The "Volcker Report":
6.12.99 -- The 351-pages final report on Swiss nazi-era bank accounts was released by the Volcker Commission (aka "Independent Committee of Eminent Persons") on December 6, 1999. The report is not available on the Web. It is published by Staempfli Publishers in Bern, Switzerland, and can be ordered from them (verlag@staempfli.com, or fax +41 31 300 6688). It costs about $30 plus shipping.
The "Eizenstat Reports":
2.6.98 -- US and Allied Wartime and Postwar Relations and Negotiations with Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Turkey on Looted Gold and German External Assets and US Concerns About the Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury, also knows as the "Second Eizenstat Report". Coordinated by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Undersecretary of Commerce.
7.5.97 -- Preliminary Study on U.S. and Allied Efforts To Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II, also known as the "Eizenstat Report". Coordinated by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Undersecretary of Commerce, Special Envoy of the Department of State on Property Restitution in Central and Eastern Europe. Prepared by William Z. Slany, The Historian, US Department of State.
7.5.97 -- Résumé du Rapport Eizenstat en français.
7.5.97 -- Eizenstat Bericht, Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch.
7.5.97 -- Statement of Federal Councillor Flavio Cotti on the "Eizenstat Report" on behalf of the Swiss Federal Council.
22.5.97 -- Declaration of the Swiss Federal Council on the Eizenstat Report.
7.6.97 -- Who prolonged World War II, and When. Critical comments on a strange thesis of Switzerland prolonging the war, by Prof. Walter Hofer.
21.6.97 -- Die Schweiz und der Eizenstat-Bericht. Referat con Nationalrat Christoph Blocher.
Other Documents:
25.8.99 -- The future treatment of dormant assets, a speech by Victor Füglister, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Swiss Bankers Association.
18.8.99 -- A database of more than 29 000 Holocaust-era Jews who presumably had accounts in Swiss banks or were forced to declare their assets to the Austrian government, released from the Swiss Government and the Austrian State Achives, and posted on the Web by Avotaynu Inc., the publisher of works of Jewish genealogy.
17.3.99 -- Dormant accounts in Switzerland, an update. A text by Silvia Matile-Steiner, Member of the management of the Swiss Bankers' Association, distributed at a Media Seminar.
20.10.98 -- Report on Austrian Bank Accounts held with the Postsparkasse and looted by the nazis between 1938 and 1945 (including the full list of dormant accounts).
October 1998 -- An Open Letter to those committed to the truth, by Jürgen Ortmüller, a German citizen who sent the letter to the press and to politicians.
31.9.98 -- Text of the criminal complaint against Prof. Jean Ziegler, member of the Swiss Parliament, for "steps taken from abroad against the safety of Switzerland" for testifying in a US congressional hearing (July 1998) on the Holocaust Assets controversy. [Text in Deutsch] [Summary in English]
21.4.98 -- A Survey of Nazi and Pro-Nazi Groups in Switzerland 1930-45, by Alan Morris Schom, published by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
21.4.98 -- An UK Foreign Office's History Note on the question of the British policy towards enemy property during and after WW2. [in PDF format]
November 1997 -- An Open Letter to the Swiss, by Paul Savage, director of the National Center for Swiss-American Studies.
1.7.97 -- A letter by the Swiss Ambassador in London, François Nordmann, to the BBC to protest against the "violently biased account of Switzerland during the war period" aired on June 18 under the title "Nazi Gold and Jewish Money".
24.6.97 -- Life insurance policies of individuals who disappeared during WW2 that were paid to a Swiss government fiduciary by insurance company Winterthur Versicherung, as announced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
May 1997 -- Searching for Documents on Nazi Gold. by Greg Bradsher, Assistant Chief at the National Archives and Records Administration.
15.5.97 -- Statement of Ambassador Thomas Borer Before The United States Senate Commitee On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs.
