Here is the short version. During World War II, the Swiss National Bank bought approximately $440 million in gold from Nazi Germany. At today’s prices, that is roughly $8.5 billion. The Bergier Commission — Switzerland’s own independent investigation — concluded in 1998 that over half of it, around $316 million, had been looted from the […]
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In 1992, a Crypto AG salesman named Hans Buehler flew to Tehran for a routine client visit. He never came home. Iranian intelligence arrested him at the airport and held him for nine months — solitary confinement, relentless questioning, the same accusation on an endless loop: he was a spy. Buehler insisted he was just
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The bridge looks like any other in Switzerland. Stone piers. A clean arc over a cold river. Tourist coaches slow down for photographs. Hikers stop to consult maps. Children lean over the railing and watch the current below. What the tourists don’t see are the hollow chambers drilled into the base of each pier. The
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You’re hiking near Lake Geneva on a beautiful afternoon. The Alps shimmer in the distance. Everything is Switzerland-postcard perfect. Then you spot it: a charming pink house, nestled against the green hillside. The windows have white-trimmed shutters. Terracotta roof tiles. A mailbox by the front door. It looks exactly like the kind of chalet a
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