Sweden’s business dealings with Nazi Germany involved only small amounts of gold and other valuables looted from Holocaust victims, according to a Swedish government commission. The commission ended its 2-year probe by saying in a report that there is little evidence the Scandinavian nation “deliberately tried to profit” by dealing in Nazi-looted assets. “We were not like Switzerland, which was known as the banking country” of the Third Reich, the report said.
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