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by SeanLuke 1745 days ago
> USA broke their back. They opened their private banking.

This sounds like you think this was a bad thing. But a not insignificant amount of swiss bank holdings, and profit, stemmed directly from dormant accounts of holocaust victims, purposely withheld from their heirs under the guise of "privacy"; and from plunder deals with the Nazis.