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| UBS Bank, Liverpool Street @www.ravishlondon.com This is one of five London bases for UBS, a global financial services company, which according to Wikipedia is the world's largest wealth management firm for private clients. UBS says it operates in two locations 'Everywhere and right next to you'. This is something that Jewish holocaust survivors would have known something about. The UBS building, dressed in black steel stands tall and proud in London's City. Until recently UBS collaboration with the Nazis in exploiting Jewish slave labour contributed to the economic and physical legacy, of which the UBS building formed a part. According to the BBC the bank had 400 slaves from the nearby Auschwitz camp, under the control of the SS, working in one of its concrete factories. I find it hard to look at the black steel frames of UBS buildings without thinking of their involvement in slavery. According to the BBC website, fifty-five years after they screwed the Jews, UBS recently admitted to exploiting Nazi slave labour during World War II. The BBC site also said the bank prevented Holocaust survivors and their families from retrieving their wartime assets. |
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