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67 CSG Archives, SVB Fund, 43.104.205.399, File 656, SVB to Albert B., 5 February 1987; the
increase in costs between 1960 and 1987 corresponded to the fall in the value of money in
Switzerland; at the same time the dollar, as relevant currency for many claimants, dropped to less
than half of its value against the franc and the costs rose considerably.
68 ICEP, Report, 1999, p. 95.
69 ICEP, Report, 1999, p. 10.
70 UBS Archives, SBG Fund, 12000003741, «Umsatzlose Konti/Depots verstorbener Kunden;
Verrechnung von Spesenforderungen, Saldierung», 1 October 1987; «Liquidierung von ganz alten
Dossiers bei SVZE durch SVZE-VAR (Dr. V.)», 9 October 1986 (original German).
71 Article 4 of Federal Decree 984 on Historical and Legal Investigation of the Fate of the Assets and
Properties which found their way to Switzerland as a Result of the Nazi Regime, 13 December 1996
(AS 1996, p. 3487).
72 UBS Archives, SBV Fund, 1000, Case U. A., Federal Banking Commission to SBC MD, 12 June
1990.
73 UBS Archives, SBV Fund, 1000, Case U. A., «Strafanzeige gegen U.A.?», undated.
74 UBS Archives, SBG Fund, 12000003024, «Exposé zur Frage der erblosen oder nicht disponiblen
jüdischen Vermögen in der Schweiz», 16 May 1946, p. 2 (original German).
75 Cf. Hug/Perrenoud, Vermögenswerte, 1997.
76 CSG Archives, SKA Fund, 11.105.208.301, SC 2052, SBA Circular No. 90 D (copy), 13 July 1955.
77 BBl 1962/I, p. 936 (original German).
78 Bonhage/Lussy/Perrenoud, Vermögen, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), p. 119.
79 Cf. Picard, Switzerland, 1993, p. 9.
80 BBl 1962/I, p. 933 (original German).
81 This is how the Federal Council summarised the situation in its Message of 1962, see also BBl
1962/I, p. 934 (original German).
82 In particular Vischer, Handel, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), chapter C.II.1.
83 UBS Archives, SBG Fund, 12000003018, «Notiz über die Besprechung in Bern beim Eidgenössischen
Politischen Departement vom Dienstag, den 10. Januar 1950, betreffend herrenlose Güter,
die bei schweizerischen Banken verwaltet werden», 10 January 1950 (original German).
84 See also the case of Arthur D., Bonhage/Lussy/Perrenoud, Vermögen, 2001 (Publications of the ICE),
chapter 8.3.2.
85 It is only since the introduction of money-laundering legislation with the Federal law of
23 March 1990 and the Federal law of 18 March 1994 that banks have been obliged and entitled to
ask for details of the beneficial owner of the assets.
86 UBS Archives, SBG Fund, 12000007141, «Rapport, Isak C. und Frau Lida C.», undated (original
German).
87 Bonhage/Lussy/Perrenoud, Vermögen, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), p. 310.
88 ICEP, Report 1999, p. 69. The figure of 53,866 accounts, as published by the ICEP, has since been
amended by final figures: following the work of the arbitration tribunal only 36,132 accounts in
ICEP categories 1–4 are left which have a possible or probable link to victims of National Socialism.
89 UBS Archives, SBV Fund, no reference, SBC to Hans H., 7 February 1997 (original German).
90 These were: Lutherstrasse 30, Kurfürstenstrasse 88, and Viktoriastrasse 33.
91 Swiss Re Archives, File: «Verkauf des Anker durch die Schweizer Rück, Korrespondenz 1938–1943,
Besprechungen in Zürich, der Anker, Wien», 25 February 1943 (original German).
92 BGHZ, Vol. 6, p 34.
93 Rentenanstalt Archives, File emigrant insurance II, memo from Basler Leben dated 30 June 1945.
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