executive officer he had held since he created ABB in 1988 by fusing Sweden's Asea with Switzerland's BBC Brown Boveri. Though he will remain a strong presence at ABB, the move will give him time to preach his gospel of East-West economic cooperation to skeptical politicians, labor leaders and business executives. "This is something very close to my heart," he says. "If we can combine the low wages in the East with the high skills in the West, we can revitalize Europe." Barnevik believes the West...