Liechtenstein royalty hired death camp inmates for slave labour

[T_i_B]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/15/wliec15.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/15/ixportal.html

Liechtenstein's royal house hired Jewish concentration camp inmates from the SS to work as forced labourers on its princely estates in Austria, a probe into the tiny tax haven's wartime past has discovered.

The findings of the four-year study stripped away the comfortable myth that Liechtenstein was a passive bystander to the horrors of the Second World War.

Instead, they showed how the country, less than half the size of the Isle of Wight, turned away unknown numbers of Jewish refugees from its border with Austria only admitting those who could pay vast sums in Swiss francs.

The most sensitive parts of the report touched on the conduct of the princely house which has ruled Liechtenstein for 300 years. The current reigning prince, Hans-Adam II, won "absolute powers", including the right to veto bills and sack the government, in 2003 after a controversial referendum that saw him threaten to leave the principality if thwarted.

[WearyOne]

1. probably still got some Nazi bank accounts there

[msanthrope]

2. And some Nazis......n/t

[TahitiNut]

3. That's what 'royalty' does.

As I've said before, it's appalling that we've lost sight of the abominable abuses of power perpetrated by these sperm lottery inbreds. The celebration of people whose wealth and position is solely attributable to the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of impoverished workers is disgusting. Such is the desensitization of people to the vast atrocities of "ownership entitlements" - the insane notion that a government (monarchical or otherwise) can, by force, confiscate the fruits of a worker's labor to enrich some "ownership class" generation after generation highlights the abysmal ignorance of the "average Amurikan."

[Frederik]

4. Just like

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, another Nazi collaborator and sympathizer, who went on to form the Bilderberg group, which once a year convenes the most powerful bankers, industrialists and politicians on both sides of the pond.