etc.<ref. Dr A M C Strauss-Schom>. Amid the controversy, Simon Wiesenthal expressed displeasure at the publication of these articles, because he was very ill, and after a lifetime of chasing Nazis, was simply worn out, and was no longer strong enough to face another major campaign. Dr Strauss-Schom and Wiesenthal communicated and his situation was discussed. (His wife was also very ill at that time).JTA, 15 June 1998 Schom, for his part, defended the contents of the reports when challenged by reporters at a press conferences in Los Angeles, New York and Paris. Schom presented official copies of the Swiss government documents (found in the Swiss National Archives) in which the highest government officials, in secret meetings held in the office of the Swiss Minister of Justice and Police, Bern. declared their intention to exclude Jewish refugees, an even suppress Jewish schools in Switzerland. President Flavio Cotti attempted to have these documents suppressed, but Dr Strauss-Schom was able to find and publish them first.<ref. Strauss-Schom> Napoleon Schom has been highly critical of Napoleon. His 1997 900 page biography, Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life, was the first complete revision of Bonaparte's life and career. This the result of an intensive ten-year period of research in the French archives, reveals Napoleon's destructive personality to friends and subjected country, his love of conquest, subjugation and power. He literally held every country in Western and central Europe captive, ensured by the presence of French bayonets, their taxes going to Paris. Napoleon's attempt to exclude England from Europe resulted in the destruction of that contient's commerce and economy, resulting in great hardship. A paranoid egotist, everything he did was for himself. His wars resulted in the deaths of one million Frenchmen—excluding those his enemies. Many tens of thousands of women and girls were raped by his troops as they marched through Europe over a period of 15 years. Napoleon was in the final analysis, a terrorist, the worst in European history until the arrival of Hitler and Stalin. He did bring order to France, including new law codes. (He introduced the concept followed to this day, that anyone accused by the police was and is automatically guilty. If is for the accused to prove his innocence. The work saw Schom accused in some quarters of failing to present an objective view of Napoleon's career, whereas Schom footnotes every source from which his facts are taken, and