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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)The report was by the Matteoli Commission, which started the first major study of the subject three years ago. The commission found that assets worth $1.3 billion today were seized as bank accounts were frozen, fines were demanded, businesses were taken over, and apartments were ransacked.
Barclays was only forced to confront its wartime activities recently when the Matteoli Commission in France began an investigation into the conduct of banks operating in Nazi-occupied France. The commission discovered that the cashier from the Drancy transit camp, Maurice Keiffer, deposited 290,000 francs at Barclays' Paris office in July 1944, taken from Jewish prisoners on their way to Auschwitz. It also found that French banks seized 3.5 billion old francs—around half a billion pounds today—from Jews on behalf of the Nazis.
The report was by the Matteoli Commission, which started the first major study of the subject three years ago. The commission found that assets worth $1.3 billion today were seized as bank accounts were frozen, fines were demanded, businesses were taken over, and apartments were ransacked.
Barclays was only forced to confront its wartime activities recently when the Matteoli Commission in France began an investigation into the conduct of banks operating in Nazi-occupied France. The commission discovered that the cashier from the Drancy transit camp, Maurice Keiffer, deposited 290,000 francs at Barclays' Paris office in July 1944, taken from Jewish prisoners on their way to Auschwitz. It also found that French banks seized 3.5 billion old francs—around half a billion pounds today—from Jews on behalf of the Nazis.
The report was by the Matteoli Commission, which started the first major study of the subject three years ago. The commission found that assets worth $1.3 billion today were seized as bank accounts were frozen, fines were demanded, businesses were taken over, and apartments were ransacked.