Philip Rubenstein
Switzerland: Handmaiden to Hitler? Part 1: A Case to Answer
Summary
By 1942, as Nazi Germany was fighting on two fronts, its war costs had spiralled. Hitler was stealing gold from the vaults of every country the Nazis invaded, but he needed a partner to convert his looted gold into a currency the world would accept. Step forward, Switzerland. Without the efforts of Swiss bankers to help keep the Nazi war machine sufficiently funded, is it possible that WW2 could have ended earlier?
Philip Rubenstein
Philip Rubenstein was director of the Parliamentary War Crimes Group, which, in the mid-to-late 1980s, campaigned to bring Nazi war criminals living in the UK to justice. Philip was also the founder-director of the Holocaust Educational Trust and played a role in getting the study of the Shoah onto the national school’s curriculum in the UK. These days, he works with family businesses, advising on governance and continuity from one generation to the next.