en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_incidents_in_Switzerland_in_World_War_II
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(in 1944/45 dollars)
The $14.4 million figure was the value of the October 21, 1949 settlement, not a 1944/45-dollar amount.
Full reasoning
This parenthetical date is wrong.
The U.S. State Department’s historical record says that on October 21, 1949, the United States offered Switzerland 62,176,433.06 Swiss francs in a final war-claims settlement, and the agreement on those claims was effected by exchange of notes signed that same day. The article’s own body text also describes that payment as "then equivalent to $14.4 million" on 21 October 1949.
That means $14.4 million is a 1949-era dollar figure, not a figure expressed in 1944/45 dollars. The parenthetical label therefore misdates the denomination of the payment.
2 sources
- Historical Documents - Office of the Historian
Then several years later, October 21, 1949, the State Department ... offered the Swiss Government 62,176,433.06 Swiss francs ... in full and final settlement...
- Historical Documents - Office of the Historian
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SWITZERLAND RESPECTING SETTLEMENT OF CERTAIN WAR CLAIMS [For text of Agreement, effected by exchange of notes signed at Washington October 21, 1949 ...]