cross-posted from : https://lemmy.world/post/42636804
A new probe of Swiss bank Credit Suisse discovered 890 previously undisclosed accounts with potential Nazi links, a U.S. senator said on Tuesday, amid efforts to shine a light on what he said was the bank’s hidden role in World War Two crimes.
Holders of the wartime accounts included the German Foreign Office, the SS paramilitary organization and a German arms-manufacturing company, U.S. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley told reporters in a briefing.
He gave no details on how much money might have been held in the accounts and their current status.
The organizations were part of the Nazi apparatus under German leader Adolf Hitler that enabled the Holocaust, which killed about 6 million Jewish people.
How is that even news? The Nazis hoarding their (often stolen) wealth in Swiss banks has been public knowledge for decades. Or is it just a sign of how badly educated and informed people, even the so-called elites, are in the US, because it took them until now to find out?
Not shocked. But sad. Neutrality is one of the best self serving lies.
Switzerland gets to rest too comfortably on the idea of “neutrality” as the blood of innocents pools in their bank vaults.
U.S. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley
lmao yeah okay pal
