The Holocaust Industry by Norman Finkelstein

Author:Norman Finkelstein [Finkelstein, Norman]
Language: eng
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Tags: History, Holocaust
ISBN: 9781781685617
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Publisher: Verso
Published: 2003-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

"Holocaust Insurance Team Racking Up Millions in Expenses as Survivors Wait," in Forward (30

July 1999), and Verena Dobnik, "Oscar Hammerstein's Cousin Sues German Bank Over Holocaust

Assets," in AP Online (20 November 1998) (Hertzberg).

12 Greg B. Smith, "Federal Judge OKs Holocaust Accord," in Daily News (7 January 2000). Janny

Scott, "Jews Tell of Holocaust Deposits," in New York Times (17 October 1996). Saul Kagan read a

draft of this section on the Claims Conference. The final version incorporates all his factual

corrections.

13 Elli Wohlgelernter, "Lawyers and the Holocaust," in Jerusalem Post (6 July 1999).

The Holocaust Industry: THE DOUBLE SHAKEDOWN

http://www.geocities.com/holocaustindustry/chapter_3.html (21 of 30) [23/11/2000 15:47:43]

14 For background to this section, see Tom Bower, Nazi Gold (New York: 1998), Itamar Levin, The

Last Deposit (Westport, Conn.: 1999), Gregg J. Rickman, Swiss Banks and Jewish Souls (New

Brunswick, NJ: 1999), Isabel Vincent, Hitler's Silent Partners (New York: 1997), Jean Ziegler, The

Swiss, the Gold and the Dead (New York: 1997). Although suffering from a pronounced anti-Swiss

bias, these books contain much useful information.

15 Levin, Last Deposit, chaps 6 - 7. For the erroneous Israeli report (although he doesn't mention it,

Levin was the author), see Hans J. Halbheer, "To Our American Friends," in American Swiss

Foundation Occasional Papers (n.d.).

16 Thirteen branches of six Swiss banks operated in the United States. Swiss banks loaned American

businesses $38 billion in 1994, and managed hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in

American stocks and banks for their clients.

17 In 1992, the WJC spawned a new organization, the World Jewish Restitution Organization

(WJRO), which claimed legal jurisdiction over the assets of Holocaust survivors, living and dead.

Headed by Bronfman, the WJRO is formally an umbrella of Jewish organizations modeled on the

Jewish Claims Conference.

18 Hearings before the committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, 23

April 1996. Bronfman's defense of "Jewish interests" is Highly selective. He is a major business

associate of the right-wing German media mogul Leo Kirch, notorious m recent years for trying to fire

a German newspaper editor who supported a supreme court decision barring Christian crosses in

public schools. (www.Seagram.com/company_info/history/main.html; Oliver Gehrs, "Einfluss aus der

Dose," in Tagesspiegel [l2 September 1995])

19 Rickman, Swiss Banks, 50 - 1. Bower, Nazi Gold, 299 - 300.

20 Bower, Nazi Gold, 295 ("mouthpiece"), 306 - 7; cf. 319. Alan Morris Schom, "The Unwanted

Guests, Swiss Forced Labor Camps, 1940 - 1944," A Report Prepared for the Simon Wiesenthal

center, January 1998. (Schom states these were "in reality slave-labor camps.") Levin, Last Deposit,

158, 188. For a sober treatment of the Swiss refugee camps, see Ken Newman (ed.), Swiss Wartime

Work Camps: A Collection of Eyewitness Testimonies, 1940 - 1945 (Zurich: I 999), and International

commission of Experts, Switzerland - Second World war, Switzerland and Refugees in the Nazi Era

(Bern: 1999), chap. 4.4.4. Saidel, Never Too Late, 222 3 ("Dachau", "sensationalistic"). Yossi Klein

Halevi, "Who Owns the Memory?" in Jerusalem Report (25 February 1993). Wiesenthal rents out his

name to the center for $90,000 annually.

21 Bower, Nazi Gold, xi, xv, 8, 9, 42, 44, 56, 84, 100, 150, 219, 304. Rickman, Swiss Banks, 219.

22 Thomas Sancton, "A Painful History," in Time, 24 February 1997.

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