Noting that even one of the victims' lawyers had admitted that there was no definitive list, the newspaper contacted ten companies on one partial list and found that many were themselves unaware of the extent of their involvement in Nazi-era persecution.
Several countries, including the U.S., are investigating the extent to which their citizens are dodging taxes through a Liechtenstein bank, after the German government obtained a list of 1, 400 of the bank's clients.
Whether Operation Compassion remains on the Forbes list, which is based on the amount of private donations received, will depend in part on the extent of the revision for 2011.