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70 After the «Anschluss», Austria became subject to the German legislation on foreign currencies. The
«Foreign Currency Law for Austria» of 23 March 1938 thus forced all residents (so-called currency
residents) to declare the assets and shares they held outside the country. Subsequently all Austrian
clients, including many Jews as well, had to transfer the assets they owned that were managed by
Swiss banks to German or former Austrian banks. See also Bonhage/Lussy/Perrenoud, Nachrichtenlose
Vermögen, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), section 3.3.
71 With reference to what follows, see Haldemann, Schutz, 2001 (Publications of the ICE).
72 The quotations given in the following paragraph are from the notes on the meeting written by
S. Mayer and P. Guggenheim. AfZ, SFJC, collection of files on legal protection afforded to Swiss
Jews, file on the order for German Jews to declare their assets, respectively its validity for Swiss Jews
living abroad, fascicle «Besprechung im Bundeshaus». See also Haldemann, Schutz, 2001 (Publications
of the ICE).
73 UEK, Flüchtlinge, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), section 3.1; see also chapter 3 included herein.
74 FA, E 1004.1 (-) 413, minutes of the Federal Council of 29 September 1941, no. 1502; see also
Haldemann, Schutz, 2001 (Publications of the ICE).
75 Spuhler/Jud/Melichar/Wildmann, «Arisierungen», 2002 (Publications of the ICE).
76 FA, E 2001 (C) -/4, vol. 130, Bonna to the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, 4 December 1935 (original
German). With reference to the Porges case see Haldemann, Schutz, 2001 (Publications of the ICE).
77 A first basic investigation on the repatriation of Swiss people living abroad was made by Winiger,
Auslandschweizer, 1991. For analyses of individual cases see Perrenoud, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1999;
Speck, Entrechtungsschäden, 1998. See also Ludi/Speck, Victims, 2001.
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