Archives Show Huge Arms Sales to Nazis

Nazi Germany got nearly two-thirds of Swiss exports of arms and war materiel from 1940 to 1944, according to previously unpublished archival data. Swiss historian Mauro Cerutti, who studied his nation’s archives, said they showed that Germany received arms worth $422 million at the time. The revelation came as the government announced the appointment of Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, to a Swiss panel to aid needy Holocaust survivors. A U.S. government report earlier this month alleged that the Swiss were bankers to the Nazis.