French banks recently provided lists of some 63,000 accounts held by Jews during World War II to a government commission investigating the systematic plunder of Jewish assets during the war. The Matteoli commission said in a statement last week that all but a handful of the banks and various financial institutions are cooperating with its investigation.
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