Swiss officials said they would investigate allegations that Nazi SS accounts worth as much as $700,000 were transferred to Swiss banks during the war. The vow came after the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center publicized a wartime document about the money, which it said should be given to Holocaust victims.
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