STUART EIZENSTAT

Explaining the short average tenure of high level government jobs:

Switzerland stayed neutral because they initially feared a German invasion. Then they found that they were making a great deal of money from the war, including huge profits from dealing with the gold that Nazis had looted or taken from the fillings in the teeth of Holocaust victims. So long after there was no fear of German invasion, the Swiss still maintained neutrality but aided and made profits from the German war effort while they exterminated millions of people. At the end of WWII, Switzerland was the richest country in Europe. Later it was discovered that the Swiss hid the fact that they had many millions of dollars in deposits from Jews who had been killed by the Nazis and were making no effort to find the survivors or in the event of death giving the money to the nearest relatives. As a result of this report and a number of lawsuits filed in America against the Swiss Banks, a courageous Swiss member of Parliament who discovered the extent of the duplicity of the Swiss Banks, a bank employee who refused to destroy the records of all the illegal funds the Banks had, and political pressure applied to Switzerland from many other countries, a settlement was reached whereby the Swiss banks turned over large sums of money to non-Swiss organizations which tried to distribute the money to survivors and heirs.

Switzerland stayed neutral because they initially feared a German invasion. Then they found that they were making a great deal of money from the war, including huge profits from dealing with the gold that Nazis had looted or taken from the fillings in the teeth of Holocaust victims. So long after there was no fear of German invasion, the Swiss still maintained neutrality but aided and made profits from the German war effort while they exterminated millions of people. At the end of WWII, Switzerland was the richest country in Europe. Later it was discovered that the Swiss hid the fact that they had many millions of dollars in deposits from Jews who had been killed by the Nazis and were making no effort to find the survivors or in the event of death giving the money to the nearest relatives. As a result of this report and a number of lawsuits filed in America against the Swiss Banks, a courageous Swiss member of Parliament who discovered the extent of the duplicity of the Swiss Banks, a bank employee who refused to destroy the records of all the illegal funds the Banks had, and political pressure applied to Switzerland from many other countries, a settlement was reached whereby the Swiss banks turned over large sums of money to non-Swiss organizations which tried to distribute the money to survivors and heirs.

Explaining the short average tenure of high level government jobs: