The Swiss government announced it is shutting down the special task force that oversaw efforts to examine the nation’s wartime past. The controversy regarding the nation’s Nazi-era financial dealings “has been settled,” the government said, explaining the March 31 decision. The settlement last August “between the major Swiss banks and the World Jewish Congress together with the class-action plaintiffs has finalized all financial claims on Switzerland.” The head of the task force, Thomas Borer, was later named Switzerland’s ambassador to Germany.
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