Focus
In the course of its work, the commission identified three areas where the government failed to carry out its responsibilities:
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- that of the Swiss government and its cantons' policy with respect to the refugees.
- that which regards the concessions which the Federal state and a part of the private economy made to the Axis powers.
- that which concerns the issue of restitution of assets once the war had ended.
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