Agreement on German assets in Switzerland

The Agreement on German Assets in Switzerland is a 1946 international treaty between Switzerland, on the one hand, and the United States , France and the United Kingdom, on the other.

After the Second World War, the treaty regulated the claims asserted by the Western victorious powers to German assets that had come to Switzerland, including the looted gold acquired by the Swiss National Bank of Germany .

Switzerland undertook to settle the claims with a payment of CHF 250 million . The United States pledged to unblock Swiss funds.

literature

• Linus von Castelmur : Swiss-Allied financial relations in the transition from the Second World War to the Cold War: The German assets in Switzerland between forced liquidation and release (1945–1952). Chronos, Zurich 1992 (dissertation University of Basel, 1991).
• Marco Durrer: The Swiss-American financial relations in the Second World War: From the blocking of Swiss assets in the USA to the "Safehaven" policy to the Washington Agreement (1941–1946). Haupt, Bern 1984 (dissertation University of Geneva, 1984).
• Daniel Frei: The Washington Agreement of 1946: A Contribution to the History of Swiss Foreign Policy between the Second World War and the Cold War. In: Swiss History Journal . 1969, pp. 567-619. (online, PDF 23.8MB)

Web links

• Contract text SR 0.982.1 Washington Agreement of 25 May 1946 (German translation of the original French text)
• Dodis e-Dossier: The Washington Agreement of 1946

Individual evidence

1. ^ The liberation strike after the war in Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 23, 2016
2. ↑ e-dossier: The Washington Agreement of 1946 | dodis.ch. Diplomatic documents of Switzerland (Dodis.ch), May 25, 1946, accessed on July 26, 2018 (English). 
3. ^ E-Dossier: The Washington Agreement of 1946 | dodis.ch. Diplomatic documents of Switzerland (Dodis.ch), May 25, 1946, accessed on July 26, 2018 .