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-[Rickman] has written an indispensable insider's account of the confrontation between the Swiss banks and the alliance of D'Amato's banking committee and Jewish organizations. In the 1930s, many Jews placed their savings in Swiss banks, fearing the Nazi government would seize their assets. Many of those depositors were killed in the Holocaust... Between 1995 and 1998, D'Amato's banking committee pressured Swiss banks to make an equitable settlement with the Holocaust victims, which resulted in the historical agreement between the banks and the survivors... All levels.- --J. Fischel, Choice -The Richman book is at its best in its discussion of the various personalities involved in the controversy. The author coherently links the various events that made up the controversy, describing them in considerable depth, and focuses on the role of the D'Amato investigation in that development....It is an effective defense of the D'Amato effort, and has made the job of apologists for the Swiss Nazi-era record far more difficult.- --Central European History

The Richman book is at its best in its discussion of the various personalities involved in the controversy. The author coherently links the various events that made up the controversy, describing them in considerable depth, and focuses on the role of the D'Amato investigation in that development....It is an effective defense of the D'Amato effort, and has made the job of apologists for the Swiss Nazi-era record far more difficult. -- Central European History

<p> [Rickman] has written an indispensable insider's account of the confrontation between the Swiss banks and the alliance of D'Amato's banking committee and Jewish organizations. In the 1930s, many Jews placed their savings in Swiss banks, fearing the Nazi government would seize their assets. Many of those depositors were killed in the Holocaust... Between 1995 and 1998, D'Amato's banking committee pressured Swiss banks to make an equitable settlement with the Holocaust victims, which resulted in the historical agreement between the banks and the survivors... All levels. <p> --J. Fischel, Choice <p> The Richman book is at its best in its discussion of the various personalities involved in the controversy. The author coherently links the various events that made up the controversy, describing them in considerable depth, and focuses on the role of the D'Amato investigation in that development....It is an effective defense of the D'Amato effort, and has made the job of apologists for the Swiss Nazi-era record far more difficult. <p> --Central European History

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Gregg Rickman

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