\”You can\’t confront evil on its own ground without becoming part of it,\” muses diplomat Heinrich Zwygart in \”The Envoy,\” and his self-recognition clearly applies to Switzerland, the country he represented faithfully in Berlin during the six years of World War II.
For Italian expatriates Lotte Katz Singer of Beverly Hills and Ann Signett of the San Fernando Valley, life is surprising as well as beautiful.
During World War II, the Japanese army forced as many as 200,000 women and girls from mostly Asian countries to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers and officers. About 80 percent of these \”comfort women,\” as the Japanese euphemism of the time termed them, were the daughters of mine workers and farmers in Korea, which was under Japanese occupation.
During World War II, did an anti-Semitic Swiss government split up Jewish refugee families, require the men to perform back breaking work in forced labor camps, and treat Jews markedly worse than Christian refugees?
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