1.   France is producing an inventory of Jewish assets seized during the German occupation, with a view to compensation.

2.   It does not include accounts that may have been opened by Nazi looters of Jewish assets before or after that date.

3.   Jewish assets were seized first in Germany, before the war, and later in the countries the Nazis occupied.

4.   Many Jews deposited money and other assets in Switzerland before the war when Nazi Germany was seizing Jewish assets.

5.   Other wartime neutrals such as Sweden have said they will also examine what happened to Jewish assets which wound up in their banks.

6.   People said that the issues we raised, like their bank trafficking in looted Jewish assets from the Netherlands, simply could not be true.

7.   The seizure of Jewish assets in wartime France was so extensive that all Jews, whether the richest bankers or the poorest tailors, were touched by it.

8.   The Swiss banks may have profited from those sales, which appear to have been part of a Nazi policy to seize Jewish assets.

9.   They refused to make an exemption for the assets of surviving Jews from Germany and heirless German Jewish assets, and continued to make them subject to liquidation.

10.   Bergier said he did not expect his commission to be able to fully resolve the dispute over missing Jewish assets in Swiss banks in the five years allotted.