The U.S. State Department criticized a report which charged Switzerland was “thoroughly saturated” with pro-fascist groups that influenced the country’s wartime government to tilt in favor of the Nazis. State Department spokesman James Rubin said most Swiss people had sympathized with the Allies, not the Nazis. The report, issued earlier this week by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, was also criticized by Swiss Jewish and government officials.
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