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25 On the «Red House» conference, which was mentioned primarily in GDR literature, see Eichholtz,
Reichsministerium, 1975; early scepticism in: Schumann, Überlebensstrategie, 1979; a convincing
interpretation in Roth, Vorbereitung, 1996, p. 656 and note 189.
26 A fertile German source on post-war planning by German businesses is Roth, Vorbereitung, 1996.
27 Some systematic data on the extent of the trade in banknotes can be found in
Perrenoud/López/Adank/Baumann/Cortat/Peters, Place financière, 2002 (Publications of the ICE),
section 4.2.
28 Quoted from DDS, vol. 14, p. 1226; see also Perrenoud, Diplomatie, 1999, pp. 422f.
29 On the situation in March 1945, when a report records that the trade increased sharply following
the ban, see Perrenoud, Diplomatie, 1999, p. 423.
30 ICEP, Report, 1999, pp. 103f.
31 See Jung, Kreditanstalt, 2000, pp. 84f.; this gives details of thirteen suspicious accounts, but since
then the bank has been able to confirm the identity of another account-holder (a defendant in the
Flick trial). This account was opened after the war, and so has little effect on the picture painted in
the publication.
32 For details see Uhlig/Barthelmess/König/Pfaffenroth/Zeugin, Tarnung, 2001 (Publications of the
ICE), section 4.4.
33 Reference had already been made to the Swiss bank accounts held by these two people in Durrer,
Finanzbeziehungen, 1984, p. 247.
34 On the role of the embassy in Istanbul as a centre for the German gold trade, see Steinberg, Deutsche
Bank, 2000, pp. 46ff.
35 Balzli, Treuhänder, 1997, p. 236, already referred to this case.
36 But there was a life insurance policy which had been annulled back in the early 1930s; see section 4.6
included herein.
37 See Bonhage/Lussy/Perrenoud, Vermögen, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), p. 59, which records a
reduction of around 40% in the account monies identified, in 1943–1945. A single case, namely
the withdrawal of money belonging to Oeding, and its transfer to the lawyer Wilhelm Frick, is
documented in Bonhage, Bodenkreditanstalt, 2001 (Publications of the ICE).
38 Ludwig, Flüchtlingspolitik, 1957, p. 315.
39 It was not possible to work on all interesting cases; the career of Paul Dickopf, who arrived in
Switzerland in 1942, is notable. He claimed to be an opponent of Nazism but was more likely a Nazi
agent; Cf. Huonker/Ludi, Roma, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), p. 96.
40 There still is a company of the same name in Switzerland, now based in Zug, but this does not have
any connection with the original establishment. Imfeld, who founded this company, must have
separated from his German partners before 1960; in 1980 he sold the company shell to a foreign
industrial group; for more details, see Uhlig/Barthelmess/König/Pfaffenroth/Zeugin, Tarnung,
2001 (Publications of the ICE), section 11.4.
41 See the list in the Annex to Inglin, Krieg, 1991, pp. 323ff.
42 Ritzmann, Statistik, 1996, p. 871.
43 See the statements made by Kurt von Krüger of IG Farben, Nuremberg Affidavit, July 1947,
printed in König, Interhandel, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), Annex 3, Document No. 15a.
44 NARA, RG 239, Roberts Commission, Entry 10, Box 24, 350/77/1/02, Folder German economic
penetration in Switzerland, undated report by Nicholas Milroy, Department of State, p. 27.
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