Jonathan Ball wrote:
jps wrote:
Bull****, they collect tolls off of blood money.
Prove it.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.27H.swiss.pay.htm
Also:
IOM is one of the implementing organizations of the Swiss Banks
Settlement, an agreement reached between Holocaust survivors and Swiss
banks
in 1999 that resulted from litigation before the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of New York. The US$ 1.25 billion
Settlement
Fund serves to compensate for deposits in Swiss banks owned by
Holocaust victims that were never returned to them or their heirs, and
to pay
compensation for former slave labourers and certain other victims of
the Nazi regime.
IOM pays compensation to Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and
handicapped persons who were persecuted by the Nazi regime and
performed slave labour for German companies (Slave Labour Class I), and
to those persons who were either denied entry into Switzerland or
admitted but mistreated there as refugees (Refugee Class). IOM also
pays compensation to Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi persecution
who performed slave labour for certain Swiss companies (Slave Labour
Class II). As of the expiration of the filing deadline on 31 December
2001, IOM had received a total of 22,910 claims: 11,960 for Slave
Labour Class I, 10,751 for Slave Labour Class II and 199 Refugee Class
claims.
Also:
Swiss banks
were accused of
hanging on to
accounts
belonging to
Holocaust
victims.
As the historians
dug deeper, it
was revealed that
Switzerland had sent thousands of
Jewish refugees back to
Nazi-occupied Europe, and that
Swiss companies had traded with
the Germans.
The fund was set up and received
contributions from Swiss banks and
Swiss businesses.
The government said it was a
gesture of solidarity, and should not
be seen as compensation.
Nevertheless, the controversy
marked a change in Switzerland's
perception of its wartime history,
and raised questions among the
Swiss population over how ethical
its neutrality really was.
The fund will now be wound up.
But the separate and much larger
settlement of $1.25bn which was
agreed between lawyers acting for
holocaust survivors and for two
major Swiss banks has still to be
paid out.
I think that is sufficient proof that the claim was accurate.
LZ