Old Europe can never live up to it's responsibilities:

Switzerland has blocked access to government archives relating to the country’s ties with apartheid-era South Africa.

The head of the Swiss research programme into apartheid-era links says the move will limit his ability to properly probe Switzerland’s relationship with the white regime in Pretoria.

A finance ministry statement, issued on Thursday, said the temporary decision had been taken in order to protect Swiss companies facing class action suits in the United States.

Before anyone argues that the US should pay reparations, I would counter that slavery was never federal government sponsored. The 3/5 person language was, but that has since been repaid.