Volume 45, Number 10 · June 11, 1998
How to Think About the Swiss
By Gordon A. Craig
The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine
by Jean Ziegler
Harcourt Brace, 322 pp., $27.00
Hitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold, and the Pursuit of Justice
by Isabel Vincent
Morrow, 351 pp., $25.00
Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust
by Adam LeBor
Birch Lane, 261 pp., $21.95
Movements of Nazi Gold: Uncovering the Trail
by Sidney Zabludoff
World Jewish Congress, 28 pp., $9.95 (paper)
In the modern history of Switzerland, the heroic days were those of 1847 and 1848. It was then that the Swiss liberals founded a new nation by defeating an attempted secession of the Catholic cantons in a short but crucial conflict, the Sonderbundskrieg, and then by providing the restored union with an effective constitution and the institutions that would help make it work.
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