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Examines the alleged involvement of Switzerland in financial crimes and other offenses during World War II. Suggestion that Spain may still be holding most of the $100 million in Nazi gold that it received over the course of the war; Views of British statesman Winston Churchill on Switzerland, which he stated in his letter to Swiss Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden; Reason behind the move of Swiss government officials to make good neighbors to the Germans; Opposition of three of seven Swiss cabinet members to the creation of a humanitarian fund.

Focuses on the ousting of Seth Lipsky, editor of the newspaper "Jewish Daily Forward," by the board of the Forward Association which owns half of the newspaper. Accusation made by the Forward Association that Lipsky was too conservative; Objectives of the newspaper to give a voice to Jewish immigrants who were streaming into the U.S. from Eastern Europe; Role of the paper in fighting for the working class and associating itself with the labor movement; Endorsement made by Lipsky to the candidacy of U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Comments on the criticisms of Norman Finkelstein on the Jewish Holocaust as depicted in his book "A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth." Accusations made by Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn on the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen; Reaction of Jewish groups to the book; Comment on the support given by historians Raul Hilberg and Christopher Browning for Finkelstein.