Files May Relate to Jews, Bank Concedes
From Times Wire Reports
The nation’s largest bank conceded that documents saved from a shredder by a bank guard may concern property that Jews were pressured to sell in Nazi-ruled Germany. Union Bank of Switzerland previously had maintained that the 65 files recovered by guard Christoph Meili in January were unrelated to dormant World War II-era accounts, which are being examined for links to victims of the Holocaust.
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