Reddit reviews The Swiss, The Gold And The Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine

I thought it was almost universally understood by now how Switzerland was a little evil bastard during WW2 and helped Nazi Germany. Most likely it was even worse than is already known, given the famous Swiss secrecy.

http://archive.adl.org/braun/dim_14_1_neutrality_europe.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings/sinister.html

http://www.amazon.com/The-Swiss-Gold-And-Dead/dp/0151003343

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1887789.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/26/weekinreview/the-not-so-neutrals-of-world-war-ii.html

http://articles.latimes.com/1997-01-13/news/mn-18207_1_swiss-banks

http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-11/opinion/op-57669_1_swiss-banks

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/swiss-and-hitler.html

http://articles.philly.com/1997-05-08/news/25563686_1_reichsbank-neutral-countries-gold-and-other-assets

http://forward.com/articles/208252/switzerland-begins-to-confront-its-own-holocaust-p/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/23/humanities.research

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/report--swiss-violated-neutrality--funded-nazis/2218554

They financed the in a big way Nazis, but obviously not all of their operation:

https://www.amazon.com/Swiss-Gold-Dead-Bankers-Finance/dp/0151003343

The US hired thousands of war criminals. Tens of thousands more in West Germany were permitted in receive show trials where they received minutes in prison for every murder. The C.I.A. preferred to use intelligence assets on the ground even if they were sympathetic Nazis and the state department found it easier to rebuild West Germany with the most competent people the Germans had. Which many had committed war crimes but it was a more pragmatic decision not to investigate to deeply because they were our allies now on the front line of the cold war. There was never a mass execution of the guilty, only a few show trials of top political figures and a few camp workers. The vast majority of war criminals and thieves received light sentences or none. Stolen European gold and wealth was allowed to be repatriated to rebuild West Germany and build up
switzerland.


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The Swiss, The Gold, and the Dead