A study commissioned by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center found that Jewish refugees confined in Swiss labor camps during World War II were subjected to sadistic conditions and threatened to be turned over to the Gestapo if they attempted to leave the camps. “These were really slave labor camps,” the author of the study, historian Alan Morris Schom, told the Los Angeles Times. The study’s findings, which echoed those contained in a recent British television documentary, were flatly denied by Swiss officials.
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