Even as this story was unfolding it was hard to keep straight all the allegations against Swiss banks being investigated by Al D'Amato's Senate Banking Committee, but basically they come in two categories: helping the Nazis during the war by accepting their deposits of gold (much of it stolen from German Jews), and stonewalling after the war about numbered accounts belonging to Jews. A sometimes abstruse but often moving analysis of what happened and why it still matters. WFB: "Presumably somebody who hasn't checked in on his bank account for fifty years doesn't know it exists, right? Or the children don't know it exists?..." EB: "Well, they did. A lot checked in 1946 and were told that they had to provide death certificates. And you know, to find a death certificate of someone who was gassed is a big trick." ... HJ: "It seems to me not to be a question of indicting a whole society, but to be looking at the way in which ... particular people made decisions--for instance,... the shocking case about the pressure to put the J [for Jude] on German passports, or the decision in August 1942 not to count people who were persecuted for racial reasons as political persecutees. All those have particular people who were responsible for them."