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12 It is symptomatic in this context that the author of one of the few depictions that deals with this
question, Alfred A. Häsler, is not a historian. Cf. Häsler, Boot, 1967.
13 Cf. section 3.2.
14 Bloch, Apologie, 1985, p. 53; Bloch himself took part in the resistance and was shot by the Germans
in 1944. See also Friedländer, Kantorowicz, 1999.
15 Both Durrer, Finanzbeziehungen 1984, and Castelmur, Finanzbeziehungen, 1992, overlook this
fact.
16 BBl 1962/I, 936.
17 Wegmüller, Brot, 1998; Tanner, Bundeshaushalt, 1986.
18 Wegmüller, Brot, 1998; Däniker, Dissuasion, 1996.
19 The terms «adaptation» and «resistance» were popularised in the book by Alice Meyer (Meyer,
Anpassung, 1965); however they were already used at that time.
20 See Ludwig, Flüchtlingspolitik, 1957.
21 Zala, Geschichte, 2001.
22 Bonjour, Neutralität, vols. IV–VI, 1970; see also the critique by Niklaus Meienberg: Meienberg,
Aufforderung, 1972.
23 Refers to a petition submitted to the authorities in 1940 calling for a pro-German slant in journalistic
reporting; cf. chapter 2.3; see also Waeger, Sündenböcke, 1967.
24 For the state of research achieved by the mid-1990s, cf. Kreis/Müller, Schweiz, 1997; an overview
of the subjects dealt with and the dynamics of the debate is given in: Kreis, Debatten, 1997,
pp. 451–476.
25 See also the research overview in ICE, Goldtransaktionen, 2002 (Publications of the ICE).
26 Picard, Assets, 1993.
27 Hug/Perrenoud, Vermögenswerte, 1997.
28 Eizenstat, Efforts, 1997.
29 The first Eizenstat Report published in May 1997 developed a critical view: «Switzerland figures
prominently in any history of the fate of Nazi gold and other assets during and after World War II
because the Swiss were the principal bankers and financial brokers for the Nazis». (Eizenstat,
Efforts,1997, p. iii). In 2001 Eizenstat toned down some of the charges he made against Switzerland
in an interview. Cf. interview in Cash, no. 17, 27 April 2001.
30 Eizenstat, Efforts, 1997, Conclusions.
31 Thürer, Völkerrecht, 2000, pp. 557–604, with reference to the management of the Nazi (in)justice
system as the starting point for a changing legal structure.
32 Naucke, Privilegierung, 1996.
33 Cf. Publications of the ICE, vol. 18 and 19.
34 See Jacques Picard, Forschung zwischen politischem und wissenschaftlichem Anspruch, in: Neue
Zürcher Zeitung, 28 October 1997; for a more detailed version see the same, in: Sarasin/Wecker,
Raubgold, 1998, pp. 169–181.
35 See König, Interhandel, 2001 (Publications of the ICE); chapters 4.12; 6.7.
36 A reliable study is now available for Credit Suisse: Halbeisen, Schriftgutverwaltung, 1999.
37 AS 1996, 3487.
38 Swiss Federal Archives, SVSt Archives. Locations and Transmission of files. Report in the possession
of the ICE, 8 June 1998; the so-called «Rees Report» is an auditors report that was blocked for a
long time and which dates from early 1946. It deals with the question of a continual German control
over the IG Chemie holding company (later Interhandel); the ICE was able to inspect the report,
and in autumn 2001 the Swiss Federal Council waived the block.
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