Recent startling revelations that Switzerland helped to bankroll Nazi Germany's war effort, and Swiss intransigence in the face of redress claims by Holocaust survivors, have shaken Switerland's international reputation. In this uncompromising account, leading Swiss sociologist Jean Ziegler closely examines the shady relationship between Swiss bankers and Nazi Germany. Based on the records of the German Armaments Ministry and other official documents, The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead shows how Switzerland's leading financial institutions provided Hittler with the foreign exchange essential to his war effort-laundering gold looted from the banks of occupied Europe and from the bodies of concentration camp victims; granting sizable loans; and supplying Germany's war economy with weapons, ammunition, and precision instruments. In returen, Switzerland was spared the devastation that befell the rest of Europe. Ziegler argues forcefully and authoritatively that without Swiss complicity the war in Europe would have ended earlier, sparing hundreds of thousands of lives. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in Switzerland's domestic politic and international diplomacy, Professor Ziegler has made an important contribution to this highly controversial and emotional subject.

The Swiss, The Gold And The Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine

History

Ziegler, Jean

Brownjohn, John

Europe

Harcourt

The famous novel about three Nazi generals and a brutal wartime sex crime--and the inspiration for the 1967 film. When a Polish prostitute is murdered in 1942, the suspects come down to three German generals. But nothing happens. Then, in 1944, when the trio gathers again, another killing occurs. However, a coup against Hitler halts the investigations. Then, in 1956, a third slaying takes place-and it's clear that this time, the murderer must be caught...

The Night of the Generals

Literature & Fiction

Kirst, Hans Hellmut

Contemporary

UNKNO

Lured to post-Communist East Berlin by an inheritence that includes an old apartment building, Eduard, a German scientist, soon finds the city transforming his life in bizarre, absurd ways.

Eduard's Homecoming

Schneider, Peter

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A cat, two guinea pigs, and a colony of brave sewer rats band together in order to save Freddy, a golden hamster, from an evil scientist who's discovered that Freddy can read and write, and plans to hamster-nap him in order to dissect his brain.

Freddy in Peril

Reiche, Dietlof

Scholastic Press

Headstrong painter Dora Sawaya meets and soon marries Milo Touta, a confident fledgling photographer from a distinguished Syrian-Greek family, and when he encourages her to take up photography as well, her work quickly surpasses his, causing friction and jealousy between the couple

The Photographer's Wife

Solé, Robert

Genre Fiction

Harvill Pr

Churchill (Life&Times)

Biographies & Memoirs

Hennessy, Peter

HAFFNER, Sebastian

Historical

Haus Publishing

Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island (Armchair Traveller)

Capus takes us on an exploratory journey via the loss of a Spanish vessel laden with gold and jewels in the South Seas, the burial of treasure, an ancient map, and a long and dangerous voyage across the Pacific, to prove that Robert Louis Stevenson's "treasure island" actually exists; and that it exists in a place quite different from where hordes of treasure-hunters have been seeking it for generations. In fact, he posits, it was for this reason alone that Stevenson spent the last five years of his life in Samoa. On a long trip round the Pacific islands with the idea of writing articles for American periodicals, Stevenson, travelling with his beloved wife, Fanny, and stepson Lloyd Osbourne, had no notion of stopping at Samoa when their ship made landfall in December 1889. Yet, only six weeks later, at the age of 39, he would invest all his available assets in a patch of impenetrable jungle and spend the rest of his life there. This book traces what led Stevenson to Samoa and the origins of his famous story. For facing him from this unlikely spot was another island – a conical isle, Tafahi, where legends abound, and it was, Capus suggests, this isle that would cause him to change the course of his life.

Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island (Red Books)

CAPUS, ALEX

Arts & Literature

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