by Dr. William Pierce
Source: Free Speech - October
1997 - Volume III, Number 10
I've mentioned the Jewish program of extortion against Switzerland before,
but this is such a fascinating subject I just can't stay away from it. Almost
every day the Jews outreach themselves in setting new records for arrogance,
deceit, and greed. It's really breathtaking to watch them.
For the sake of review, the whole thing started last year when a group of
Jews, looking around for a new way to milk more money from the
"Holocaust," hit on the idea of announcing that Swiss bankers were
keeping money that had been deposited by Jews before or during the Second World
War who had then died or been killed during the war. Like most clever swindles,
this one contained a grain of truth. Among the dormant accounts in Swiss banks
there are some which did belong to Jews who died during the war. Every bank in
the world accumulates dormant accounts, and some of these accounts undoubtedly
were opened by Jews.
Now, the Swiss bankers have standard procedures for dealing with their
depositors and for handling dormant accounts, and those procedures have nothing
at all to do with the ethnicity of the depositor. Jewish depositors are and
always have been treated just like everyone else. The same efforts are made to
contact the owners of dormant accounts, regardless of whether those owners are
Jews or Gentiles. And regardless of what you think about bankers as a whole,
Swiss bankers are generally recognized as especially reputable -- as bankers
who are especially careful to play by the rules. That's one of the reasons Swiss
banks are so highly regarded around the world.
If a group of Tibetans or Laplanders had begun raising a fuss about dormant
accounts their grandfathers had opened in Swiss banks, the Swiss bankers would
have dealt with them in the standard manner: the bankers would have said to
them, just show us some proof that you are the legitimate heirs of depositors
who have died, and we will give you any money in the accounts, and that would
have been it. No one would have expected more than that, and no special media
attention would have been given to the Tibetans or Laplanders.
In fact, before this particular swindle was launched last year, Jews, along
with people of just about every other race and nationality on the planet, had
claimed and been awarded dormant accounts in the standard way, without any
special difficulty.
But the Jews who launched this scheme weren't interested in having dormant
accounts handled in the standard way. They were interested in blackmail and
extortion on a grand scale. And they had reason to believe that they could get
away it, while the Tibetans and Laplanders obviously couldn't. That reason was
the control of the news and entertainment media by their fellow Jews.
The first act in the scheme went like this: The schemers got together with
some of their buddies in the media, and front-page articles appeared
simultaneously in newspapers all over the world to the effect that Swiss
bankers were unscrupulously holding onto as much as $7 billion which belonged
to the heirs of so-called "Holocaust" victims. The members of the
Jewish group wanted the Swiss bankers to turn this money over to them. The
Swiss responded, as one might have expected, with denials and outrage. The
president of Switzerland denounced the Jewish demands as an extortion attempt.
And had only Tibetans or Laplanders been involved, that's where the affair
would have ended. But instead, the Jewish media shifted into second gear and
counterattacked, feigning outrage themselves over the charge of extortion. How
could a bunch of nice, Jewish boys possibly be involved in extortion --
especially when the magic word "Holocaust" had been invoked to
sanctify their claim for money?
Then the Swiss made their first big mistake: they apologized for accusing
the Jews of extortion. They explained their procedure for claiming dormant
accounts. They hired public relations firms. They said that there couldn't
possibly be $7 billion in dormant accounts belonging to "Holocaust"
victims, but that there might be some money and that they would make another
examination of their dormant accounts. They announced that as a charitable act
they would donate $180 million to the Jews, not from dormant accounts but from
their own general funds, just for the sake of goodwill.
The Swiss didn't understand the Jewish mentality. They didn't understand
that Jews aren't people you can live with. With Jews there's no compromising.
The Jews correctly viewed the Swiss apology and the Swiss offer of a charitable
donation to "Holocaust" survivors as signs of weakness, and so they
stepped up their demands. They got one of their step'n'fetchit Gentile
politicians involved, New York Senator Alphonse D'Amato, who is chairman of the
Senate Banking Committee and who has made a career out of doing favors for the
Jews. And they began escalating their demands and their threats.
And the Swiss kept making mistakes. They kept apologizing and backtracking
and trying to placate the Jews. Aside from their reputation for honesty, the
big thing Swiss banks had going for them was their reputation for
confidentiality. A person could put his money in a Swiss bank account and
reasonably expect that no one would ever learn about it if he didn't announce
the fact himself. Last month, in an attempt to prove to the world that they
weren't hiding any Jewish money, Swiss bankers compromised their reputation for
confidentiality by publishing a list of the names of the account-holders for
all 1,756 accounts they could find which had been dormant since the end of the
Second World War. These accounts contained a total of approximately $40
million.
Do you think this pleased the Jews a bit? They scrutinized the list, and
the first thing they noted was that fewer than ten per cent of the names on it
were Jewish. They didn't say much about this, however, except in their own
Jewish community newspapers, because it tended to deflate the fable they had
concocted of the Swiss bankers hoarding the savings of many thousands of Jewish
"Holocaust" victims totaling billions of dollars. Instead they began
screaming that, based on a similarity of names, eight of the 1,756 accounts on
the list might belong to people who had been connected in one way or another
with the German government during the war. There were names on the list which
were the same as or similar to a former vice-president of the Reichstag,
Hitler's official photographer, the wife of a top SS official, and five others.
"Oy, veh! You've been doing business with Nazis!" the Jews shrieked.
The Swiss reminded the Jews that Switzerland had been a neutral country
during the war and that Swiss banks had customers from both sides of the
conflict. Reminding everyone of that was another mistake for the poor Swiss.
The Jews, Senator D'Amato, and the rest of the Jews' camp followers began
moaning that the Swiss really had sympathized with the Germans, that they had
wanted the Germans to win and had helped the German war effort by trading with
Germany.
Now, that's another one of those little grains of truth in this whole
fabric of lies the Jews have constructed. A great many Swiss, especially in the
German-speaking parts of the country, were pro-German. And of course, they did
carry on trade with both the Germans and their allies as well as with the
allies of the Jews, such as the United States and the Soviet Union. The Jews
seized on the fact of Swiss trade with the Germans and began beating the Swiss
on the heads with that. The gold the Germans gave the Swiss in return for
manufactured products during the war probably had been confiscated from Jews,
they screamed. Some of it probably was gold teeth extracted from Jewish
concentration camp victims. "Give it back! Give it back to us!" The
Swiss responded by apologizing for having remained neutral during the war and
by donating another $100 million to the fund for "Holocaust" victims
they already had set up.
That's nowhere enough to satisfy one Jewish leader, Avraham Burg, the head
of Israel's Jewish Agency. (That's actually its name: the Jewish Agency.) Burg
has demanded for the Jews not only all the gold which had gone to Switzerland
from Germany during the war to pay for manufactured goods, but also gold which
the victorious Allies confiscated from Germany at the end of the war and have
been doling out ever since to various countries occupied by the Germans during
the war to compensate these countries for their wartime losses. Burg claims
that this gold once belonged to Jews, and he has demanded that all of the
vaults holding this gold be sealed until it is officially turned over to Jews.
He has demanded -- and I quote him exactly -- "that the corrupt division
and distribution of Jewish spoils from World War II to world governments must
immediately be ceased, and every last cent must be returned to Jewish
hands."
Isn't that interesting wording? "[E]very last cent must be returned to
Jewish hands." Not necessarily to the hands of the Jews Burg claims
originally owned the gold, since it would be impossible to determine who those
Jews were, but just "to Jewish hands." Just get it away from the
Gentiles and put it into Jewish hands. The Jews will figure out what to do with
it.
Imagine how that demand would sound if, instead of Jews, Lutherans or
Baptists were claiming the gold. During the war the Soviet government forced
millions of ethnic Germans -- the so-called "Volga Germans" -- off
the land they had owned for 150 years, since being invited to Russia by
Catherine the Great, and deported them to Siberia. After the war the communist
and democratic victors forced millions of other ethnic Germans off their land
in eastern Germany in a huge and murderous "ethnic cleansing"
program, to which the western Allies consented.
Most of these plundered and dispossessed Germans were Lutherans, and what
was stolen from them dwarfs any claim the Jews have made. Imagine the Lutheran
church demanding today that it be compensated for everything that had been
stolen from those plundered Germans during and after the war. We would laugh at
the absurdity of the church's claim. The fact that Avraham Burg and his fellow
Jews make such a claim today tells us something about their mentality, about
their ethnocentricity and sense of racial solidarity, about their "us
against them" attitude toward the world, as well as about their greed for
gold. And it tells us about the folly of thinking of Jews as merely people with
a different religion, who become anything other than Jews when they change
their religion.
The reason that Avraham Burg can confidently make such demands, while no
Lutheran spokesman dares do the same, is based on the fact of Jewish media
control. The Jews have spent 60 years, since before the Second World War, using
the media to complain about their mistreatment by the Germans, the Poles, the
Ukrainians, the Latvians, the Lithuanians, the Hungarians, the Croatians, and
so on. After the war they poured such a deluge of pro-Jewish propaganda out of
Hollywood that most Americans today think of Jews as being the principal
victims of the Second World War. Almost no one has heard about what Jewish
Communism did to the Russians, the Ukrainians, the Poles, and the other
European peoples unfortunate enough to be ruled by Communists before, during,
or after the Second World War. Almost no one has heard about the mass murder of
millions of German civilians after the war. In fact, most Americans can't even
give a good estimate of the number of Americans who died in combat during the
war. But everybody has heard about the grossly inflated figure of "six
million" Jews supposedly killed in gas chambers by the Germans and then
converted into soap, lampshades, and gold dental fillings.
This incessant Jewish "Holocaust" propaganda has got most people,
including the Swiss, buffaloed. It has given the Jews a special status, a
martyr status. Most people are afraid to criticize them or contradict them. But
even the Swiss bankers and politicians who aren't fooled by the Jewish
"Holocaust" exaggerations are afraid of the power of the Jewish
media. They understand that the U.S. government is practically under the Jews'
control. They understand that American politicians who are in the Jews' pockets,
like Senator D'Amato, can cause them a lot of trouble. They understand that the
Jews have enough political power through their media control to persuade the U.
S. government to go along with a boycott of Switzerland if they demand one. And
so instead of standing up to the Jews the Swiss keep on apologizing and trying
to buy the Jewish blackmailers off. And the Jews continue to see this as
weakness, and so they keep on pushing. They keep on demanding more.
And, hey, don't think that's because the Jews are greedy! They're not
really interested in the gold, but only in the principle of the thing, they
assure us. Israel Singer, the secretary of the World Jewish Congress, one of
the groups applying pressure to the Swiss, has announced, "This is not
about money. It is about justice." Right.
This business of demanding reparations for things which allegedly happened
50 or 60 years ago does bring up some interesting principles. The descendants
of our Black slaves in this country are a bit slower at spotting opportunities
than the Jews are, but even they can recognize a profitable principle when they
see one. They're beginning to talk about the reparations that White people owe
them for slavery. They might want to add up all of the man-hours their slave
ancestors worked, multiply that by, say, $5 an hour, add interest at six per
cent since the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, and present us with the bill.
Why not?
And what about the Indians and the real estate they can claim we owe them
for? Why should it be only the Jews who can get away with making such claims --
and with collecting on them? They've already extorted $55 billion in
reparations from the German people since 1948. Suppose the Germans started
figuring up what is owed to them? Or suppose the Scots presented a bill to the
English? Or suppose the English presented a bill to the people of Normandy? Why
is it only the Jews who are entitled to go back into history and add up their
carefully nursed grievances and present a bill to the rest of the world?
The latest concession they've blackmailed the Swiss into is a $5 billion
so-called "solidarity fund" to be used to compensate "victims of
poverty, war, and genocide." A panel, a majority of whose members are
Jews, is to decide how to dole out this money after it is collected from the
Swiss people. If the Swiss are prompt in coughing up this money, then the Jews
say they will not organize an international boycott of Switzerland.
Fortunately for the Swiss, they have at least one patriot among their
politicians. He is a 56-year-old industrialist and member of the Swiss
parliament, Christoph Blocher, and he is telling the Swiss people that they
ought not to give in to this blackmail. He is telling his people that they owe
nothing to the Jews and they ought to pay them nothing. And he is gaining
strong support from Swiss voters. We'll see what happens next year, when the
Swiss vote on whether or not to let the Jews take them to the cleaners for
another $5 billion.
So far the Jews have been so pleased with the way the Swiss are caving in
to their demands for gold that they're talking about similar claims against
Sweden, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey. Hey, why not? When you've got the whole
world buffaloed with "Holocaust" baloney, why not go for everything
you can get?
If you really want to get some insight into the
Jewish mentality, go to any big library -- or to the Internet -- and start
collecting news clippings on these Jewish claims for reparations. Study the
details. Try to see the big picture. Make some of the comparisons I've hinted
at today: comparisons of the way the Jews look at their history to the way in
which other races, other nations, look at their own histories. It will amaze
you. It will take your breath away. And it will convince you that it's time for
the world to do something about getting this Jewish monkey off its back.