"the great extent to which the prosperity of the Swiss economy is based on riches accumulated through collaboration with Nazi Germany and the appropriation of Jewish bank accounts gives Swiss bankers and other members of the Swiss elite a strong stake in denying many portions of documented Holocaust history. Considerable pressure had to be brought to bear on the profit-making abilities of the Swiss banks, pressure generated by Jews who were themselves wealthy and influential within the world of international banking, before there was any acknowledgment that Swiss bankers and lawyers had stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from Jewish depositors. The origins of Swiss affluence have been normalized, and business as usual depends on that normalization."
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Aurora Levins Morales "Night Flying: Power, Memory, and Magic" in Medicine Stories (2019)
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