December 1996: The Swiss Parliament decided to create a commission, chaired by historian Jean-François Bergier, to investigate the assets looted from Jews by the Nazis and placed in Switzerland during the Second World War.
This decision was made under American pressure: the United States Congress and the World Jewish Congress, based in New York, accused Swiss banks of having held onto the money of exterminated Jewish families.
As the Bergier Commission's work began, the television program Temps présent took up the subject and examined more broadly the attitude of the Swiss authorities during the Nazi period. The assessment by the team led by journalist Daniel Monnat was harsh and seriously challenged the image, conveyed by textbooks, of a neutral Switzerland, welcoming to refugees and resistant to the Nazis.
The broadcast of the program on March 6, 1997, sparked a fierce controversy. Following viewer complaints, the program was condemned for lack of objectivity by the competent federal authority for radio and television, a condemnation that was upheld by the Federal Supreme Court. The producers of Temps présent did not give up and filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights. In 2006, the same Court reinstated the Temps présent report, which was then allowed to be broadcast again.
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December 1996: The Swiss Parliament decided to create a commission, chaired by historian Jean-François Bergier, to investigate the assets looted from Jews by the Nazis and placed in Switzerland during the Second World War.
This decision was made under American pressure: the United States Congress and the World Jewish Congress, based in New York, accused Swiss banks of having held onto the money of exterminated Jewish families.
As the Bergier Commission's work began, the television program Temps présent took up the subject and examined more broadly the attitude of the Swiss authorities during the Nazi period. The assessment by the team led by journalist Daniel Monnat was harsh and seriously challenged the image, conveyed by textbooks, of a neutral Switzerland, welcoming to refugees and resistant to the Nazis.
The broadcast of the program on March 6, 1997, sparked a fierce controversy. Following viewer complaints, the program was condemned for lack of objectivity by the competent federal authority for radio and television, a condemnation that was upheld by the Federal Supreme Court. The producers of Temps présent did not give up and filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights. In 2006, the same Court reinstated the Temps présent report, which was then allowed to be broadcast again.
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