Switzerland protected vast assets from Nazi Germany after World War II, according to a report. The report, issued Thursday by an international panel of historians studying Switzerland’s wartime past, said Swiss authorities evaded a postwar agreement to liquidate German assets and give the proceeds to the Allies so they could be used to compensate war victims.
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