Liechtenstein’s sovereign Prince Hans Adam II has outraged German Jews yet again. He did so by saying the Holocaust is the reason for his tiny country’s banking secrecy during an interview with a Liechtenstein newspaper.
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“We and Switzerland saved many people, especially Jews, with banking secrecy,” The Prince said to the Liechtensteiner Volksblatt. “Germany should clean up its own act, and think about its past.” The latter was in reference to Germany criticizing the principality for tax evasion.
Hans Adam went on to explain that Jewish people were able to store their finances in this micro-state’s banks during the Nazi period.
“The comments are a mockery of the Holocaust and its survivors,” Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the German Central Council of Jews, told Bild newspaper. “It is historically incorrect for him to portray Liechtenstein as a merciful helper of the Jews. It is an attempt to use the Holocaust as a defense for the prince’s political failures. His highness would be better off retiring.”
The last time Hans Adam outraged German Jews was back in 2008, when he called Germany the “Fourth Reich.”
Prince Hans-Adam is Liechtenstein’s head of state, but in 2004, he gave his powers to his son, Prince Alois.
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