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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 |
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