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To allow our employees time to prepare for the Thanksgi";ng holiday, and
to awid traffic congestion in the Washington area, the Commission's
offices will close today at 2:00 p.m.
Please have a happy and safe holiday. One ofthe things I will be
thankful for this Thanksgi";ng is the hard and dedicated work all of you
continue to do on behalf of our mission.
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�Several additional items to consider. .
The Vienna archives contain documents pertaining to Austrian monitoring of US misappropriations 0 believe that similar
documents are in Salzburg).
In Ludwigsburg, Germany, one can find the records ofthe Office for Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes.
Personnel:
well-heeled consultants to assign complex research and analysis tasks. (here, I have people like Dr. Sybil Milton in mind.
Her intimate knowledge of the ,",ctirns' assets issue is overwhelming. She is the kind of person with whom you get more than
your money's worth, because she has the distinction of being THOROUGH and EXHAUS1lVE in her research).
That's all for now. I am unsure how my e-mails were greeted today. But I hope that they will be taken seriously.
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HiToday's assets-related news:
Hungarian Jewry on French "Gold Train"
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Bonn Talks (6 articles)
Column: Deutsche Bank Rector was welcomed in Israel
Cali vs. Insurers (2 articles)
Hitler Race Project Records Revealed
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Source: AP Wor1dstream
November 17, 1999; Wednesday 11 :27 Eastern lime
SECllON: International news
HEADLINE: Hungarian Jewish leader claims French may have mishandled
Nazi-loot
BYLINE: EVA KEKES
DATELINE: BUDAPEST, Hungary
BODY:
A leading Hungarian rabbi claimed Wednesday he has uncovered
e\4dence that
French troops stationed in Austria after Wor1d War II may have
mishandled two
carriages laden with gold and diamonds confiscated from Hungarian Jews
by the
Nazis.
According to documents uncovered by Peter Feldmajer in the Budapest
Jewish
Archives, two wagons from a train containing confiscated Jewish
valuables were
found in the French zone of Austria after the war's end.
'111e train was almost totally cleaned out by the time it was
discovered, but
in one carriage there were 36 cases of gold and 12 kilograms (26
pounds) of
diamonds and they remained under French guard." Feldmajer, the former
president
ofthe Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, told The Associated
Press.
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French Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman DaVid Martinon said on
Wednesday in
Paris he had heard nothing, knew nothing about French soldiers
allegedly .
participating in such a train theft.
Feldmajer cited an Allied Powers inventory of the train by Istvan
Revesz, a
representative of the Hungarian Jewish community who took part along
with the
Americans, British and French in documenting the contents ofthe two
carriages.
According to a recent report in Budapest's HVG weekly, the two
carriages were
originally part of a Hungarian gold-train seized by the U.S. infantry
on May 16,
1945 nine days after the Allied Victory in Europe in Werfen, Austria,
south of
Salzburg.
For unknown reasons, the Nazi officer in charge of the train detached
the two
carriages and directed them towards Innsbruck in western Austria, which
became
the French zone, the weekly said.
Last month, the U.S. Presidential AdVisor Commission of Holocaust
Assets
released a report on the Hungarian gold train found in the U.S. sector
in
Werfen, admitting that American generals took valuables from the
carriages, or
turned them over to Austria instead of returning them to the Jews.
Gabor Sebes, an office manager of the Hungarian Jewish Heritage Fund
in
Budapest, confirmed that some of the treasures wound up in the French
zone. He
said the French had at the time approached the Hungarian government on
the
return of the valuables.
But Feldmajer claims the inventory!ls the last known trace of the
gold and
diamonds and their fate since has been unclear _ except that the
treasures have
never been returned to Hungary's Jews.
"Probably the American example will help the French to also examine
their
conscience," Sebes said. 'We have no information about a French
committee but
if our research here brings out new results, we may be sending out
memos to them
and possibly to other governments, too."
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http://WVINJ.nytimes.coml99/11/18/news/wor1d/nazi-slave-labor.html.
The New York limes- November 18, 1999
Talks on Paying Nazi-Era Slaves Tum Sour
By ROGER COHEN
BERLIN - A mood of exasperation gripped German industry Wednesday after
an additional offer to compensate Nazi-era slave laborers failed to
settle a negotiation that began with lofty moral sentiments but has
descended into ugly haggling.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat said the two days of talks in
Bonn constituted the most constructi\A3 of six rounds of negotiations and
had brought the two sides within range of each other around a sum of 10
billion marks, or $5.55 billion.
But the chief financial officer of DaimlerChrysler, Manfred Gentz, said
,the talks were undermined by "lawyers for the victims, who continue to
talk about sums that nobody else finds constructi\A3," adding that the
new proposal was 8 billion marks, or $4.44 billion, and could "not be
raised any higher."
That sum, made up of 5 billion marks from German companies and 3 billion
from the govemment, represents an increase of 1 billion marks, or $555
million, with the extra money coming from the country's leading
corporations.
The confusion over figures stemmed from the fact that although U.S.
officials and plaintiffs' lawyers characterized the new proposal as in a
range from $3.3 billion to $5.55 billion, German officials and
industrialists insisted that $4.44 billion was the amount proposed, and
not a cent more.
The failure to reach an agreement arose despite a letter that President
Clinton sent Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Saturday that urged
flexibility. The letter, the president's second such communication,
reflected the importance ofthe talks to relations between Germany and
the United States.
Eizenstat said he would meet German mediators in the United States at
the end of next week. A further session may be held in Washington in the
, middle of next month. But German industry has made it clear that it will
attend only if the clear outline of a settlement already exists.
Since World War II, the German govemment has paid $80 billion in war
reparations, mostly to Jews who survived concentration camps or fled
Germany.
But no significant compensation has previously been offered to forced
laborers, generally non-Jews deported to Germany from Central European
countries, or to slave laborers, who were put to work in concentration
camps and were mainly Jewish.
Those two groups would be cO\A3red by the German fund, which would be
distributed to survivors, who are now elderly. Germans estimate the
number of people in both categories at 800,000. But piaintiffs'lawyers
ha\A3 suggested much higher numbers.
Leading German companies fear a backlash against their businesses in the
United States ifthe talks break down.
"Eight billion marks is the offer, 5 billion of which will come from
German industry on the condition that no other lawsuits be filed against
German firms," the chief German mediator, Otto Lambsdorff, said. "We are
not dealing with small sums of money here. The 10 billion to 15 billion
marks proposed by United States lawyers is unrealistic."
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�Eizenstat said he had to battle long and hard to persuade plaintiffs'
lawyers, including Edward Fagan, to lower their proposals from "well
above" the range of 10 billion to 15 billion marks. The higher demands,
Eizenstat added, might have led to a complete breakdown in the talks.
Eizenstat added that "a negotiated settlement now seems attainable." But
he conceded that bridging the remaining differences would be extremely
difficult and that the mood of German industry was now one of "real
exasperation. "
At a time when Schroeder is trying to push through unpopular budget cuts
of 30 billion marks, the government offer of 3 billion marks appears to
be an extraordi nary ex pression of its desi re to enter the next century
with the last major Holocaust-related negotiation behind it.
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Germans Up Offer to Nazis' Slave Laborers
Surv;vors Would Receive Over $5 Billion From Govemment, Industry Under
Settlement
By William Drozdiak
Washington Post Foreign Serv;ce
Thursday, November 18, 1999; Page A36
BERUN, Nov. 17-Negotiators seeking to draw up a compensation fund for.
surv;vors of Nazi-era labor camps s'aid today they are close to striking
a deal following a new offer by the German government and leading
industries to contribute more than $5 billion to pay justified claims.
During two days oftalks in Bonn, representatives ofthe government and
more than 50 companies said they are now willing to spend as much as
$5.3 billion to compensate up to 2.3 million people-mainly from central
and Eastern Europe-who were forced to work in German factories during
World War II.
Class action lawyers representing the IActims, meanwhile, have scaled
down their demands by half to between $5.3 billion and $7.9 billion.
Before this week's negotiations began, the lawyers had raised the ante,
threatening to walk out of the talks and instigate a boycott of German
companies.
Stuart Eizenstat, the U.S. deputy treasury secretary who is leading the
American delegation, noted that positions between the two sides had
narrowed significantly. For the first time since discussions opened more
than a year ago, he said, "a negotiated settlement now seems attainable"
because there are proposals on the table "which actually touch each
other."
"We are now so close that it is critical for all sides to make the last
steps necessary to reach agreement," Eizenstat said. "I want to urge all
participants to reflect on how far we have come and what the
consequences would be if we do not succeed,"
. Since the war, Germany has paid about $60 billion in reparations,
pensions and other benefits to Holocaust IActims, many of whom live in
Israel. But surv;vors from forced- and slave-labor camps did not receive
compensation, because they were unable to press indi'..1dual claims while
lilAng Under postwar Communist govemments in Eastern Europe.
Eizenstat insisted that, for the sake of these '..1ctims, whose average
age is 80, the talks must not be allowed to fail. "These slave and
forced laborers deserve a small measure of justice in the few years
remaining in their lives," he said..
A collapse in the negotiations also threatened to damage German-American
relations. For months, lawyers for the '..1ctims have vowed to carry out
boycotts and litigation against German companies that do business in the
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United States unless they agreed to payments that would amount to more
than $20 billion.
Otto Lambsdorff, the German govemment envoy, called the lawyers'
demands "absurd and unrealistic." But he also pressed German companies
to improve their offer or face a flurry of lawsuits in the United States
that would destroy their hopes of doing business in one of their most
lucrative markets.
Under the terms of a proposed settlement, German companies would gain
the legal peace they are seeking because the U.S. government would
ad"';se American courts not to take action against German firms once the
fund is created. Unless they gained such immunity, German companies
wamed, they would be forced to cover only selective lawsuits, lea"';ng
as many as a million former forced laborers without benefits.
The class action lawyers, most of whom are American, said they had
drastically reduced their demands after coming under intense pressure
from Israeli and Eastem European governments to show greater
flexibility so a compromise could be reached before many ofthe
plaintiffs die.
But Edward Fagan, one of the leading lawyers for the people who have
sued German companies for compensation, said while both sides were
"getting close on the number," there were still profound disagreements
on how the money would be allocated among slave laborers who toiled in
concentration camps and forced laborers who worked in various wartime
industries.
Lambsdorff and Eizenstat said that consultations would continue in hopes
of sealing a final settlement at the next session, which will probably
take place in Washington early next month.
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http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q2deb02.htm
Financial limes (London)
** Note - this online version of this article has a slightly more
optimistic tone than the US print version, and aslo omits the possible
Dec 8 date for talks to reconvene **
Thursday November 18 1999
World News / Europe
GERMANY: Optimism seen at forced labour talks·
By Haig Simonian in Bonn
GermanyThe two leading figures negotiating compensation for Nazi-era
forced labourers will today try to enlist the support of Germany's
president in a push to finalise negotiations.
Stuart Eizenstat, US deputy Treasury secretary, and Otto Graf
Lambsdorff, the German government's special negotiator, will tell
President Johannes Rau that they are cautiously optimistic after German
companies yesterday raised their compensation offer by DM1bn (£330m) to
DMSbn.·
The improvement, which followed a DM1 bn increase this week in the amount
offered by the Berlin government, takes the combined German offer to
DM8bn,. significantly narrowing the gap between the parties and
suggesting an agreement may be reached by the December 31 deadline.
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�"This is the first time one can see an agreement is attainable," said Mr
Eizenstat. "I am cautiously optimistic," said Gra1Lambsdorff, who
indicated Germany was negotiating an offer of between DM6bn and DM10bn.
The DM10bn upper figure is the minimum being demanded by a group of
independent lawyers threatening class action lawsuits against German
companies in the US courts if an agreement is not reached.
At talks in Bonn yesterday, the lawyers reduced their demands to a range
of DM10bn to DM1Sbn, marking the first time the proposals from the two
formerly deeply div;ded - sides had overlapped in months of intensive
negotiations.
Mr Eizenstat and Graf Lambsdorff are.expected to try to persuade Mr Rau
to use his influence with the Berlin government and German industry to
improve their offers further now that an agreement is within sight.
In public, both govemment and industry representatives have said firmly
that they would nolgo higher. However, officials believe the closeness
of a settlement and the damage that would be caused by failure on both
commercial and political relations between Germany and the US may prompt
them to reconsider.
The attempt to persuade more German companies to contribute to a
settlement, in the form of a special foundation, received a big boost·
yesterday after negotiators agreed that German companies would not face
further legal action in the US courts once a deal was struck - one of
their key requirements.
The agreement on "legal closure" marked a significant advance and was "a
step that is unprecedented in US legal history", according to Mr
Eizenstat.
After consulting with the German president, Mr Eizenstat and Graf
Lambsdorffwill meet again in Washington on Friday.
They have proposed a three-week pause in the negotiations to allow all
sides to take stock and reconsider their position.
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Thursday November 18 8:07 AM ET
<;3ermany Warns No Rise in Holocaust Offer
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany warned on Thursday against putting more
pressure on industry to raise its share of compensation to Nazi-era
forced laborers after an eight billion mark ($4.3 billion) offer was
rejected on Wednesday.
Otto Lambsdorff, the government's top negotiator, said companies had
pledged five billion marks and would have difficulty raising even that
much.
Lambsdorff, who in the past sharply criticised the fillils for their
reluctance to raise their offer, said the latest bid could not be
improved and it was time to take it or leave it.
"I would urge against raising the pressure on the companies to pay
more," Lambsdorfftold German Radio. "An impressive sum has been
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�raised. The pressure on the companies was considerable. Their
willingness has risen. But it can' go any higher."
The new offer is two billion marks above one made at similar talks in
Washington six weeks ago. It includes five billion marks from a
foundation of some 50 German companies and three billion marks from the
federal government.
Thousands of German companies used forced and slave laborers during
World War Two.
Some lawyers said they would be seeking between 10 billion and 15
billion marks over the next three weeks compared with original demands
more than $20 billion.
No Chance Of Further Rise
Wolfgang Gibowski, spokesman for the German companies, said there was no
chance the offer would be raised.
"It would be a disgrace to waste this chance," Gibowski told WDR
radio. "These SUn.1wrs are very old and this money could do a lot of
good very quickly. Anyone thwarting this by attempting to bargain for
another five marks is making a huge mistake."
But Hans Jochen Vogel, the former chairman of Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder's Social Democrats and a wcal critic of industry, said firms
could afford to pay more to the SUn.1wrs.
"There are hundreds, if not thousands, of companies that have been
hesitant," Vogel toidSWR radio. "It's time to appeal to them to come
forward. And if that happens, it would be quite possible to raise 10
billion marks."
Lambsdorlf said German industry could not afford that.
"A figure (of 10 billion marks) is inconceivable for us," he said.
"That is too high. We will need to get more firms inwlved in order to
even get this amount of five billion marks."
Lambsdorlf said negotiators would spend the next three weeks in talks
and hoped a deal could be completed by a December 8 deadline, but he
wamed that the talks which have already been extended several times
could still end in failure.
"A collapse is still possible. I'm cautiously optimistic."
100 Billion Marks Profits
The compensation talks ended with no deal on Wednesday despite the
raised offer of eight billion marks.
"It's embarrassing," said Michel Friedman, a leader ofthe Central
Council of Jews in Germany. He said the German companies were acting in
a "small-minded" way.
German companies had nearly 100 billion marks in net profits in 1997,
according to latest data from the central bank.
The five billion marks put on the tabl,e by industry was offered on
condition that firms get a guarantee against further lawsuits and are
allowed three to four months to collect the money from the fund members.
Lawyers and SUn.1wrs' groups said the new offer, while not high enough,
made them optimistic a deal could be reached by the end of the year that
would release payments to up to 2.3 million forced and slave laborers
around the world by next spring,
Stuart Eizenstat, the U.S. deputy treasury secretary leading the U.S.
side in the talks, said that he wanted a deal completed by the end of
the year.
"All the parties have recognized that, but there is a need to show more
flexibility in order to reach this goal," he toldZDF tele\1sion. ','It' .
would be a tragedy if the talks failed."
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November 18, 1999
Germans Make Final Nazi Labor Offer
Filed at 10:40 a.m. EST
By Bert Herman liThe Associated Press
BONN, Germany (AP) - After raising its offer this week, a spokesman for
German industry said today it would not come up with any more money to
compensate Nazi-era slave and forced laborers.
"The end ofthe flagpole has been reached," Wolfgang Gibowski told
German radio. "And we also are not planning any further negotiating
rounds."
Two days of negotiations on the fund wrapped up Wednesday in Bonn with
the sides closer but still without agreement.
Germany offered $4.2 billion in compensation - an increase from its
ear1ier $3.2 billion offer - and numbers of up to $5.3 billion were
discussed.
The higher figure touches the lower range of the newly reduced demands
oh1ctims' lawyers for between $5.3 billion and $7.9 billion, and there
had been optimism that an agreement might be reached.
"A negotiated settlement now seems attainable," U.S. government envoy
Stuart Eizenstat said before Giboswki's comments. "The two sides have
narrowed their differences."
The sides agreed to mull over the offers during the next three weeks,
although Gibowski stressed today that the businesses would not come up
with anything more. German enltOy Otto Lambsdorffwas to meet with
Eizenstat next week in Washington.
One reason the sides can' simply agree on $5.3 billion is that they
have different ideas as to what it should cover. The companies want
complete legal immunity from all future claims relating to World War II
actions for that figure, while victims' lawyers say it could only cover
compensation for slave and forced laborers.
Lawyer Edward Fagan said the companies would have to pay an amount at
the higher end oftheir range to get the broad legal protection that
they want, including the settlementofunpaid insurance claims and bank
accounts seized by the Nazis.
"The more claims they want included and the more protection they want,
the further up the scale they have to go," he said.
All parties to the talks have acknowledged the urgent need to resolve
the issue - the victims have an average age of 80, and 10 percent of
them die each year, Eizenstat said.
A German Jewish leader, Michel Friedman. criticized the delay and blamed
German industry for "unbearable and incomprehensible" behavior.
Lambsdorff said the current $4.2 billion offer would be made up of $1.6
billion from government and the rest from industry.
Manfred Gentz. chief financial officer at DaimlerChrysler, said it would
take "at least three to four months" to raise the money from German
firms once the final amount is agreed.
Fagan said the lawyers drastically reduced their demands because some of
the groups representing laborers - which include Eastern European
governments, Israel and Jewish groups - had shown a willingness to
accept a smaller offer.
German companies proposed the compensation fund in February under
pressure of class-action lawsuits in the United States. As part of the
agreement, the U.S. government has offered to file statements of
interest in courts where lawsuits are filed recommending that judges
turn the cases over to the foundation.
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�About 50 firms, including 18 that ha~ publicly stated their support,
ha~ signed on to contribute to the fund, which aims to compensate about
1.5 million to 2.3 million "';ctims.
Mannesmann AG, an engineering and telecommunications group currently
fighting a takeover attempt by Britain's Vodafone AirTouch, became the
latest company to say it would join the fund .
. The "';ctims include about 235,000 slave laborers, or people who were
expected to be worked to death in concentration camps, and hundreds of
thousands of other forced laborers, mostly non-Jews from Eastem Europe.
Although Germany has already made about $60 billion in payments,
pensions and other programs for war crimes, there has ne~r been
compensation for the estimated 12 million people put to work to help
Nazi Germany's war effort.
Participants in the talks include the German and U.S. go~rnments,·
class-action lawyers, German industry, Jewish groups, Israel, Ukraine,
Poland, Russia, Belarus and the Czech Republic.
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Source: Voice of America
http://www.hri.org/news/usa/voa/1999/99-11-17.voa.htmI#02
[02] GERMANY I SLAVE LABOR (L ONLY) BY JONAlHAN BRAUDE (BERLIN)
DATE=11/17/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-256272
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
11111 RE-PRINllNG TO CORRECT GARBLE IN INTRO. 11111
INTRO: Negotiators are moving closer to agreement on compensating the
victims ofthe Nazi sla~ labor program. Jonathan Braude in Berlin says
negotiators reported progress after German industry raised its offer of
compensation by an additional 550-million dollars.
TEXT: The German go~rnment raised its contribution Monday. German
industry matched the govemment's mo~ during talks in the former
capital, Bonn. The total being proposed is just more than four- billion
dollars to compensate as many as.possible ofthe sur.,,;ving "';ctims of
the Nazi World-War-Two slave labor policy. And although all sides were
careful to say there is no final agreement, they were also 'eager to
stress an agreement appears close. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart
Eizenstat, -leading t~e U-S team at the negotiations - said German
firms now have a commitment from the U-S govemment and the victims'
lawyers not to pursue legal action for further compensation once a deal
is agreed. And German~ndustry spokesman, Daimler Chrysler finance
director Manfred Gentz, said he is confident the money could be raised
once a deal is finally reached on the exact sum and the promise of legal
closure. He said it would take another three to four-months to get the
cash together so that payments could start to be made. But the
negotiators have given themselves another three-weeks to think matters
o~r. The victims' lawyers and other representatives of former slaves
such as the Jewish Claims Conference and a number of Eastern European
go~rnments - still believe the sum should be increased. And the United
States and the Eastern Europeans want to include former agricultural
laborers whom the German go~rnment has been trying to leave out of the
deal: All sides know time is running out to compensate the "';ctims, who
are mostly in their 80's. But until e~ryone is satisfied, what Deputy
Secretary Eizenstat called a fi nal moral gesture for the end of the 20th
century may have to wait for the beginning of the 21st. (SIGNED)
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The' Jeruslaem Post Columns
Thursday, November 18, 1999 9 Kislev 5760
NOT PAGE ONE:,And then what happened?
By SAM ORBAUM
(November 18)
DELEllA
The column titled "Herr Doktor," about the German doctor who rose to
astonishing heights despite his documented record as a war criminal,
prompted hea"Y response. Zeev Raphael of Haifa recalled the case of an
unpunished Nazi physician being welcomed with honor by Israel.
Dr. Hermann Josef Abs was, according to an official US report in 1946,
"the spiritual rector of the infamous Deutsche Bank ... Abs exerted all
'. his energy to extend the rule of Germany over Europe." Raphael cites
Lord Russell of Liverpool, who wrote in his book Return of the Swastika?
(Robert Hale, London, 1968) that "The [Deutsche] bank ... under Abs was
made responsible for the 'collection of enemy property' which included
all Jewish property in the countries which came under German
occupation." (Lord Russell was appointed in 1946 the legal acMser to
the Commander-in-Chief regarding all trials by British military courts
of German war criminals.) Raphael recalls that "In 1969 this same Dr.
Abs was received with full honors in our country. According to the
Social & Personal column of The Jerusalem Post (January 13, 1969), Abs,
chairman of the board ofthe German Central Bank, arrived 'for a 10-day
private visit.' '
During the following days the Post reported that Abs was wined and dined
by the president, prime minister, the state comptroller, top ministers,
the president of the World Jewish Congress and many others. Raphael
quotes a 1986 article in this newspaper by correspondent Wim van Leer:
"Further to Zeev Raphael's letter about Hermann Abs, his record was well
known to one and all here. But since we hoped to use his influence to
obtain loans and grants from or through him, this was conveniently
ignored and the red carpet rolled out. By the way, the gold fillings
from KZ inmates were stored in the vaults of his bank before being
melted down to ingots."
It is incredible that in this of all countries, inconvenient morality is
so easily sacrificed - even if we have to cozy up to Nazi criminals.
DELEllA
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http://biz.yahoo.comlrf/991117/bg3.html
Wednesday November 17, 10:07 pm Eastern Time
Calif. subpoenas 8 insurance firms over Holocaust
By Michael Kahn
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - A top state official issued subpoenas
on Wednesday to California affiliates of eight European insurance firms
to determine if they intend to comply with a new law requiring them to
reveal names and details of unpaid Holocaust-era policies.
The subpoenas ordered the firms to attend hearings in Los Angeles or'San
Francisco. California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush
threatened last week to rewke the license of any insurance company that
refuses to obey the subpoena or says at the hearings they will not
comply with the law.
The new California law, which goes into effect on April 6, 2000,
requires European insurance firms to publish the names of unpaid
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�Holocaust-era insurance policies or risk losing their licenses to
operate in the state.
"The hearings will further in'v1:lstigate what regulatory steps may be
necessary to ensure swift, detailed and full compliance with the
Holocaust Registry Statutes by insurers," Quackenbush said in the
notice to announce the hearings.
The hearings are scheduled for Dec. 1 in Los Angeles and Dec. 2 in San
Francisco. Among those issued with subpoenas were: Fireman's Fund
Insurance, an affiliate of Allianz AG ; Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A,
the U.S. affiliate of of Generali '; and American Re-Insurance Company,
an affiliate of Munich Re .
. Also subpoenaed were: Fortis Insurance; Gerling American Insurance
Company, an affiliate of Gerling; Peerless Insurance Company; Providence
Washington Insurance Company, an affiliate of Basler
Lebens-Versichergungs-Gesellschaft; and Winterthur International
American Insurance Company, the affiliate of Winterthur, which is part
of Credit Suisse Group.
. Representati'v1:ls from the firms could not be reached for comment.
Quackenbush had threatened to call as many as 15 firms to the hearings
but worked out agreements so that four companies will appear
\IOluntarily, bringing the total to 12, said Dana Spurrier, a spokeswoman
for the insurance commissioner.
"Some of the companies have agreed to \IOlunteer," she said but added a
full list ofthe firms attending would not be available until just
before the hearings.
Quackenbush has been among the most aggressive U.S. state official on
the issue. An intemational commission, headed by former U.S. Secretary
of State Lawrence Eagelburger, is trying to resol'v1:l the question of
unpaid Holocaust-era insurance policies.
California has one of fi'v1:l state insurance officials on the commission,
which also includes representatives of the World Jewish Congress, the
state of Israel and representati'v1:ls of five European insurance
companies.
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=ad;.Jopright_topworld& T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2.=blk&bt=blk&s=d826
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Top World News
Thu, 18 Nov 1999, 12:19pm EST
. Allianz, Fortis, lNG, others Subpoenaed by California in Holocaust
Inquiry
By Samantha Zee
Eight Insurers Subpoenaed Over Nazi-Era Policies (update1)
(Adds details of companies in 3rd paragraph)
Sacramento, California, Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) - Eight
insurers, mostly based in Germany, will be required to appear at
hearings next month in California to provide detailed information
about policy holders for the Holocaust Era Insurance Registry,
the California Department of Insurance said.
The insurers have been targeted by California Insurance
Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, who ordered subpoenas to be
issued to U.S. units of insurers from Germany, Switzerland, Italy
and the Netherlands after months of investigation into companies
that may ha'v1:l a\lOided paying Holocaust SUN\IOr claims.
The insurers include Assicurazioni Generali SpA, Italy's
biggest insurer, Allianz AG, Europe's second-largest insurer, and
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�ING Groep NV, the largest Dutch insurer. Other are Germany's
Gerling Konzern, Munich Re, and Basler Lebens-Versichergungs
Gesellschaft, Belgian-Dutch insurer Fortis, and Switzerland's
Winterthur Insurance Co., which is owned by Credit Suisse Group.
The hearings will beheld in ~os Angeles on Dec. 1 and in
San Francisco on Dec. 2.
Last month, Allianz agreed to have Israel's Yad Vashem
Holocaust archive re",ew the names of about 150,000 World War 11
era policyholders, averting a threatened boycott by Jewish
groups.
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html
Wednesday November 17 7:13 PM ET
Hitler Race Project Records Rewaled
BERLIN (AP) - Records of children born under a Nazi project to breed a
German master race will be opened to the children now trying to track
down their roots, a spokesman from the federal archiws said Wednesday.
A tele'IAsion report said the archives held files of some 1,000 children
born from Adolf Hitler's quest for a race of blond, blue-eyed and tall
Germans. The files could help some identify the parents ofthose
children who did not meet the Nazi racist criteria and were sent to
orphanages, ARD public tele",sion said.
An archives spokesman, Wilhelm Lenz, confirmed thaUhe agency has
records on some of the children, but he said many files were incomplete
and he could not confirm the figure of 1,000.
Under the breeding program known as Lebensborn, or Fount of Life, women
deemed by the Nazis to fit the ideals of the German race were mated with
selected men to "bear a child for the Fuehrer." The mating places were
Officially disguised as maternity homes.
ARD said around 7,000 children were born in the program - although
numbers haw never been wrified.
The tele",sion station, which was to air the program Thursday, said its
reporters discowred the pre'IAously little-known records at the
archives.
Lenz said archive officials had long been aware of the files. But since
they are such a "highly sensitive issue," they have not been open to
the public or media, he said.
If someone wants access to find relatives "they must apply," to do so,
he said.
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November 17, 1999, Wednesday, FINAL EDIllON
SECllON: NEWS; Pg. 20A
LENGTH: 3021 words
HEADLINE: ACROSS THE USA News from ewry state
BYLINE: From staff and wire reports
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Michigan: Lansing - Holocaust SUMVOrs or their
heirs will not haw to pay state taxes on any financial reparations
they get from the Swiss and German govemments, under a bill signed
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�by Gov. Engler. The bill would apply to assets owned by Holocaust
IActims from 1920 to 1945, and not retumed to them or otherwise
reimbursed b.efore January 1994.
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From: sloeser@PCHA.GOV (Stu Loeser)
To: Aimee.Breslow@hqda.army.mil (Aimee Breslow (E-mail», o_connor_ellen@hotmail.com (Ellen O'Connor (E-mail»,
gscmurphy@aol.com (Greg Murphy (E-mail», junz@hbj.sonnet.co.uk (Helen Junz (E-mail», itamir@netzero.net (hit Tamir (E
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Note especially the Hungarian reaction to the latest Gold Train
findings: "Probably the American example will help the French to also
examine their conscience."
Note also the French reaction: "French Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman
David Martinon said on Wednesday in
Paris he had heard nothing, knew nothing about French soldiers allegedly
participating in such a train theft.
'Perhaps American interpretations of Nazi activity are even more
influential than we thought...
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> Hi-.
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> Today's assets-related news:
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> Hungarian Jewry on French "Gold Train"
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> Column: Deutsche Bank Rector was welcomed in Israel
> Cali vs. Insurers (2 articles)
> Hitler Race Project Records Revealed
> MI - Repaprations are Tax-Free
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> Bonn Talks (6 articles)
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> HEADLINE: Hungarian Jewish leader claims French may haw mishandled
> Nazi-loot
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> BYLINE: EVA KEKES
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> DATELINE: BUDAPEST, Hungary
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A leading Hungarian rabbi claimed Wednesday he has uncowred
> evidence that
> French troops stationed in Austria after World War II may have
> mishandled two
> carriages laden with gold and diamonds confiscated from Hungarian
> Jews by the.
> Nazis.
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According to documents uncowred by Pet!3r Feldmajer in the Budapest
> Jewish
> Archiws, two wagons from a train containing confiscated Jewish
> valuables were
> found in the French zone of Austria after the war's end.
>
>
'The train was almost totally cleaned outby the time it was
> discovered, but
> in one carriage there were 36 cases of gold and 12 kilograms (26
> pounds) of
> diamonds and they remained under French guard," Feldmajer, the
> former president
> ofthe Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, told The·
> Associated Press.
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French Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Da'v1d Martinon said on
Wednesday in
Paris he had heard nothing, knew nothing about French soldiers
allegedly.
participating in such a train theft.
>
> Feldmajer cited an Allied Powers inventory of the train by Istvan
> Revesz, a
> representatiw of the Hungarian Jewish community who took part along
> with the
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Americans, British and French in documenting the contents of the two
carriages.
According to a recent report in Budapest's HVG weekly, the two
carriages were
originally part of a Hungarian gold-train seized by the U.S. infantry
on May 16,
1945 nine days after the Allied victory in Europe in Wenen, Austria,
south of
> Salzburg.
>
> For unknown reasons, the Nazi officer in charge ofthe train
> detached the two
> carriages and directed them towards Innsbruck in western Austria,
> which became
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> the French zone, the weekly said.
>
> Last month, the U.S. Presidential Ad\.isor Commission of Holocaust
> Assets
> released a report on the Hungarian gold train found in the U.S.
> sector in
> Werfen, admitting that American generals took valuables from the
> carriages, or
> turned them over to Austria instead of returning them to the Jews.
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Gabor Sebes, an office manager of the Hungarian Jewish Heritage
Fund in
Budapest, confirmed that some ofthe treasures wound up in the French·
zone. He
.said the French had at the time approached the Hungarian govemment
on the
retum of the valuables.
>
> But Feldmajer claims the inventory is the last known trace of the
. > gold and
> diamonds and their fate since has been unclear except that the
> treasures have
> never been returned to Hungary's Jews.
>
> "Probaply the American example will help the French to also
> examine their
> conscience," Sebes said. "We have no information about a French
> committee but
> if our research here brings out new results, we may be sending out
> memos to them
> and possibly to other governments, too."
>
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> "Visit the Commission's website at www.pcha.gov/neWs.htm for
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�Wit11drawal/Redactiol1 Marker
Clinton Library
DOCUMENT NO.
AND TYPE
001. email
DATE
SUBJECTrrlTLE
Marc Masurovsky to Gene Sofer; re: Access to CIA Documents (1
page)
RESTRICTION
11/23/99
This nlarker identifies- the original location of the withdrawn item listed above.
For a complete list of items withdrawn from this folder, see the
Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet at the front of the folder.
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the U.S.
Art & Cultural Property Theft
OA/Box Number: 40417
FOLDER TITLE:
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RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - 144 U.S.c. 2204(a»)
Freedom of Information Act - IS U.S.c. SS2(b»)
National Security Classified Information l(a)(I) of the PRA)
Relating to the appointment to Federal office l(a)(2) of the PRA)
Release would violate a Federal statute l(a)(3) of the PRA)
Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
financial information l(a)(4) of the PRA)
PS Release would disclose confidential advise between the President
and his advisors, or between such advisors la)(S) of the PRA)
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy l(a)(6) of the PRA)
b(l) National security classified information l(b)(I) of the FOIA)
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
an agency l(b)(2) of the FOIA)
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute l(b)(3) of the FOIA)
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
information l(b)(4) of the FOIA)
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy l(b)(6) of the FOIA)
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes l(b)(7) of the FOIA)
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
financial institutions l(b)(8) of the FOIA)
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
concerning wells l(b)(9) of the FOIA)
PI
P2
P3
P4
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
of gift.
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.c.
2201(3).
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
�The US Anny has refused to declassify a specific file entitled DARKO CIRCOVIC, Vols 1-3. XE. 166912, Box 620, RG 319
location 631/59/16/3-5.
Reasons for their refusal were not given. Although I have very little infonnation about this indi\oidual, I suspect that he might be
involved in some of our illicit gold transactions. The only way that we can gain access to these records is through the
intercession of a higher power. If you feel that the end justifies the means, please let me know. Understand that, since these
records are classified, these efforts might lead nowhere. But the CIA precedent is worth replicating, i.e., letting me view the
files while still in their classified state, and ifthey are relevant, ask that they be declassified. Let me know one way or another
what your thoughts.
BM, I have made progress on the CIA front. A previous e-mail should attest to that.
Marc MasurOlJSky
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RE: Stockholm
Date: 11/23/993:07:48 PM Eastem Standard lime
From: Imounts@PCHA.GOV (Lynda Mounts)
To: prezcomm@aol.com
Ken has asked the State Dept.~ and is awaiting an answer.
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Might anyone have the exact dates of the Stockholm Summit?
ll-tank you,
Marc Masurovsky
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From: Sarah.Robinson@hqda.army.mil (Robinson, Sarah Ms HAC)
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1) John lwaniec should be coming out there at some point today to check on
the database (for some reason the replica that was emailed on Friday cannot
be opened).
2) Although you cannot hit "tab"or "return" when in the summary field ofthe
Box RelJiew Database without progressing to the next record you can get a
hard return within that box by pressing "Ctrl" "Enter". Please make sure
Helene knows about this.
3) We are working on eliminating the Box RelJiew Form backlog. For us to do
this efficiently we need all of the forms. Please pull the forms you haVe
in your files out.
Thanks,
Sarah R.
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Please do me a favor and call out a box from RG 84, US Consulate, Bremen,
Germany, January 13, 1949, Confidential Series. The decimal number is
400.1. It may also be 350.23 Nazism. In any event, the memo is ofvery
poor quality Qhad to retype it), it is secret, to SecState. And it is
entitled: Recrudescence of Secret Acti"";ties of German Rightist groups;
Underground route established them "";a lirol and Italy to Argentina;
Encouragement given them by Peron government.
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Date: 11/22199 3:19:31 PM Eastern Standard lime
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Jennifer
Our policy requires that comp time requests be approved prior to working
the time sought to be comp'ed. Also, comp time is limited to time spent
on extraordinary projects, e.g. those with imminent deadlines, etc.
Since others did request in advance, it's uncomfortable for me to make
an exception, but I will consider it. Can you tell me what the nature
of the Saturday work was? Thanks.
KLK
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I was wondering ifit would be OK with you if I took Friday
as comp time in exchange for ha..,;ng worked this past Saturday. Thanks!
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Date: 11/22199 9:16:55 AM Eastem Standard lime
From: Sarah.Robinson@hqda.army.mil (Robinson, Sarah Ms HAC)
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I got the replica but am having some problems opening it on this system.
Once I work out the problems I will have you send me an updated copy. It is
ok to go ahead and continue entering information into the database, no
information will be lost.
I will let you know when I have things up and running. (With the moming
meeting and the new guy starting I am not promising anything quickly.)
The long and short of it is - please keep entering box review form
information.
Thanks,
SMR
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Requests for Staff and Materials
Date: 11/22/99 2:35:42 PM Eastem Standard lime
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Ken and Gene,
I just spoke with Jonathan and am able to report the following requests for the Art and Cultural Property Team.
priority we request:
In order of
1. Laptop(s). One laptop would aid our team in the production of the report as it would enable more effective working
conditions for researchers working away from the Ft. McNair lolcation. The allocation of two laptops would be ideal as it would
provide one laptop for each ofthe three researchers charged with the largest responsibility for the writing of the final report.
2.
Support staff for photo-copying.
3. FUll-time Researcher. With Karen's departure the Art and Cultural Property Team suffered a loss as she had been
working part-time with the team. A new researcher could be used to pick up some of Karen's work as well as to work with
other team members on projects already in progress.
I hope this is what was needed, please contact me (at the Archvies) or Jonathan (909-607-2775) ifthere are any questions.
Erin
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Margretta:
We're ha"';ng problems with the copier-it keeps jamming. Could you please arrange for somebody to come fix it? Thanks.
Sebastian
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Kenneth Klothen to Marc Masurovsky; re: Access to CIA Documents
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Art & Cultural Property Theft
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To: Marc
From: Ken
I heard back from the guy at CIA about the documents we requested be
declassified. Of these, one has apparently already been released for
another purpose; they are prepared to fax that document to us. The
others, according to them, don't have anything to do with Hungarian
assets or US involvement with them, but instead relate to acthiity by
the Jewish Agency with regard to immigration to Palestine.
ory about the rest of them,
pursue it.
you're not persuaded by
me know immediately and I'll '
Thanks.
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�POINTS TO MAKE IN THE INTRODUCTION
• The President's Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States
was established, inter alia. to develop an historic record of the disposition of Holocaust
victims' assets that came into the possession and control of the Federal Government at
any time after January 3D, 1933, and to make recommendations for possible legislative
or administrative actions pertaining thereto .
• There is, at present, considerable public interest in on-going efforts to locate
.
and return assets looted from Holocaust victims before and during the war years. The -
question of victim restitution, being part of the unfinished business of World War II, has
,
become increasingly pressing. A comprehensive discussion of the United States policy
on victims' restitution is necessary to understand the nature of the problem and to
determine what can be done about it now.
• For purposes of such a discussion, it is important to recognize, first, the.
difference between restitution and o~her remedies such as replacementlrestitution-in
kind or reparations for losses incurred, restitution being a remedy that does not involve
valuation. Second, it is important to recognize the difference between victim restitution,
that is, restitution to the person from whom the asset was taken and governmental
restitution, that is, restitution to the country of origin, the latter being the more common
restitution practice prior to World War II. Third, it is important to recognize the special
problem of "heirless" assets .
• It was not until 1947 that the United States had any clear policy on victim
restitution. How that policy evolved and how effective it was is the subject of this paper.
�.~
_For the most part, the policy on the disposition of victims' assets coming into the
possession and control of the United States government, both under United States
policy and under the policy of its Allies, was formulated, if at all, in the larger context of
formulating military, economic and political policies for post-war Europe. Concern for
victims was not a significant factor in US policy until the plight of the victims and the vast
accummulations of assets could no longer be ignored.
-Finally, policy depended on the nature of the asset.
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Date: 11/19/992:47:58 AM Eastern Standard lime
From: Marc.Masurovsky@hqda.army.mil (Masurovsky, Marc Mr HAC)
To: prezcomm@aol,com (prezcomm@aol.com)
If and when you get an e-mail from Jill that is addressed to me, can you
please forward it to McNair a.s.a.p.?
Thanks,
marc
BlW, please feel free to read it and comment on it by tomorrow, it is the
Executive Staff rendition of the introduction to the restitution paper.
Thank you again.
Marc
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Date: 11/15/9912:51:07 PM Eastem Standard lime
From: Marc.lVlasurovsky@hqda.army.mil (Masurovsky, Marc Mr HAC)
To: prezcomm@aol.com Cprezcomm@aol.com')
I spoke with Ken, Gene, and Jill this moming after the staff meeting. Here
is the bottom line regarding the paper's thesis: I am arguing (hopefully on
everyone's behal~ that the American govemment did not need the So~ets as
an excuse not to proceed with restitution in Europe after the end of WWII.
Indeed, our govemment had already decided informally at all levels of
decision-making that a policy of restitution was impossible to enforce after
the war, that the best we could do was to pro~de some form of compensation
for all those who would file claims. If you could restitute, fine, but our
main line of business was establishing the United States' firm imprint on '
the post-war recovery of war-tom Europe, even at the expense of our allies,
Great Britain, France, and the So~et Union. In other words, to make
clearer, as eany as the summer of 1944, discussions in Washington are about
how to combine a restitution policy with a policy of reconstruction of
Germany along American lines-strong, pro-yankee, pro-business,
anti-communist. The restitution policy was subsidiary to the overarching
interest of our lawmakers-that Germany was to become our bulwark in Europe,
that American business interests wer~ to resume what they had left offwhen
the war had started. Plain as day? Hence, where restitution was compatible
with those interests, did we in.fact restitute?
This argumentation somewhat overlaps with the traditional cold war ~ew
whereby everything that we accomplished in Europe between 1945-1949 had to
do in some fashion or form with the Russians' overall behalAor towards us.
One can argue that restitutable assets became pawns in the US's geopolitical
game offoxes with the SolAets, to wit, the Hungarian restitution which was
unprecedented,· the wholesale retum of Austria's gold, the setasides for the
Italians, all conveniently timed to ward off possible cilAl strife. Even
the return of state-owned cultural items or items that those govemments
claimed it owned was possible as long as it selVed long-range political
interests. But restitution to indilAduals was a big NO-NO, from the word
"go'''.
Agree? Disagree? I need your input DESPERATELY before 3 p.m. today so that
I can bring some closure to this .??>?>?>??!?!>?! paper.
Comradely yours,
Marc
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Marc,
I doubt that I have much to add to the conversation on your thesis. I can offer some thoughts on how I think your conclusion
intersects with the TGC, but not much more. The TGC did not restitute to individuals and was quick to fall back on legalistic
language to dismiss inquiries submitted by individuals. The TGC also argued that they were not in the position to determine
. what was in the pool, the three govemments were responsible for that. Once gold was in the pool, the TGC focused on
determining its distribution. P art of what draw the TGC was the intent to put monetary gold back into the economy of Europe.
The push to get the gqld out ofthe FED for the preliminary distribution was part ofthis urge. Regarding Cold War issues, the
TGC, particularly the US Commissioner-on instructions from State-stonewalled some ofthe claims submitted by Soviet
Block countries. Thus the actions of the TGC do not refute your thesis, but it seems that the pillOtal point in your conclusion
is in the summer of 1944, prior to the creation ofthe TGC. For that period, I haw not seen enough to argue for or against your
thesis. It is an intriguing conclusion, but I can offer no further feedback.
Bob
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Date: 11/15/991 :54:05 PM Eastem Standard lime
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Marc:
In general lines I agree with your thesis. Howewr, I do have some issues that I would like to raise.
(1) The argument that you outline is not just an overlap to the traditional cold war \riew. I think it's pretty much the same
position but at a micro lew!. The cold war 'lAew looks at the macro lewl-the big picture of why US policy dewloped along
certain lines. Your argument looks at specific policy developments such as US policy towards Germany, Italy, etc. At the
end, this still falls within the Cold War framework.
(2) Restitution to indi'IAduals was a big no-no from the beginning, as you say. But why? Is US foreign policy in Europe the only
explanation? In fact, how realistic and feasible could restitution to indi"';duals haw been? Could it haw been implemented
under the circumstances of post-war Europe?
Maybe it's still too early to answer some ofthese questions. I just thought I would point them out! I think we are on the right
track.
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Ford among companies linked to Auschwitz
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WARSAW, Poland-Ford Motor Co. is listed among nearly 500 companies that had
links to the Auschwitz death camp, which supplied Nazi Germany with slave
laborers during World War II, the head of archives at the Auschwitz museum
said Thursday.
The list, based on newly released Nazi documents from Russia, doesn't give
information on the exact link each company had to the notorious death camp,
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where some 1.1 million people died.
The list includes both companies that used slave labor and others that
inquired about using workers from Auschwitz, said Auschwitz museum
historians
compiling the list.
Apart from Ford's German subsidiary, German industrial giants such as Krupp,
Siemens, IG Farben and M.A.N. also are named.
Ford has acknowledged that slave labor was used at its Cologne, Germany,
plant during the war, but says it had lost control of its German operations
during World War II.
"There's no question that the Nazis assigned forced labor to the Cologne .
plant," said Ford spokesman Jim Vella. "It was out of our control. ... (But)
we don't have anything in our research that pertains to workers from
Auschwitz. "
Barbara Jarosz, the head of Auschwitz museum archives, said she had no
details about Ford's link to Auschwitz. Jarosz said archivists were still
reviewing the documents to establish names of slave laborers, which will
provide evidence for compensation claims.
The Polish state museum paid the equivalent of $10,000 to Russia for copies
of the documents-only a part of the camp archive taken to Russia by Red Army
soldiers who helped defeat the Nazis, officials said.
The newly available documents include construction plans, orders for raw
materials or services, invoices and reports from work on the death camp,
which the Nazis started bui Iding in 1940. The documents also include lists
of
workers, including camp inmates, used by some companies, Jarosz said.
Victims' organizations say detailed files of more than 100,000 workers would
�be helpful in their claims. But those papers remain in Moscow, where they
were taken along with all the other camp documents shortly after the Red
Army
freed Auschwitz in 1945.
In December, General Motors Corp. said. it hired' a Yale University professor.
to look into the company's activities in Nazi Germany.
GM has said that GM's Adam Opel plants in Germany were taken over by the
Nazis during the war and denied that it aided the Nazis.
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Florida gets deadline in Gerling Holocaust suit
Slave Labor
East Europeans stake claim to Nazi slave money
Slave labor talks resume in Washington Tuesday
War Criminals
'Nazi hunter' hopes to charge Kalejs within weeks
France's Chirac Rejects Papon Pardon
Remembrance
New archives building opens today at Yad Vashem
55th Annual Holocaust Memorial Service to be Held in Skokie on April 30
Florida
deadline in Gerling Holocaust suit
03/06/0
Forward
Joan Gralla
NEW YORK (Reuters)'
A U.S. judge has given Florida until March 13 to
respond to Germany's claim that a state law
ring European insurers
to identify policies sold to Holocaust victims violated its sovereignty,
lawyers involved in the case said Monday.
Many European insurers face charges that they never honored pre World
War II policies purchased by Holocaust victims. Florida has said its
reporting law would make it easier for the state's estimated 5,000 to
10,000 Holocaust. survivors and their heirs to file claims against
European insurers.
But the world's 10th biggest reinsurer, Germany's Gerling, last November
sued Florida in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of
Florida, Tallahassee
ion, arguing that the state law requiring
firms to reveal policies that might have been sold to Holocaust victims
was unconstitutional.
entered the battle in Florida on Feb. 24, arguing in a brief
that the state law violated its sovereignty.
A U.S. judge set a March 13 deadline Friday for Florida to answer
Gerling's claim after hearing oral arguments in the case.
"Part of the Florida defense is that assisting Florida citizens who are
victims of the Holocaust or have potential Holocaust claims is a
1
imate role for the State of Florida," Daniel Sumner, general
counsel to the Florida Department of Insurance, told Reuters by
telephone Monday.
While
Life did issue policies during the prewar period,
Frederick Reif, a New York-based lawyer who
the company,
said, "It has conducted a complete review of its files and not found any
liabilities. "
Because Florida's law is similar to a California statute, there has been
speculation that Gerling also will fight that state's Holocaust law,
which\~ubjects
firms to reporting requirements.
Reif declined comment on whether Gerling would
California the
reports it wants by the early April deadline.
"Gerling has been in compliance with all California laws up to this
point in time," Reif said.
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East Europeans stake claim to Nazi slave money
03/07/00
By Jonathan Wright WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - Five countries in
eastern and central Europe, at talks in Washington on Tuesday, will
stick to their demand that surviving Nazi~era slaves and forced laborers
receive 90 percent of a German compensation fund.
In a proposal dated
Monday and distributed 'on Tuesday, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Poland,
Russia and Ukraine said compensation to living victims would be "just
and dignified" only if it was at least nine billion marks ($4.4
billion). German companies and the Berlin government are
up the
10 billion mark ($4.9 billion) fund to compensate an estimated 240,000
slave laborers, mainly Jews, and about 1 million forced laborers, mostly
'from eastern Europe. Negotiations resume in Washington later on Tuesday
on how to share out the money between the slave laborers, the forced
laborers, victims of Nazi "Aryanization" policies and a "future fund" to
commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
The German government wants
to set aside 1 billion marks ($490 million) for the future fund and
another 1 billion for compensation to those who lost assets to the
Nazis. A source close to the talks said one of the most complex issues
-- how the German fund will be coordinated with a separate restitution
effort for insurance
appeared near resolution.
The source, who
declined to be named, said the German foundation likely will transfer
350 million marks to the International Commission on Holocaust-Era
Insurance Claims.
"The 350 million marks to be transferred does not,
however', include payment for insurance policies issued in countries
other than Germany," the source said. Most prewar insurance policies
bought by Holocaust victims were sold in eastern and centra~ Europe;
Germany had around 650,000 Jews before World War II. After accounting.
for administrative costs, the allocation formula would leave less than 8
billion marks ($3.9 billion) fo~ former laborers.
The proposal by the
east Europeans cuts the future fund 50 percent, to 500 million marks.
"It seems unreasonable to freeze a high amount of funds at the cost of
payments to victims,;' the proposal said.
Elan Steinberg, executive
director of the World Jewish Congress and a leading
icipant in the
talks, said he doubted the two
of 'talks would end in complete
agreement on how to share out the money.
"There are gaps which I think
we are closer to bridging. While I am not certain we will close all the
gaps by this round, I would expect progress to be made," he told
Reuters.
The Jewish groups are flexible on the size of the future fund
but insist that the mostly Jewish former slave laborers receive a fixed
per capita amount of 16,000 marks ($7,900).
"I wouldn't be
sed
if, in the end, some funds (for former laborers) have to come out of the'
future£und .
ion," said one delegat~, who asked, not to be named.
If
the slave laborers are guaranteed a fixed amount, the amount east
.
European forced laborers receive will depend on how many such claimants
are included in the compensation plan. The east European proposal
protested that previous German compensation plans shortchanged victims
from countries which later came under Soviet domination.
"Payments must
reflect the specific situation of neglected victims from central and
eastern Europe, who obtained only 1 percent of the German compensation
payments for Nazi persecution. These people were harshly discriminated
(against) in comparison with workers from other.countries," it said.
The State Department, which is hosting the talks, said on Monday it also
doubted negotiators would reach full agreement on all the outstanding
issues in
s round.
"The primary focus ... will be ~llocation of the
10
deutsche mark fund that the (German) foundation will
have,"
Department spokesman James Foley.
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Slave labor talks resume in Washington Tuesday
Jonathan Wright
03/06/00
WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters)
German companies and representatives of
Nazi-era slave and forced labourers meet in Washington on Tuesday on how
to share out the 10 billion marks ($4.9 billion) Germany has offered in
compensation.
The talks have already missed several target dates for completion and
the State Department said on Monday that it doubted that negotiators
would reach full agreement on all the outstanding issues during this
two-day session.
"The primary focus ... will be allocation of the capped 10 billion
deutsche mark fund that the (German) foundation will have, " said State
Department spokesman James Foley.
The money is to be divided between some 240,000 slave labourers, about
one million forced labourers, other people who filed personal injury
suits, victims of banking Aryanization and a "future fund"
for
education and commemoration of the Holocaust.
The chief German government negotiator, Otto Lambsdorff, is expected to
arrive in Washington on Monday afternoon for the talks, which also
include lawyers, Jewish groups~ Israel and the governments of five east
European countries.
Lambsdorff chairs the meetings jointly with U.S. Deputy Treasury
Secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who is President Bill Clinton's special
adviser on Holocaust issues.
"Deputy Secretary ... Eizenstat has expressed the hope that
iators
will be able to work out an agreed allocation formula at this session.
Completion of other details, we think, will take additional time and we
do not expect that this will be the last negotiating session,"
said
Foley.
The last round of talks took place in Berlin in mid-February.
The forced labourers, mostly east European, and the predominantly Jewish
the
slaves, whom the Nazis expected to work to death, are certain to
bulk of the
which will provide one-time payments of up to 1 ,000
marks ($7,400).
with the German
to devote
. But some of the negotiators are not
for Holocaust awareness
a billion-marks each to the "future fund"
projects and to compensation for those whose assets were stolen by_the
Nazis. They say these projects would not leave enough for the main
beneficiaries.
Representatives of east and central European victims want nine billion
marks ($4.4 billion) to be set aside for the forced and slave labourers
but after the Berlin talks
said there was room for negotiation on
that figure.
The aim is a negotiated ~ettlement which saves the German companies from
expensive litigation and which provides compensation quickly, while the
victims are still alive.
.
About one percent of the survivors are dying every month.
'Nazi hunter' hopes to charge Kalejs within weeks 4: 03 AM AEST March 8
America's chief Nazi hunter says he is hoping extradition charges
against accused war criminal Konrad Kalejs could be laid within weeks.
Eli Rosenbaum heads the United States Justice Department's Office of
Special Investigations.
He yesterday met of
~ from the Federal
Attorney-General's department and the Australian Feaeral Police service.
He says last month's meeting in Riga has renewed hope that justice may
finally be served on Mr Kalejs.
"As a result of the united front that
the other governments that were represented in Riga, the Australian,
American, Canadian, German and Israeli governments," Mr Rosenbaum said.
"Our united front I believe convinced the Latvians that they now must
aggressively pursue this case and they have agreed to report back to the
other government's in a matter of weeks.
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France's Chirac Rejects Papon Pardon
03/07/00
PARIS (Reuters) - President Jacques Chirac has rejected an
by
convicted French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon for a pardon because of
his poor health, the president's office announced Tuesday.
Papon, 89, who is
a 10-year prison sentence for his wartime role
in deporting Jews
death camps, has a history of cardiac illness.
A communique from the president's office said Papon's lawyer had
a pardon last December and added: "The head of state has
ected this request for a medical pardon."
Francis Vuillemin, one of Papon's lawyers, said he was "stunned,
embittered and disappointed" by Chirac's decision "which showed the
lacked an ounce of humanity."
was rushed to hospital for treatment at least twice since last
October when he began
his sentence for war crimes linked to the
of 1,500 Jews.
A medical board however ruled ~fterwards that Papon's state was not
incompatible with incarceration.
The supervisor of the pro-Nazi V i c h y ' s regional Office for Jewish
Questions in southwest France during
War Two, he was found guilty
by a Bordeaux court in April 1998 of helping to organize their transport
to death camps.
Gerard Boulanger,
families of victims, s a i d ' s
ection of Papon's
was inevitable after the release last week
on medical grounds of Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet by Britain.
"Pinochet cheated everyone (by appearing in relatively good health on
~
his arrival in Chile) and that could not be without consequence for
Papon," said Boulanger.
He also recalled Papon took advantage of the fact he was free on bail to
make a last-minute bid to escape prison by fleeing to Switzerland last
year. But he was
found and sent back to France.
His wartime activities unknown, Papon dodged post-war purges to enjoy an
illustrious career as Paris police chief and then French budget
minister.
His trial, which
in 1997 after a 17-year legal battle, was
interrupted several times because of his poor health
Jerusalem Post
03/07/00
New archives building opens today at Yad Vashem
Tamar Hausman
(March 7) - Yad Vashem is to open a new archives and
building in
a ceremony to be attended today by President Ezer Weizman, Ashkenazi
Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, and Finance Minister Avraham Shohat.
The building will house the largest collection of Holocaust material in
. the world - 80,000 titles of books and over 55 million pages of
documentation. The collection includes personal testimonies, Nazi
documentation, records of Nazi war criminal trials, and diaries and
memoirs of survivors and Nazis.
"The archives and library are the information repository on which the
structure of remembrance rests," said Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev.
Among the archives is a collection of documentation compiled in Warsaw
by Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum.
Ringelblum and his family were murdered by the Nazis in the Warsaw
Ghetto. But much of his Oneg Shabbat Archive was found after the war,
buried under the ruins.
The new building sits atop the northern slopes of the Mount of
Remembrance, with sweeping views of Jerusalem.
Architect Daniel Lanski designed the building to
a feeling of a
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shelter: the top two of its three floors receive natural light and the
archived material sits on the lower floor. The building is part of Yad,
Vashem's master building plan, which includes the addition of a new
museum complex and visitors' center.
The Claims Conference contributed $20
- one-third of the cost
Rabbi Israel Miller,
to the Yad Vashem master plan,
president of the conference. The archive and library building is
dedicated to the conference.
55th Annual Holocaust Memorial Service to be Held in Skokie on April 30
03/06/00
SKOKIE, Ill., March 6 1
More ,than 1,000 people, including
an estimated 600 Holocaust survivois, are expected to attend the 55th
annual' collective memorial observance on Sunday, April 30. 'The service,
to be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Skokie Valley Agudath Jacob Traditional
Synagogue, 8825 East Prairie Avenue, in Skokie, i!3 tr,adi tionallY the
largest gathering of
survivors in the Midwest and one of the
largest in the
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"The recent developments in Austria remind us that the poison of,
anti-Semitism still lurks close to the surface in many parts of the
world," said Charles
of Sheerit Ha~leitah of
Metropolitan Chicago, the
organi.zation for the area's Holocaust
survivor ~roups and sponsor of the
service. ~The release of
Adolph Eichmann's book
reinforces how simple it is for individuals
to refuse to take
for their hideous actions.
Instead, we read his adherence to the powers of the state, which made
such evil not only possible but a disgusting reality."
"As the children of Holocaust survivors" we are t~king increa~ingly
greater roles in ensuring that the legacy of our parents lives on," said
Michael Zolno, president of
Association of ,Children of Holocaust
Survi vors. "The survivors, many of whom were robbed' of their chi,ldhood
and forced to witness
acts of horror, still went on to lead
productive lives and pass their
and faith ,on to us. It is our
duty and obligation to share these lessons with the world."
Speakers at the 2000 service will include Tzipora Rimon, Israeli Consul
General; Michael Zolno, president of the Association of Children of
Holocaust Survivors; Mayor
Van Dusen10f Skokie and Rabbi Jack
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Veterans, Skokie Post 328, will also participate. A's part of the
ceremony, a grandchild of survivors will p~y tribute to the enormous
contribution of the
Survivors to the Chicago community in
passing their
courage to futUre generations.
A high point of the service is the candle lighting ceremony honoring the
six million victims,
1.2'million innoc~nt children, who
perished in the Holocaust. The ,ceremony will 'be conducted by Laor
Organization President
Rubinstein ,and past Vice President Barbara
Pryor, with the
ion by children and grandchildren of
local-area Holocaust survivors. Proclamations oy Governor George Ryan
and Mayor Richard M.
o,f Chicago will be read by committee members.
Sheerit Hapleitah includes the following groups: Association of Children
of Holocaust Survivors,
Chapter
NAAMAT, Holocaust M'emorial
Foundation of Illinois, Jewish Lithuanian Club of Chicago, Laor
Organization, Maccabi
zation, Midwest Chestochover
New Citizens 'Club, Workman's Circle, The United Chicago Jews of
Hungarian Descent, Inc.,
ion of Child Survivors and Dr. Janush
Korchak B'nai Brith
.' In addition, the organization is proud to
welcome a new group, the
Leadership Division --or Dor Ledor
of
Sheerit
, The group is made up of children and grandchildren of
Holocaust survivors and will play an important role of carrying on the,
legacy.
Memorial Committee, 773-338-3069, or
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relevant:
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Records of_the New York Office Boxes 131-160 location: 230/31/3/02
They mainly cover the 1942-1945 period, and contain a lot of information
about assets.
But the way they are arranged, it would take someone several
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LEGAL 'PERIODICALS,.,
AUGUST 1949 TO JULY 195~
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W AR-Conti"ued
Renegotiation Act of 1951 analyzed and
compared with Acts of 1943 and 1948.
L. Mills. J Account 91 :690-703 My '51
Role of ,lawyer in ,renegotiation. U. A.
Lavery. Fed R D 11:569·75. N '51
Statutory renegotiation of contracts in
peacetime. H. B. Cox. Calif S B J 24:
309-15S-0 '49
Statutory renegotiation of military pro
curement contracts. F. L. ,Roberts. J
Account 89:234-9 Mr '50
SUBJEcrS
WAR CRIMES
, See War III.
WAR VETERANS
See a/so Soldiers and Sailors.
Constitutional law-"promotion" rigll
veterans' under, Veterans Preference
, (Commonwealth v. O'Neill, (Pa.)·
Atl (2d) 382.]
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'B U L Rev 32:106-11 Ja '52
Current problems of veterans' seni
[FishgoJd v. Sullivan Drydock
&
pair Corp., 66 Sup Ct 1105; T
X. War Damages.
bile Co. v. Whirls, 67 Sup Ct 982.]
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Geo L J 37:585-96 My '49 (11'."
House purciiase"aiii:1"war damage. Sol J
Barker, J r . ) , .
93:801-2 D 24 '49
Reemployment' and seniority rights_,
Phillipine War Damage Commission: fac-,
veterans. [Oakley v. Louisville & N~
tual summary of its work. F. A. Del
ville RR, Haynes v. Gincinnat1
gado. A B A Jour 38:32-4 Ja '52
Orleans & Texas Pac. Ry., 70 <::lap ..
Planning Payments (War Damage) Scheme, ,
119.] ,
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1949. Sol J 93 :815-17 D 31 '49
Geo Wash L Rev 18:277-80 F 'SO ;
Planning payments under War Damage
Mich '!- Rev 48~883-4 Ap ,'SO (D.D:
Scheme, 1949.T. J; Sopbian. Sol 18:4-5
DaVls.):~
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Reemployri:J.ent rights. F. G. Beattie. llicfi'l
S B J 31 :45.·9 J a '5.2; Ohio Bar 2S:1~
United States-Philippine, War Darr,age
93 Ap 7, '52
t{~
Commission. P. D. Shriver. Arb J n.s.
Reemployment rights of the veteran. I>uIi:i!
_1.:282-8~
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B J 1 :75·100 Mr '51
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-:::,'":,'War claims'-a symposium. Foreword. R.
Rights of servicemen to re-employmeat;
'-1Cfatnu';'Waraarnage'compensation and
C. E. Earnheart. Okla B A J 21:1249-51
restitution .in fOreign countries'wN. ,Rob
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inson: dUfugee,s ,and feeaiations.,.S.J.
Vacation pay for rehired veterans. H. )1;'
, 7·Rubirr-:'~ijq:.:A:~~S,cliWj-fti;'5ReJation~
. Leet. Western ,Res L Rev 2:2741 Je'SO
, ship - of vested assets to war claims.
Veterans' land program. A. Vandnrfl.,
M. S. Mason: Protection of non-enemy
Tex B J 12:503-4, 523 N ' 4 9 1 .
interests in enemy external assets. E.
Veter;m's' re-employment - closed sb.:
Maurer; Problems of Italian, Peace
~greements. [lob v. Los AnCles B~:'.
'freaty: analysis of claims provisions
ang Co., Inc., 183 F (2d) 398.
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and description of enforcement. W. S.
U Detroit L J 14:159-61
r '51"
Surrey; Problems of compensation and
restitution in Germany and Austria. M.
WAREHOUSES AND WAREHOUSE-'
Karasik: To what extent should Con
MEN
gress appropriate to distribute burden,of
Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act-ware-:'
, war loss, given the insufficiency of war
houseman's lien. [Harbor View Marine.
reparation. C. J. Stetler; Claims for
Corp. v. Braudy, 189 F (2d) 481.)
reparations and damages resulting from
Syracuse L Rev 3:209·10 Fall '51
violation of neutral rights, W. G. Dow
U Pa L Rev 100:473-6 D ' 5 1 '
ney, Jr.; War damage and, nationaliza
'Warehouse regulation since Munn y"
tion in Eastern Europe. S. Herman;
. Illinois. J. R. Bloomquist. Chi-Kent L
War damage compensation through re
Rev 29:120·31 Mr '51
habilitation: the Philippine War Damage
Commission., E. Schein; War claims:
,
what of the future? Q. Wright. Law & WARRANTY
Contem Prob 16:345-553 Summer"5f ......,
Su a/so Sales.
Waf' Dlimagc'C'orpofitron'a:'ri'd :iis'meaning
Agency to' make warranties. M. FerllOll.
to insurance buyers.' H. F. Perlet. Ins
Vand L Rev 5:1-13 D '51
Counsel J 19:26-34 Ja ' 5 2 '
Allergy of the plaintiff as defense in acWar damage: some leading decisions.
dons based upon breach of implied warLord Meston. L T 212:158-60 S 21 '51
ranty of quality. H. W. Horowitz. So
Calif L Rev 24:221~37 Ap '51
XI'1n :rermPtation of War.
,Implied warranties-should the doctrine
, '.. t'
,~ ,.' .:~ f'
be limited to sales transactions? R. B.
Endmg the' war..~with ,Germany. J. L.
Deen. Jr., C. H. Warfield. Vand L Ret'
Kunz. Am J Int Law 46:114·19 ]a'52
.
2:675·85 Je '49
Termination of a war. E. L. Newton.
Implied warranty-retail food 'stores aDli
Wyo L J 4:115·20 Winter '49
sealed containers. [Sencer v. Carl'"
Markets, Inc. (Fla.) 45 So (2d) 671.)·
XII. Reconstruction.
U Fla L Rev 3:380-4 Fall '50
(No Articles.)
U Pa L Rev 99:111-13 0 '50
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Dear Colin.
I know nothing of a joint housing arrangement in College Park among the researchers but will direct your inquiry to your
colleagues at Archiws II. Both Gene Sofer and I feel that it will serve us all best if you can get your housing settled and then
be ready to giw your full attention to the work. In the meantime, If you can begin work on the Gimbel books that we spoke of,
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Hi
Here's the news:
Art:
Germans mull database to return art taken by Nazis
Stolen masterpieces draw big spenders to auction
Labor:
U.S. envoy asks for calm in Nazi forced labor lawsuits
U.S. Holocaust Lawyers Work on Counteroffer
Germany Says Further Nazi Labor Talks Possible
NYT: Schroeder Dismisses Demands to Enlarge Fund for Nazi Slaves
Swiss:
Der Bund, Bem, Switzeriand Editorial
Embarrassed UBS admits WW II files destroyed (Reuters)
Swiss Bank Won't Face Nazi Charges (AP)
NY Jewish Week: U.S.: Swiss Banks Misled Jews
Hungary Holocaust museum to meet "just demand"
Jews, Catholics In 'Search For Truth',
Chasing Bad Guys (OSI)
Until tomorrow,
Stu
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Germans mull database to return art taken by Nazis
05:41 p.m Dec 09, 1999 Eastern
BERLIN, Dec 9 {Reuters} - Germany is considering creating an Internet
database to promote the return of looted artefacts to 'Jictims of Nazi
persecution or their heirs, German authorities said on Thursday.
National and regional ministers of culture and education.meeting in Borm
also pledged to work harder to ensure that publicly owned museums,
galleries and libraries returned items believed to have been stolen by
the Nazis to their rightful owners - mostly Jews persecuted in the
Holocaust.
Germany is already committed to returning such items, and applies th~
"Principles with respect to Nazi-confiscated art" agreed last year by
the international Washington Conference on Holocaust-era assets. '
The planned database would allow institutions to publish details of
artefacts which they believe to have been seized by the Nazis, and would
let those who had lost artefacts to advertise the fact and seek their
retum, the ministers said in a statement.
It would also pro'Jide detal's of artefacts believed to have been taken
abroad, and give other interested parties a forum to contribute their
knowledge.
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ART: Stolen masterpieces draw big spenders to auction
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�A still life by Cezanne, stolen in 1978 and recolA9red 20 years later,
sold for £18.15m at Sotheby's in London on Tuesday night. The price was
comfortably above its £12m top estimate.
Bouilloire et Fruits, which depicts a pewter jug and fruit, disappeared
from the New York apartment of Harry Bakwin and only resurfaced last
year when its temporary owner attempted to insure it.
A drawing by Van Gogh of an olive grove made £5.28m, a record for a Van
Gogh drawing.
It, too, has a romantic history. It was Nazi war loot and was recently
traced to a Berlin museum. Its owner, an elder1y lady Ihling in the
Midlands, had gilA9n up all hope of being re-united with her inheritance.
The auction of Impressionist and Modem art topped £40m, as against
£11.1 m for a comparable sale last December.
Among the 60 lots on offer were 25 paintings and drawings by Picasso,
sold by the estate ofthe fashion designer Gianni Versace, who was
murdered in 1997. They brought in £10.8m, also abow forecast, with just
two unsold. A portrait by Picasso of his daughter Maya did well at
£3.7m.
There was one disappointment when a Van Gogh painting of a Paris park
failed to approach its £3m reser\A9 price. But the Sotheby's auction
confirmed that London is still a significant participant in the
international art market.
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U.S. envoy asks for calm in Nazi forced labor laINSuits
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WASHINGTON (December 9, 19994:59 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com)
Lawyers and German companies negotiating compensation for Nazi-era
forced laborers should remain calm and be flexible following sUNvors'
rejection of the latest German offer, the main U.S. negotiator said
Thursday.
"I belielA9 that it would be a tragedy for this initiative to collapse
now when the parties are closer than they have ever been to a settlement
amount," said Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat.
It was Eizenstat's first public statement following Tuesday's move by
class-action lawyers involved in the talks to reject the German offer of
$4.2 billion in compensation.
.
Victims' lawyers have suggested a range from $5.2 billion to $7.9
billion.
The letter was sent to Eizenstat and Otto Lambsdorff, German envoy to
the talks, which are aimed at setting up a joint German gOlA9rnment and
industry foundation to pay people forced into labor for Hitlers's war
machine as well as some other Holocaust related claims. In return,
companies want an end to laINSuits against them in the states.
Eizenstat said in a two-paragraph statement that he had a "constructive
discussion" with Lambsdorff earlier in the day, that sUNvors' attorney
were holding "intensiw meetings" this week and that he hoped to.be in
touch with Lambsdorff again by ear1y next week.
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"This is the time for all sides to be flexible, to remain calm and to
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justice to surviving slaw and forced laborers and legal peace for
German companies in the U.S .... the statement said.
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U.S. Holocaust Lawyers Work on Counteroffer
04:47 p.m Dec 09, 1999 Eastern
By Joan Gralla
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S .. lawyers negotiating with Germany over claims
that German companies profited by using Nazi-era slaw laborers said on
Thursday they were thrashing out a counteroffer after rejecting
Germany's $4.2 billion (8 billion mark) proposal.
The lawyers haw said the proposed new restitution fund for ex-slaves,
forced laborers and other victims of Nazi war crimes should be between
$5.3 billion and $8 billion (10 billion and 15 billion marks).
A Dec. 8 target date for setting up the fund was missed and Germany's
negotiators have said time is running out.
The lawyers said they hope to haw a counteroffer to present to the top
U.S. negotiator for Holocaust issues, Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart
Eizenstat, on Friday afternoon.
"Everything is in flux," Gideon Taylor, executiw vice president of
the Claims Conference, told Reuters by telephone.
The Claims Conference is the lead Jewish advocacy group in the talks,
and Taylor took part in the discussions with the priwte U.S. Holocaust
attorneys.
EIZENSTAT UNDERSCORES URGENCY
Eizenstat underscored the urgency ofthe issue, saying, "I believe it
would be a tragedy for this initiatiw to collapse now when the parties
are closer than they haw ever been to a settlement amount."
Eizenstat, in a prepared statement, also said he had had a constructive
talk on Thursday with Germany's top negotiator, Otto Lambsdorff. "We
are working on a number of fronts to bridge the gap between parties,"
he said.
The U.S. lawyers, who sued German companies on behalf of Holocaust
victims, discussed sewral options.
"We're thinking of what we could include with their offer and what we
haw to exclude and deal with later," said Deborah Sturman, a New
York-based attorney.
Under one proposal, property claims against banks for "Aryanization"
- the term used to describe the wholesale looting of Jewish assets
would be put off until a later date because the size ofthe fund
proposed by Germany is not big enough to cover the estimated 2.3 million
surviving victims.
"If they come up with a settlement that is only adequate to cowr slave
and forced laborers then we'll do that first, because we're further
along on that one," Sturman said.
SOME OPPOSE PIECEMEAL APPROACH
Another idea is to fund the humanitarian part of the plan - designed to
cowr such things as educational programs - with a small sum that would
grow owr time, she said.
However, some participants in the discussions oppose such a piecemeal
approach.
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"This thing is either one foundation that settles (the claims) or not,
doing it in stages or chunks is not going to work," Taylor said.
The negotiators also focused on how closely to link insurance claims
that the German fund aims to settle with an independent international
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�commission probing charges Europe's insurers cheated Holocaust victims
by not paying their policies.
.
One source said the options being considered included leaving insurance
claims entirely with the German fund, having it channel payments to the
insurance commission, or letting the commission handle all claims.
Ed Fagan, a New York-based attorney, said the discussions also centered
on how much more slave laborers should receive compared with forced
laborers.
While the Nazis tried to work slaves - who mostly were Jewish - to
death, forced laborers were not part of a genocidal plan although they
often toiled under brutal conditions .
. A source close to the talks said that under one plan, ex -slaws would
get $10,000 to $13,000 (20,000 to 25,000 marks), a sum that would be
three to fiw times greater than what forced laborers would get. The
source requested anonymity.
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Germany Says Further Nazi Labor Talks Possible
06:43 a.m. Dec 09, 1999 Eastem
By Mark John
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German govemment's chief negotiator on a
proposed fund to compensate Nazi-era slave laborers said Thursday new
talks were possible despite the latest missed deadline tor a deal.
But Otto Lambsdorff insisted new talks could not be launched until his
counterpart, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat, had
respond~d on behalf of surviving victims to a German offer of eight
billion marks ($4.2 billion) restitution.
"It really is about time we receiwd an answer," the former German
economics minister told German ARD television.
In the event of a rejection, he added: "I would like a very clear
proposal with a number. With this, then we can consider things further
on."
In a separate interview with Handelsblatt newspaper, Lambsdorff noted
there was "still a great deal to negotiate," including a guarantee of
protection against Mure lawsuits sought by companies which haw. agreed
to contribute to the fund.
Backed by the German government, a group of Germany's top firms proposed
the fund earlier this year to pre-empt class-action suits against them
by lawyers in the United States
and trade sanctions threatened by some U.S. authorities.
But the lawyers and others representing surviving victims - put at
anything up to 2.3 million, with most living in eastern Europe - say
the current offer is too small. They haw set a range of 10 to 15
billion marks.
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FEARS OF FUND COLLAPSE
Wednesday, the deadline for agreement set at the last round of
negotiations in November, the. class-action lawyers said they had
rejected the German offer but offered to meet for new talks next week.
German fund officials said, however, only Eizenstat could formally
reject the offer on behalf of all the parties involwd in the talks,
which include Jewish Holocaust victim groups and east European
gowrnments ..
A spokesman for the some 50 firms in the fund indicated on Wednesday
some groups were close to accepting the figure on the table. He said
representatives for many thousands of RUssian victims had reacted "wry
positiwly and constructively."
.
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�The fund was set up in February by some of Germany's top household names
and leading exporters, including firms such as DaimlerChrysler,
Volkswagen and Allianz, amid growing threats of legal action.
Other firms have entered the fund anonymously, making it hard to
ascertain which of the hundreds more companies alleged to have used
forced or slave labor are resisting joining the initiative.
German officials fear anew rejection could cause the fund to collapse
as firms leave and compensate only their own forced laborers separately.
That would mean hundreds of thousands of people who labored for firms
that have since disappeared would go uncompensated.
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The New York Times - December 9, 1999
Schroeder Dismisses Demands to Enlarge Fund for Nazi
Slaves
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
FRANKFURT, Germany - With negotiations at an impasse
over a German fund to compensate Nazi-era slave laborers, German
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder dismissed demands to improve Germany's
latest offer.
"It is now an issue for the lawyers," Schroeder said in
a television inteNew Wednesday" ruling out any increase in the joint
offer by German corporations and the government of 8 billion marks or
$4.2 billion.
Otto Lambsdorlf, Germany's lead negotiator, said German
companies may in fact start withdrawing from the proposed settlement and
striking deals on their own.
German corporations, hoping to avoid protracted court
battles and negative publicity in the United States, have been
negotiating with American lawyers and Jewish organizations for months
and seemed to be near an agreement just three weeks ago.
About 60 of Germany's biggest industrial companies and
banks have offered to put up about 5.5 billion marks and the German
government has agreed to put up another 2.5 billion.
But in class action ~uits, American Jewish groups and
lawyers are demanding about 10 billion marks, which amounts to about$1
billion more than the current offer.
The two sides were supposed to meet for what many had
hoped would be a final round oftalks in Washington on Wednesday. But
the talks were canceled when it became clear they would not agree.
U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who has
acted as a moderator in the talks, refused to comment Wednesday. But in
a speech eanier this week at the Council on Foreign Relations, he said
it would be a "tragedy" if talks collapsed over a difference of just $1
billion.
People on both sides say it is still possible to reach a
deal before the end of the year. "Ironically, the two sides are closer
than they have ever been before," said Elan Steinberg, executive
director of the Wond Jewish Congress.
'
Informal discussions and telephone calls continue to
take place, and both sides are under pressure to reach agreement. Groups
representing Holocaust SUNVOrs fear that a long court battle would
delay compensation until after many have died.
German corporations, meanwhile, want to avoid an
avalanche of bad publicity as well as potentially enormous verdicts
handed down by American courts.
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�Schroeder began seeking a resolution almost as soon as
he was elected chancellor about one year ago. Reversing the hard-line
stance of his predecessor, Helmut Kohl, Schroeder agreed to the
gowrnment contributing alongside industry to a fund that would
compensate people forced to work in German factories by the Hitler
. regime.
Experts estimate that about 250,000 slave laborers
concentration camp prisoners forced to work without pay are still
aliw today. But as many as two million other workers, most of them
shipped in from central and eastem Europe, were forced to work as well
under varying conditions of pay.
People inwlwd with the negotiations say the two sides
are in general agreement about how the fund should allocate money. They
haw also narrowed their differences over its size, with American
lawyers retreating from their original dem'ands of 20 billion marks or
more,
American groups have suggested they will accept an offer
of 10 billion marks. German corporations have thus far refused to budge,
They also complain that American negotiators have not fully assured them
that they would be free from any future claims if they sign this
agreement.
At the same time, hundreds of companies that used forced
labor during the Nazi era still refuse to join the fund. In addition to
scores of mid-sized and smaller German companies, they also include
American corporations like Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp.,
which has owned the German car company Adam Opel AG for more than 60
years.
Many companies, including Ford and GM, have argued that
they simply lost control oftheir companies during the war. Others argue
that they are legally different companies and merely carry the names of
those that operated during the war.
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Editorial Roundup
The Associated Press
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1999; 12:21 p.m, EST
Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers in the United States and
abroad:
Dec. 7
Der Bund, Bem, Switzerland, on conclusions of three-year search for
Holocaust-era assets in Swiss banks:
So now we know: Swiss banks don't hold $6.3 billion belonging to ~ctims
ofthe Nazis, our financial institutions didn't embezzle ~ctims' money,
they didn't systematically destroy documents - and, after more than five
decades, they still have an astounding quantity of account details.
So far, so good.
But if the Swiss Bankers Association and the federal banking commission
insist only on seeing a "positive reference" .,. that smacks of
self-delusion, of exactly the sort that Switzerland can no longer afford
on this subject.
The Swiss banks didn't emerge as the de~1 in Volcker's verdict - but
they were far from innocent lambs ....
One can try to dismiss the dozens of cases of improper beha~or cited in
the report as "isolated cases."
But the banks' postwar beha~or in searching for missing assets is
described in the report as it ob~ously was - stonewalling,
'widespread,' 'generalized' and in some cases even leading to 'active
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Embarrassed UBS admits WW II files destroyed
05:39 p.m Dec 09, 1999 Eastern
,
ZURICH, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, said on
Thursday bank employees had destroyed docuinents which might have been
relevant to a probe into dormant World War Two accouht~, breaching a '
Swiss govemment decree.
Confirming revelations in an annex to the Volcker report on Dormant
Accounts of Victims of Nazi Persecution in Swiss Banks, UBS spokesman
Michael Willi regretted the incidents, but said the records lost had
been irrelevant to the now completed probe.
A report by the Volcker Committee, named after committee chairman and
former U.S. central bank chief Paul Volcker, found nearly 54,000 bank
accounts possibly or probably linked to holocaust v;ctims of the NaZi
era.
In the run-up to the creation of the Volcker Committee, the Swiss
government decreed in December 1996 itwas an offtimce to destroy, .
transfer abroad or make "less accessible" potentially useful records.
The ZUrich region's highest investigative legal officer, Bruno Graf,
told Reuters however there was no case to prosecute in the destruction
of documents by UBS employees.
He said the auditors who had uncovered the four incidents in April and
'
May 1998 had not pressed charges.
Grafsaid the reference to the incidents in the Volcker report, which
was published on Monday, had also come to his attention too late, given
a one-year statute of limitations for such offences ..
The affair is an embarrassment for UBS and three other unnamed Swiss
banks where the report said auditors also found instances of
irregularities.
HOPED REPORT WOULD TURN FRESH PAGE
They had all hoped that with the report's publication, the darker pages
of Swiss banking history would have been turned over for good.
The UBS spokesman said the bank would have welcomed the chance to clear
its name ofthe allegations in court, where he said it could have proved
that the documents in question would have been immaterial to the
investigation into what happened to the accounts of Holocaust v;ctims.
Willi said the issue was a sensitive one in-the public eye but had no
legal consequences, despite the breach in intemalbank rules and
federal law.
The most eye-catching breach was uncovered in January 1997 when a
watchman at UBS removed what appeared to be historical material set
aside for destruction from the bank.
He handed it to a local Jewish organisation and a journalist, who gave
it to judicial authorities· in Zurich.
The outcry in Switzerland over the incident was such that the security
.
guard emigrated to the United States. ' .
The Volcker report, while finding nearly 54,000 bank accounts probably
or possibly linked to Holocaust \Actims, said Swiss banks had not
actively 'conspired to hoard the wealth ~ not just cash, but also art,
gold and securities of Nazi'v;ctims.
UBS and Credit Suisse Group, the other leading Swiss bank; have set up a '
$1.25 billion fund to compensate \Actirns.
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Thursday December 9, 4:17 pm Eastern lime
Swiss Bank Won't Face Nazi Charges
By ALEAANDER G. HIGGINS
Associated Press Writer
BERN, Switzerland (AP) .:.:. Swiss authorities on Thursday ruled out
criminal proceedings against the country's biggest bank for shredding
Holocaust-era documents.
The former Union Bank of Switzerland, which hit the headlines when a
night watchman rescued Holocaust-era documents from a shredding room in
1997, may haw "';olated a Swiss law banning such destruction, according
to a U.S.-led study of missing assets in Swiss banks published Monday.
But Zurich justice official Bruno Graf said no proceedings can be opened
against bank officials because any infractions are cowred by a one-year
statute of limitations.
The commission that led a three-year search for the assets of Holocaust
victims, headed by former U.S. Federal Reserw Chairman Paul A. Volcker,
said its auditors found the former bank had been involved in document
destruction in April and May 1998.
"Documents that might have been deemed to be relevant to the
investigation ... were destroyed," its report said.
The report said some ofthe destroyed documents related to international
fund transfers, but was unable to disclose any more about their
contents. Such transfers could have included money belonging to Nazi
victims.
The incidents disclosed by the Volcker report occurred as the Union Bank
of Switzerland was preparing to merge with Swiss Bank Corp. to form one
of the largest banks in the world, UBS AG.
In January 1997, watchman Christoph Meili saved some documents relating
to German real estate transactions in Berlin after the Nazis came to
power and forced Jews to sell property at rates well below their actual
value. Meili subsequently fled to the United States, claiming he had
received death threats.
Zurich district attomey's office spokesman Hansruedi Mueller said he
found it "really very strange" that there might have been more
incidents at Union Bank of Switzerland relating to destruction of
Holocaust-era documents.
Michael Willi, a spokesman for the merged bank, said it regretted the
incidents, but said it had decided the documents that were destroyed
fell outside the Swiss ban and thus had not reported them.
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December 10, 1999/ 1 Tewt 5760
U.S.: Swiss Banks Misled Jews
By: Stewart Ain, Staff Writer
Volcker commission audit details Nazi collusion, how funds were bled dry
and heirs lied to; 54,000 undisclosed accounts found.
The heir of a French Holocaust "';ctim went to a Swiss bank seeking the
money from his relative's account. Although the bank had a handwritten
note stating that the account had been drained dry by bank fees in 1972,
the bank turned the heir away by saying no such account then existed.
The son of a Polish man murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 contacted the
Swiss bank in which his father had deposited money before the war.
Several times he asked about his fathers account in the bank's Zurich
branch, and each time he was told there was no such account. The bank
newr rewaled that the account had actually been in its Basel branch
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�and was looted by the Nazis in 1938.
A Dutch Jew who escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to Chile directed
that funds be released from his Swiss bank account to pay for food
packages for his wife, who was interned in a Nazi concentration camp.
The bank refused, saying all accounts of citizens of countries under
Nazi occupation were frozen. But some time later, the bank transferred
the man's money to Benin at the direction ofthe Nazis.
Those are just some of the ways Swiss bankers acted in collusion with
the Nazis during the Holocaust and later prevented the heirs of Nazi
...nctims from obtaining the money in their relatives' Swiss bank
accounts. They were detailed in a report this week by Paul Volcker, the
former chairman ofthe U.S. Federal Reserve, who headed a three-year,
$500 million forensic search of Swiss bank accounts opened between 1933
and 1945.
The search was agreed upon in 1996 to answer charges by Jewish groups
that Swiss banks had hoarded perhaps billions of dollars deposited by
Jews before the war who were later murdered in the Holocaust. The Swiss
banks claimed in 1995 to have found only 775 Holocaust-era accounts
totaling $32 million.
SUMVOrs and their heirs sued the banks when newly declassified
American documents were released in 1996 that revealed Swiss collusion
with the Nazi war effort - despite their official stance of neutrality.
The Volcker report said the search by 650 auditors of 4.1 million
accounts from 254 Swiss banks located 53,886 heretofore undisclosed
accounts that were believed opened by Jewish Nazi ~ctims. It said that
33,692 of those accounts had been closed - but not by the account
holders - and that the remaining accounts were still open but dormant
and contained $300 million in tOday's valuation.
Elan Steinberg, executive director ofthe Wond Jewish Congress, said
the Volcker report found that ofthe closed accounts, 3,000 had been
bled dry through bank fees or were looted by the Nazis. It said it was
not known who closed the remaining accounts.
And because the bank records were largely incomplete, the auditors were
able to determine from only 11 percent of the accounts how much money
was there before they were closed. That figure added up to $400 million.
.
Based upon that number, Steinberg said it is believed that the closed
accounts may have held as much as $1.2 billion.
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Volcker said he would recommend that the findings not upset the $1.25
billion settlement of the class-action lawsuits that was reached with '
two major Swiss banks in August 1998. Brooklyn Federal Judge Edward
Korman is now conducting hearings to determine if the settlement is
fair. The settlement came after threats by the comptrollers in several
cities and states led by New York City Comptroller Alan Hevesi - to
boycott Swiss banks unless the suits were resolved.
Both Jewish groups and Swiss bankers said they were gratified by the
auditors' findings.
"The report has confirmed the worst fears of Holocaust SUNVOrs and
validated their charges of a half century," said Steinberg.
Georg Krayer, chairman ofthe Swiss BankerS Association, said the
auditors had found that the "conduct ofthe banks during the period in
question was correct. ... The banks did not discriminate against any
customers on the grounds of origin and did not illegally appropriate any
assets of Holocaust ~ctims. They have allowed Holocaust ...nctims or
their descendents the same access to accounts which are rightfully
theirs as they have done for all other customers .... Consequently, the
dramatic and sweej:lng accusations leveled against Swiss banks four years
ago have proved to be unfounded.
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�Although acknowledging that the report did rewal cases of misconduct,
Krayer said some were transgressions by indhlidual bank employees who
were punished when it was discowred.
And he said the "banks regret" the other criticisms in the report.
The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, .
welcomed the Volcker report but said that for the "Swiss banks to now
engage in an orgy of self-praise is not warranted. You haw to remember
that they had to be dragged into conducting this investigation after
saying for years that they had nothing. One would have hoped for
humility, contrition and remorse rather than self vindication."
And he said the banks' insistence that the names of banks criticized in
the report not be rewaled means "this whole thing is still incomplete."
The report found that banks broke into the safe deposit boxes of
presumably murdered Jews and sold the valuables inside to pay fof.the
boxes' rental fees.
In another case, it found that, contrary to the wishes of a Russian Jew·
who wanted his money invested in less-risky, fixed securities, the bank
invested in more volatile equity securities. As a result, by 1962 the
account had swelled to more than 14 times its 1930 value. The bank then
changed the account records to make it appear that there had been no
profits and it pocketed theeamings. The bank stonewalled the
depositor's heirs who inquired about the account. Only after the bank
ombudsman requested a search did the bank inform the heirs ofthe
account's existence and settle with them.
Rabbi Mal'Jin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the
auditors' findings prowd that the $1.25 billion settlement was fair and
not exorbitant, as many Swiss citizens had charged.
"This is not the story of a charitable Switzenand that out of its own
goodwill is giving away funds to the survivors ofthe Holocaust when no
money was due," he said. "This is the story of money being returned to
the rightful owners. This is not an act of charity, it is an act of
justice."
In another development, the American Jewish Committee this week released
the names of 255 German companies that allegedly used forced and slaw
labor during the Nazi era and appealed to them to contribute to a fund
to compensate those people. So far, only about 24 companies and the
German govemment haw agreed to contribute about $4 billion to the
fund. Attomeys for the laborers are asking twice that much and
President Bill Clinton has suggested $5 billion. according to a source
close to the negotiations.
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12:00 p.m. Dec 09, 1999 Eastem
BUDAPEST, Dec 9 (Reuters) Hungary announced plans on Thursday to
renovate a disused Budapest synagogue as a Holocaust museum to answer a
rightful claim of the Jewish community.
"An old and just demand of both the Jewish community and the Hungarian
nation as a whole will now be fulfilled, n Minister for Culture Jozsef
Hamori said.
He told Reuters the museum, in the heart of what was Budapest's Jewish
district, would also commemorate gypsies who died in Nazi concentration
camps and on work gangs.
Some 600,000 Hungarian Jews perished in the Holocaust, along with 30,000
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�Hungarian gypsies.
"At the suggestion oftheJewish community, this will also serve as a
remembrance of the 30,000 gypsies who died," Hamori said.
He put the cost of the project at 350 million Hungarian forints ($1.40
million) and said it would be paid out of govemment funds.
"We hope to open in 2001, sometime in or near August, to connect to the
millennium ofthe Hungarian nation," Hamori said.
"This is not just an exclusively Jewish matter, this is something that
connects to the whole Hungarian society."
The museum will contain exhibits documenting the Holocaust in Hungary as
well as materials provided by Hungary's Auschwitz Foundation, a private
organisation·which studies the period and Jewish issues in Hungary.
libor Vamos, president of Auschwitz Foundation, said the museum and its
exhibits should go a long way towards reducing religious hatred,
intolerance and discrimination in Hungary.
Leading Hungarian Jewish organisations have warned recently of what they
perceive as outbreaks of anti-semitism and racism in Hungary.
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The (NY) Jewish Week
December 10, 1999/1 Tevet 5760
Jews, Catholics In 'Search For Truth'
By: Eric J. Greenberg, Staff Writer
Scholars from both faiths announce team to study Church's role during
the Holocaust,
For the first time in history, Jewish and Catholic scholars - with the
backing ofthe Vatican - will work together to try and determine what
the Catholic Church did and did not do to save Jews during the
Holocaust.
Calling the project both "bizarre" and unprecedented, six historians
from around the world, three Jewish and three Catholic, pledged to
search for the truth, notwithstanding any political or religious
pressures.
The new "Intemational Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission" also
asserted in a press conference at New York's Catholic Center on Tuesday
that it will seek full and open access to a variety of official and
unofficial Vatican documents from World War II, and archival records
from other countries all to help shed light on an emotional issue that
has dogged Catholic..Jewish relations for a half century.
"It seems to us that the search for truth, wherever it may lead can best
be promoted in an environment in which there is a full access to
archival documentation and other historical evidence," the team said in
a statement. "Ultimately. openness is the best policy for a mature and
balanced historical assessment."
The Vatican has steadfastly refused to open its archives of wartime
records, despite calls to do so by prominent figures ranging from New
York's Archbishop John Cardinal O'Connor to U.S. Deputy Treasury
Secretary Stuart Eizenstat.
Instead, the Vatican's top liaison to Jews, Edward Cardinal Cassidy,
last year proposed that scholars study an obscure 11-volume set of
Vatican material about Jews published more than 20 years ago. A host of
other countries have already opened their war records and are conducting
historical examinations.
Technically, the team has been assembled to analyze those volumes and
search for any related or missing documentation that may reveal more
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�information. One team member, Father John Morley, a Seton Hall
University professor. published a book. "Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews
During the Holocaust 1939-1943," based on the 11 I.Olumes.
The three Jewish scholars Robert S. Wistrich of Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Michael R. Marrus of the University of Toronto and Bemard
Suchecky of Free University of Brussels - were chosen by the
Intemational Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, a
coalition of Jewish religious and secular groups.
The three Catholic scholars - the Rev. Gerald Fogarty ofthe Uni-.ersity
of Virginia, Eva Fleischner of Montclair St~te Uni-.ersity in New Jersey,
and Morley - were appointed by Cardinal Cassidy's Commission for
Religious Relations with the Jews.
They met for the first time last Monday and di'l.tded up the 11 volumes
for study.
No timetable has been established for work to be completed or how far
ranging it will be.
Wistrich said the effort was strange because the 11 I.Olumes ha-.e been
publicly available for so long and nothing new has emerged from them.
"This is bizarre - we're going to IQok for what is not there - gaps,
omissions, and potential further documentation," Wistrich said.
But he called the project "a small window" of opportunity to seek
answers to such contro-.ersies about the so-called "silence" of wartime
Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust. "I see it as a firststep."
"We're seeking to reach the truth, although we may not agree with
different interpretations of documents," said Fogarty. "We should look
back and at least acknowledge what we have done wrong. One of the
greatest obstacles to Christianity in our time is, unfortunately,
Christians."
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But the scholars, who will work from their home bases, noted that with
new wartime documents becoming available around the world, and with the
turn ofthe century, now is the time for an unvarnished examination of
the historical record.
IJCIC chairman Seymour Reich said the Vatican and private sources are
funding the project, but he said he would seek to raise more money from
foundations.
Asked about a possible conflict of interest between the project and
their loyalty to their res·pecti-.e religions (two of the scholars ar~
priests), the historians said it would be a matter of indi'l.tdual '
conscience, but that the scholarly pursuit should take precedence.
Reich, quoting Cassidy said, "We're not afraid ofthe truth."
But Wistrich cautioned that the project could quickly "hit a brick wall"
ifthe team is not granted access by the Vatican and other sources.
"I certainly hope that would not happen."
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Chasing Bad Guys
By: J. J. GOLDBERG,
The Justice Department's Nazi-hunters are busier than e-.er, and about to
get e-.en busier.
Ellen'l.tUe, N.y., is a little ..nllage in the Catskills, population
4,200, located 90 miles northwest of New York City. It's the heart of
what used to be the Borscht Belt, before Jews disco-.ered Aspen and
Antigua. Times have changed, but Ellen'l.tlle still boasts a couple of
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�grand kosher resort hotels and a brace oftiny bungalow colonies
catering to Jewish families fleeing New York's summer heat.
Now it tums out that the owner of one of Ellen\4I1e's most popular
bungalow colonies is a suspected a Nazi war criminal. Federal
prosecutors charged last month that Mykola Wasylyk, 76, had seMd as an
armed guard in two SS slave-labor camps in his native Poland during
World War II, after recei~ng training at the notorious Trawniki SS
training camp. The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal court on
Nov. 18 to revoke Wasylyk's U.S. citizenship, saying he lied about his
.
war crimes when he came here in 1949.
It sounds like a scene out of some drugstore thriller, but for attomey
Eli -Rosenbaum it's just another day's work. Rosenbaum, 46, heads up the
Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, or OSI. That's
the unit in charge of hunting down former Nazi war criminals and getting
them sent back where they came from.
This is a strange moment in Nazi-hunting. On one hand, there's more work
than ever. Researchers are still digesting e~dence newly available from
So~et archives post-Cold War. Huge battles loom with Germany, which is
resisting taking back deported Nazis, and with Japan, which hasn't begun
to acknowledge its war crimes and help prosecutors.
At the same time, there's growing cooperation between Nazi-hunters and
the new crop of international war-cri mes prosecutors. Much of the
expertise at the Bosnian and Rwandan war crimes tribunals comes from
govemment Nazi-hunters.
Last month the Senate voted to expand the OSl's mandate and put it in
charge of chasing down modern-day war criminals, including Serbs and
Rwandans. If the House agrees, the OSI will be in business for a long
ti me to come.
And yet, Nazi hunters say, it seems lately the world can't get its
attention away from Nazi gold, Nazi art, Nazi bank and insurance looting
and other assorted Nazi plunder. Folks forget that people like Eli
Rosenbaum are still out there hunting real Nazis. It rankles - and costs
support.
Rosenbaum joined the OSI as a Harvard law student intem when the agency
was first set up in 1979. He's been there almost continuously ever
since. He now heads a staff of 33, including 11 lawyers and eight
professional historians who comb archives for e~dence.
The job has brought Rosenbaum into contact with some pretty awful
characters. They shot and clubbed Jews, herded them into gas chambers,
worked them to death, or supervised others who did the dirty work. A few
were senior Nazi officials, but most were concentration camp guards and
Nazi police goons. They came from Germany and Austria, Lithuania,
Poland, Croatia, Ukraine. The OSI found them Ii~ng new lives in
Cleveland and Chicago, Tampa, St. Louis and Brooklyn, not to mention
Ellen~lIe.
They're all frail old men now. Inside a courtroom they tend to look tiny
and lost. But they fight back like tigers. One died after a shootout
with police outside his Kansas City home in 1997, just after the OSI
filed charges. Another pulled a gun once on Rosenbaum. Two committed
suicide when charges were filed. Many beat deportation by dying of old
age first. "Our major opponent now is Father lime," says Rosenbaum.
Technically, the OSI doesn't prosecute anyone for war crimes. It can
only take ci~1 action to strip someone's U.S. citizenship after prO'o.1ng .
that they committed war crimes and lied about it to immigration. Then
they're sent home, hopefully to face prosecution, though few have. Some
retum to heroes' welcomes and live out their lives in peace. They even
get their monthly Social Security checks uninterrupted, ifthey leave
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�before being deported.
Still, OSI is the most successful Nazi-hunting organization in the
world, bar none. Over the years it has investigated .1,500 persons and
taken action against about 11 O. Sixty-three have had their citizenship
revoked and 52 have been kicked out ofthe country. Eighteen cases are
now in court, and 260 people are under investigation. Four new cases
have been filed since August alone.
And at a time when nearly every federal government operation is under
budgetary siege, Congress recently raised the OSl's $3.7 annual budget
to $5.5 million so it could speed up its work.
By contrast, Great Britain dissolved its war-crimes investigation unit
this fall after bringing three cases and winning just one. Australia
dissolved its war-climes unit in 1994, ha~ng failed to con~ct or
deport single war criminal. Canada's war-crimes unit is mired in local
controversy and hasn't filed a case in several years. Austria hasn't
prosecuted a war criminal since the 1970s. Germany is about to convert
its war-crimes investigation office into a research archive. "We're
speeding up while Europe is shutting down," says Rosenbaum. "Europe has
basically abdicated its moral and legal responsibility."
The record isn't perfect. OSI's biggest foul-up to date was John
Demjanjuk, the Cleveland steelworker identified as the notorious
Treblinka guard "Ivan the Terrible." He was deported in 1986 to Israel,
where he was publicly tried, convicted and sentenced to die. But
Israel's Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 1993, saying he
wasn't the camp guard named in the indictment.
The mix-up prompted a sharp rebuke by a federal judge, who claimed
outside influences - apparently Jewish groups like the Anti-Oefamation
League - were improperly influencing OSI decisions. OSI got the
allegation withdrawn, and last spring it refiled Demjanjuk's case. 'But
the black eye hurt.
OSI's critics - there are many, particularly in the Ukrainian-American
and Baltic-American communities - say hunting Nazi war criminals has
become a pointless vendetta. They often depict the OSl's suspects as
patriots who cooperated with Germany to fight off Russia. More often
they simply claim it's time to lay the past to rest.
Rosenbaum doesn't buy it. "To do nothing in these cases would be to send
the worst possible message," he says. "We need to send a message to
would-be perpetrators of crimes against humanity that if they dare to
act on their pernicious fantasies, there is a real chance that the
ci~lized world will pursue them, if necessary to the farthest comers
of the earth, if necessary for the rest of their lives."
Yes, even to the Catskills.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
December 9, 1999
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT.
Today I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 2401. the "U.S Holocaust
Assets commission Ext@nsion.Act of 1999." This legislation, which
extends the mandate of the Presidential Advisory Commission on
Holocaust Assets in the United States for 1 year, is a clear
demonstration of America's determination to p~rsue justice for
Holocaust victims· and their families.
The United states has led the renewed struggle for justice and
compensation on behalf of the victims of the Holocaust. One. year ago,
delegations from 44 countries and 13 nongovernmental organizations met
ac the Washington Conference on Holoca~st-Era Assets convened by the
Department of State and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. During the
Washington Conference, I announced the public and governmental members
of the Presidential Advisory Commission, which was created to
investigate and advise on the fate of Holocaust victims' assets that
came into the possession or control of the United Staces Gove~nment.
Sinc@ then, the Presidential Advisory Commission has been hard at
work and estimates that it will have to examine more than 45 million
pages of documents, To our Nation'B cr@dit, the amount of inforrtla.tion
to be reviewed increases every week as remaining Nazi-@ra documents are
declassified. The U.S. Holocaust Assets Commission Extension Act of
1999 provides the Presiden~ial Advisory Commission with additional time
and authorizes additional resources needed to complete the review of
the historical record of Am@rican ae~ivity during one of the darkest
periods of this c@ntury.
The Commission's research demonstrates irrefutably that we in the
united States are willing to hold ourselves to the same high standard
of truth about Holocaust assets to which we have held other na~ions,
The extension of the Presidential Advisory Commission sends a strong
message, both at home and abroad, that we are co~itted to examining
difficult aspects ·of·· our history and determining how to build a better
world for our children in the next millennium.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
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HiFirst things first, Presdient Clinton signed into law last night HR
2401, the bill to extend the Presidential Commission for one year and
authorize additional appropriations. His statement and our release are
included below.
In other news:
Bergier (AP and Reuters wire stories)
Germany Hints at Higher Nazi Labor Pay Deal
Text: Eizenstat on Holocaust Forced and Slave Labor Negotiations
Generali admits diSCriminating against Israeli Holocaust claimants
Until Monday,
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 9, 1999
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Today I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 2401, the "U.S. Holocaust
Assets Commission Extension Act of 1999." This legislation, which'
extends the mandate of the Presidential Advisory Commission on
Holocaust Assets in the United States for 1 year, is a clear
demonstration of America's determination to pursue justice for
Holocaust victims and their families.
The United States has led the renewed struggle for justice and
compensation on behalf of the victims of the Holocaust. One year ago,
delegations from 44 countries and 13 nongovernmental organizations met
at the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets convened by the
Department of State and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. During the
Washington Conference, I announced the public and governmental members
of the Presidential Advisory Commission, which was created to'
investigate and advise on the fate of Holocaust victims' assets that
came into the possession or control of the United States Government.
Since then, the Presidential Advisory Commission has been hard at
work and estimates that it will have to examine more than 45 million
pages of documents. To our Nation's credit, the amount of information
to be reviewed increases every week as remaining Nazi-era documents are
declassified. The U.S. Holocaust Assets Commission Extension Act of
1999 provides the Presidential Advisory Commission with additional time
and authorizes additional resources needed to complete the review of
the historical record of American activity during one of the dar1<est
periods of this century.
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�The Commission's research demonstrates irrefutably that we in the
United States are willing to hold ourselves to the same high standard
of truth about Holocaust assets to which we have held other nations.
The extension ofthe Presidential Ad\1sory Commission sends a strong
message, both at home and abroad, that we are committed to examining
difficult aspects of our history and determining how to build a better
world for our children in the next millennium.
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WILLIAM J. CLINTON
lHE WHITE HOUSE,
December 9, 1999.
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December 10 10: 11 AM ET
Swiss Release Holocaust Report
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS Associated Press Writer
BERN, Switzerland (AP) Switzerland blocked refugees from entering its
borders. at the height of the Holocaust, turning back thousands of Jews
and others who were later killed by Nazi Germany, historians said today
in a government-sponsored report.
"Switzerland declined to help people in mortal danger," said the
956-page study by an intemational panel of historians, which described
its report as a lesson "for all humanity."
The Swiss government commissioned the report to reevaluate the World War
II years, after the neutral country came under attack by Jewish
organizations for harboring dormant bank accounts of Holocaust \1ctims
and buying Nazi gold.
With unprecedented access to national archives, the panelled by Swiss
historian Jean-Francois Bergier spent 18 months preparing the report,
the most definitive yet on the Switzerland's wartime treatment of
refugees.
Many of the facts were already known, but the historians said that among
new material were details on the origins ofthe notorious "J'stamp
that Germans started putting in Jewish passports in 1938 to tip off the
Swiss.
They were unsure whether the idea came from the Germans or the Swiss.
President Ruth Dreifuss, whose own father skirted Swiss laws to bring in
Jewish refugees, said she was saddened by the report's findings. She
read a statement by the Swiss cabinet reiterating the government's
apologies to \1ctims.
"Nothing can make good the consequences of decisions taken at the time,
and we pay our respects before the pain of those who were denied access
to our territory and were abandoned to unspeakable suffering,
deportation and death." the cabinet said.
But while acknowledging that Switzerland's asylum policy at the time was
"marred by errors, omissions and compromises," the government
criticized historians for paying too little attention to the
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�intemational situation at the time.
The report ignored "fears generated by the threat facing Switzerland,
the uncertainty about the future, as well as the necessity of
maintaining foreign trade to ensure the country's sUMval," the
government said.
The nine-member panel, which included historians from Switzer1and, the
United States, Israel, Britain and Poland, refused to try to compare
Switzer1and with other countries because there were too many
differences.
They noted, however, that the United States and many nations that might
have done more to help refugees failed to do so.
But Saul Friedlaender, an Israeli member ofthe panel, noted that other
neutral countries, like Spain and Portugal, fared better than
Switzer1and, taking in "very many" refugees.
Like Switzerland, Sweden restricted Jewish immigration from 1938 to
1942, but reversed its policy when it became clear in 1942 that the
Germans had embarked on the "final solution" of annihilating Jews.
From that point on, Sweden "did everything to let in Jews" from
Nazi-occupied Scandinavian countries, Friedlaender said.
It was only in July of 1944, less than a year before the end of the war,
that persecution for being Jewish was regarded by the Swiss govemment
as a reason for asylum.
The panel did credit Switzerland with sa",ng 21,000 Jews during Wor1d
War II, but said many escaped harm because they sneaked into the country
and reached the interior where they were allowed to remain.
It said records exist of more than 24,000 refugees who were tumed back
to the Nazis when "Switzerland was their last hope." It is impossible
to tell how many did not try to leave Nazi-controlled territory because
they heard of Switzer1and's tough policies or because they were refused
visas.
The Nazis and their collaborators killed 6 million Jews in the
Holocaust, the systematic genocide perpetrated during World War II.
A few key Swiss officials created a policy that refused even to consider
Jews as refugees who might use Switzerland as a transfer point to
freedom elsewhere.
"A more humane policy might have saved thousands of refugees from being
killed by the Nazis and their accomplices," the report said.
The report did praise indi",dual officials for sticking out their necks
to help and noted that Swiss people rose up in anger when they learned
Jewish refugees who had crossed the border were being sent back to the
Nazis.
The report debunks one accusation against the Swiss, saying that.
according to available documents, no deportation trains headed for death
camps traveled through Switzerland from France or Italy.
Ephraim Zuroff, director of the Israeli branch of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center, praised Switzerland for "finally confronting its history" and
said the report and efforts to compensate SUMVOrs and heirs for losses
of Holocaust-era assets are very positive signs .
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03:44 a.m. Dec 10,1999 Eastem
By Michael Shields
ZURICH, Dec 10 (Reuters) Switzerland might have saved thousands of
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�Jews from the Holocaust if it had pursued a humane rather than a
cold-hearted, legalistic refugee policy in World War Two, an
international panel of historians said on Friday.
The controversial "Bergier Report" condemned Swiss wartime officials
- with a few notable exceptions - for basically closing the border to
desperate Jews even though Berne was well aware of the Nazis' murderous
rampage.
It blamed Swiss anti-Semitism for a legal but heartless refugee policy
that turned away at least 24,500 Jews and probably more between January
1940 and the end of the war.
Neutral Switzer1and, long proud of its humanitarian tradition, did take
in 51,000 refugees during the war, of which around 20,000 were Jews. But
the panel contended the state could have saved many more Jewish lives at
little cost to itself.
Neutral Switzer1and set up the panel in 1996 to examine the country's
wartime role as a financial centre with close commercial ties to Nazi
Germany, and its report has sparked emotional reactions even before its
official publication.
It was eagerly awaited not primarily for its historical findingswhich largely confirmed a wartime policy for which the Swiss government
apologised in 1995 - but for the way it interpreted the historical
record.
It was especially tough on the decision to shut the border in 1942 to
refugees persecuted just because they were Jews. At this stage the Nazis
were systematically killing thousands of Jews every day in a bid to wipe
them off the face ofthe earth.
"For persecuted people, the journey to the Swiss border was already
fraught with great danger. When they reached the Swiss border,
Switzerland was their last hope," the panel found.
"By creating additional barriers for them to overcome, Swiss officials
helped the Nazi regime achieve its goals, whether intentionally or
not."
The commission found no e~dence that opening the border would have
triggered an Axis invasion or provoked insurmountable economic
difficulties despite wartime shortages.
"Nevertheless, Switzerland declined to help people in mortal danger. A
more humane policy might have saved thousands of refugees from being
killed by the Nazis and their accomplices."
CRIllCISM OF "J" STAMP
The report also found special fault with Swiss officials' push that led
Germany in 1938 to start putting a "J" stamp in Jews' passports,
making it easier for Switzerland to prevent them from entering the
country.
"Without Swiss pressure, the passports would not have been stamped
until later, perhaps not at all. This would have made it less difficult
for refugees to find a country willing to accept them," the report
concluded.
"For many, Switzerland would not have been the goal oftheir flight.
Without the 'J' stamp many ";ctims of National Socialism would have been
able to escape persecution to Switzerland or another country."
The panel, headed by Swiss historian Jean-Francois Bergier, hoped its
findings - which follow a separate report this week that found nearly
54,000 Swiss bank accounts may be linked to Holocaust ~ctims - would
trigger a serious debate about a wartime past long cloaked in national
myths.
Switzerland's refugee policy stemmed from fears of economic hardship,
similar beha~our by other democracies, the country's wartime isolation
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�and an emigration policy that for decades had sought to curb foreign
especially Jewish - influence.
"We see anti-Semitism as an important reason for the fact that the
persecution of Jews was either not correctly recognised or that no
consequences to help the '.o1ctims followed from this knowledge," the
report found.
NO DEPORTEE TRAINS
In other key findings, the report said trains with Jewish deportees from
France and Italy did not cross Switzerland on their way to the gas
chambers in Eastem Europe.
Swiss intermediaries also played a role in half the cases where Nazis
extorted money from Dutch Jews eager to emigrate.
In general, Switzerland turned back Jewish refugees on the border since
1938, but did not as a rule expel those who had made it across illegally
and moved into the country's interior.
Nevertheless, expulsions in Geneva in the autumn of 1942 showed the
opposite was also true. Here refugees were forcibly expelled and at
times directly handed owr to their tormentors.
Those responsible were later comActed, but officials in Berne simply
watched at first and hoped for a deterrent effect.
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Germany Hints at Higher Nazi Labor Pay Deal
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany, eager to break a deadlock over compensation
claims for Nazi-era forced laborers, appeared to open the door on Friday
for a higher offer just three weeks after insisting its companies could
not pay any more.
Otto Lambsdorff, the German govemment's top negotiator, said in a
newspaper inteNew that Germany would be willing to discuss a "worthy
figure" put forth as a counter bid to the last offer of eight billion
marks ($4.2 billion) made in November.
Lawyers representing some of the 2.3 million elderly SUNVOrs ofthe
Nazis' regime of forced and slave labor haw been demanding a settlement
of 10 to 15 billion marks. Lambsdorff had pre'.o1ously called the demands
"unrealistic."
"In Gennany we will reconsider the situation if a figure worthy of
discussion is put forth," Lambsdorff told the Berliner Zeitung daily.
The paper said he decli ned to define ''worthy,'' but added he still
ruled out an amount above 10 billion marks.
"Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said the figure of eight billion
marks is the upper limit and I have neither the authority nor the desire
to contradict that," Lambsdorff said.
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Hinting there was now room to negotiate a figure abow eight billion
marks, Lambsdorff urged the U.S. gowrnment and the lawyers representing
the \Actims to put forward a new offer.
"Once this has happened and the demands are not unrealistic, we will be
able to enter new talks to find a solution," he said. "But anything
abow 10 billion marks is not a basis for negotiations."
Legal Protection Sought
A leading daily, Die Welt, said on Friday a deal would be reached over
the weekend. It said industry sources expected the outlines of a
breakthrough to emerge by Monday at the latest.
U.S. lawyers said late on Thursday in New York they were working on a
counter-offer. They said they hope to haw a new bid to present to the
top U.S. negotiator, Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat, on
Fridayaftemoon.
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�Eizenstat said in a statement late on Thursday he was working on a
number of fronts to try to bridge the gap.
"It would be a tragedy for this initiative to collapse now when the
parties are closer than they have ever been to a settlement amount," he
said.
About 60 German companies have offered to pay five billion marks, and
the government has added another three billion marks, for a fund for the
SUl\1vors..
The fund was set up in February by some of Germany's top companies,
including DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen and Allianz, amid threats of legal
action.
In return for creating the fund, they want a guarantee from the U.S.
government that they will be protected from all future legal action on
the issue in the United States.
The latest deadline for a deal passed on Wednesday.
Lambsdorlf called the eight billion marks an extraordinary sum of money
and said he hoped the talks would not collapse at a point when an
agreement appears to be within reach.
"There are eight billion marks on offer on the table," Lambsdorlftold
the Sueddeutsche Zeitung in separate intel\1ew. "That may not yet be
the same as a bird in the hand, but it is in any event a rather fat
bird...·
Lambsdorlf had said on November 18 after the talks missed an earlier
deadline that it was time to take the German offer of eight billion
marks or leave it. He had said the companies could not pay any more than
five billion marks. He had said it would even be difficult for German
industry to raise that amount.
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Text: Eizenstat on Holocaust Forced and Slave Labor Negotiations
(Nov. 9: "This is the time for all sides to be flexible") (290)
Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat made a statement
December 9 concerning the latest round of talks on a compensation fund
for people who worked at forced and slave labor under the Nazis during
World War II.
"This is the time for all sides to be flexible, to remain calm and to
stay with this process, which offers the best chance of pro~ding
prompt justice to sur.h1ng slave and forced laborers and legal peace
for German companies in the United States," Eizenstat said.
Following is the text of his statement:
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U.S. Department ofthe Treasury
December 9, 1999
STATEMENT BY TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY STUART E. EIZENSTAT ON
HOLOCAUST FORCED AND SLAVE LABOR NEGOllAllONS
We lare working on a number of fronts to bridge the gap between the
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�parties. I had a constructive discussion today with Count Lambsdorff,
Germany's representatiw. The plaintiffs attomeys are conducting
intensiw meetings this week. I expect to be in touch with Count
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I beli~ve that it would be a tragedy for this initiatiw to collapse
now when the parties are closer than they have ever been to a
. settl~ment amount. This is the time for all sides to be flexible, to
remain calm and to stay with this process, which offers the best
chance ofprm.1ding prompt justice to survi..nng slave and forced
labor~rs and legal peace for German companies in the United States.
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Gene1rali admits discriminating against Israeli Holocaust claimants
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JERUSALEM (December 10) - Insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali has
admitted diSCriminating against Israelis and other non-American
Holodaust survivors in paying out insurance claims, in a letter obtained
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by The Jerusalem Post.
The letter, written December 2 to a lawyer who represents Holocaust
..nctinis , states that "we have elected, not without encouragement from
certain us quarters, to start dealing as very first priority with claims
origin~ating from the United States. This we haw done to the extant that.
at this point in time we haw addressed over 70 offer letters to as many
claim'ants, mainly residents of New York, California, and Florida."
Those three states haw been pressuring Generali, and the other
companies that are part of the Intemational Commission on Holocaust Era
Insu~nce Claims chaired by former US secretary of state Lawrence
Eagleburger, to resolw the issue or face being banned from selling
insu~nce in those states.
The I~tter, according to Bobby Brown, the Israeli representatiw on the
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comfTlission, seems to be a clear admission that Generali is attempting to
gain favor with the insurance commissioners from those three states who
are abtiw in the commission, by pressing for survivors located there to .'
be p~id immediately.
"Thislseems to be an outrageous practice of discrimination against
Holocaust survivors based on geography," said Brown. "It makes a mockery
ofthe moral aspects that we are trying to achieve."
Amihud Ben-Porat, Generali's consultant in Israel, denied that there is
any ~ia~ against non-Americans. ".There is no discrimination against
Israel,is, that's nonsense," Ben-Porat said. "If Generali is approached
directly under the Eagleburger process, it handles the case. Anyone,
anywhere, can approach Generali today directly and be processed
equal'ly."
The Eagleburger process, known as a "fast-track" procedure, allows
clairrlants who haw some paper e..ndence of a policy to quickly obtain an
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estiniated amount for settlement and, ifthere is a different evaluation
later,lto be paid the difference. "Slow-track" involws claimants who
haw no physical e..ndence of a policy claim.
Brown said he has submitted around 20 percent of the total of fast-track
cas~. Ofthese, offers of settlement were made in only two cases, and
neither were from Generali.
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�"I suspected for a long time that there has been a pattern of
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discrimination, but it was only upon seeing a copy of this letter that
my suspicions were confirmed," he said.
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One source within Generali said that since September 15, when the
fast-t~ck process became operatille, Generali has paid around $900,000
to 701 claimants , from some 250 applicants still being processed.
Browr said he is writing a letter to Eagleburger to complain that "it is
unbelievable that Holocaust \rictims be rated by political expediencies
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coming Wednesday in London.
"An ~xplanation of these unfair practices must be given to Holocaust
\rictims, and I intend to demand it publicly in London," Brown said.
"This!continues a pattern of injustice and discrimination against Jews
who perished and were neller compensated for their legitimate insurance
claim:s."
, The Eagleburger Commission was created last year to sollie the problem of
insurance policies dating back to the Holocaust that were neller paid to
policyholders or their heirs, and which have lain dormant in warehouses
arou~d Europe since the end of World War II. The insurers, faced with
laws4its totaling billions of dollars, agreed to participate in the
commission as a means for settling those claims,
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MEMORANDUM
To: Commission Staff
From:
Gene Sofer
Re: Staff Meeting on December 16 and 17
Date:
December 10, 1999
Next week,December 16 and 17, the Commission will have an all-staff
meeting. This meeting has several objectives, including a review of .
current research efforts and the work plans developed by each team and
the development of an integrated research plan with target dates for the'
component sections.
The session on Thursday, December 16, will be held from 9:00 - 5:00 at
the White House Conference Center, 726 Jackson Street, on the west side
of Lafciyette Park. We have scheduled one hour for lunch and plan to
have lunch together in the Conference Center. We will have lunch
(sandwiches, sodas, and cookies) brought in at a cost of$8.00 per
person Qncluding food, delivery, tax, and tip). Alternatively, you may
bring lunch with you in the moming. To participate in the catered
lunch, please e-mail or phone Katherine Page at kpage@pcha.gov or (202)
371-6400 x442 before the end ofthe day on Monday. Payment can be made
at the Conference Center on Thursday. If Katherine does not hear from
you, she will assume you are bringing your lunch.
The meeting on Friday, December 17, will be 9:00 - 3:00. The morning
session, 9:00 -12:15, will be in the White House Conference Center.
Lunch will be on your own. The afternoon session, 1:30 - 3:00, will be
held in the 8th floor conference room at 901 15th Street, the building
where the Commission office is located.
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Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets
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<p>The Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, formed in 1998, was charged with investigating what happened to the assets of victims of the Holocaust that ended up in the possession of the United States Federal government. The final report of the Commission, <a href="http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/pcha/PlunderRestitution.html/html/Home_Contents.html"> “Plunder and Restitution: Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and Staff Report"</a> was submitted to President Clinton in December 2000.</p>
<p>Chairman - Edgar Bronfman<br /> Executive Director - Kenneth Klothen</p>
<p>The collection consists of 19 series. The first fifteen series of the collection are composed mostly of photocopied federal records. These records were reproduced at the National Archives and Records Administration by commission members for their research. The records relate to Holocaust assets created between the mid 1930’s and early 1950’s by a variety of U. S. Government agencies and foreign sources.</p>
<p>Subseries:<br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Art+and+Cultural+Property+">Art and Cultural Property</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Gold+">Gold</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Gold+Team+Review+Form+Binders+">Gold Team Review Form Binders</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Art+and+Cultural+Property+and+%E2%80%9COthers%E2%80%9D+Review+Form+Binders">Art and Cultural Property and “Others” Review Form Binders</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Non-Gold+Financial+Assets+Review+Form+Binders">Non-Gold Financial Assets Review Form Binders</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=History+Associates+Binder+">History Associates Binder</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Non-Gold+Financial+Assets+Review+Form+Binders+%282%29">Non-Gold Financial Assets Review Form Binders (2)</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Financial+Assets+Documents">Financial Assets Documents</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=RG+84%2C+Foreign+Service+Posts+of+the+State+Department%E2%80%94Turkey">RG 84, Foreign Service Posts of the State Department—Turkey</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Financial+Assets+Documents">Financial Assets Documents</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?search=&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%5BJewish+Restitution+Successor+Organization+%28JRSO%29%2C+Oral+Histories%5D&range=&collection=20&type=&user=&tags=&public=&featured=&exhibit=&submit_search=Search+for+items">[Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO), Oral Histories]</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=PCHA+Secondary+Sources">PCHA Secondary Sources</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Researcher+Notes">Researcher Notes</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Unnumbered+Documents+from+Archives+II+and+Various+Notes">Unnumbered Documents from Archives II and Various Notes</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=RG+260%2C+Finance+Inventory+Forms">RG 260, Finance Inventory Forms</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Reparations">Reparations</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Chase+National+Bank">Chase National Bank</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Administrative+Files">Administrative Files</a><br /><a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Art+%26+Cultural+Property+Theft">Art & Cultural Property Theft</a></p>
<p>Topics covered by these records include the recovery of confiscated art and cultural property; the reparation of gold and other financial assets; and the investigation of events surrounding capture of the Hungarian Gold Train at the close of World War II. These files contain memoranda, correspondence, inventories, reports, and secondary source material related to the final disposition of art and cultural property, gold, and other financial assets confiscated during the Holocaust.</p>
<p>For more information concerning this collection consult the<a href="http://clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/35992"> finding aid</a>.</p>
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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