Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War
The Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War (ICE), often called the Bergier Commission after its chairman , was a commission of historians that investigated the whereabouts of assets transferred to Switzerland during the Second World War as part of the proceedings relating to Jewish assets in Swiss banks . It was set up on December 19, 1996 by the Swiss Federal Council , following a federal decree of December 13, 1996 that approved 5 million Swiss francs for the investigation.
The Bergier Commission consisted of the following people:
- Jean-François Bergier , Zug, Professor at ETH Zurich (President)
- Wladyslaw Bartoszewski , Warsaw
- Saul Friedländer , Jerusalem
- Harold James , Princeton (USA)
- Helen B. Junz , London
- Georg Kreis , Basel
- Sybil Milton , Washington
- Jacques Picard , Bern
- Jakob Tanner , Bielefeld / Zurich
- Daniel Thürer , Zurich
- Joseph Voyame , Saint-Brais (JU)
On March 22, 2002, she presented her final report on Switzerland, National Socialism and the Second World War , also known as the Bergier report .
literature
- Thomas Maissen : Refused memory. Dormant Fortunes and the Swiss World War II Debate 1989-2002. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-03-823046-5 .
- Peter Schmid: Belated thinking. Switzerland encounters its history. In: Thursday issues about politics, culture, society , issue 1. Old Synagogue Essen (ed.) , Essen 1998, 2. ex. Edition 2000, ISBN 3-924384-02-9 . Pp. 7-17.
- Christian Ruch, Myriam Rais-Liechti, Roland Peter: Business and Forced Labor: Swiss Industrial Companies in the “Third Reich” . Published by the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War, Chronos, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-0340-0606-3 .