At least one Swiss bank was involved in transferring money for high-ranking Nazi officials to Switzerland at the end of World War II, according to a recently released Swiss document. Some of the money allegedly transferred by the director of the Swiss Agricultural Bank originally belonged to people “who doubtless died in concentration camps or were otherwise murdered,” the document said.
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