Swiss Used POW Funds

December 02, 1997

Switzerland's World War II government used allied funds intended to aid British and American prisoners of war to repatriate Swiss money from Japan. The document is a translated transcript of an intercepted Swiss diplomatic cable between Berne and Washington from November 1945. The documents shows that in August 1944 neutral Switzerland reached a secret agreement with Tokyo to divert 40 percent of money paid by the British and American governments to provide relief for their prisoners in Japanese captivity. The 40 percent was used "for the transfer of Swiss claims in Japan."

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