Retrospectives on Switzerland in World War Two / edited by Donald P. Hilty

Publication | Library Call Number: D754.S9 R48 2001

Other Title: Zweite Weltkrieg und die Schweiz.
Variant Title: Switzerland in World War Two
Format: Book
Published: Rockport, Me. : Picton Press, c2001
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language: English

Physical Description: xvi, 138 p. ; 24 cm
Contents: Introduction / Donald P. Hilty
Prologue : Swiss history under scrutiny / Hugo Bütler
Switzerland's foreign trade policy during World War II : successful perseverance of a besieged country / Hans Schaffner
Neutrality and economic warfare / Klaus Urner
The Swiss Army was ready : reasons Germany dropped "Operation Switzerland" / Hans Senn
Who prolonged the Second World War? / Walther Hofer
Neutral Switzerland, humanitarian Switzerland : a contradiction? / Hugo Bütler
Contested Swiss neutrality / Dietrich Schindler
Switzerland, international law, and World War II / Detlev Vagts
Epilogue : summary view of Switzerland in World War II / Sigmund Widmer.
Other Authors/Editors: Hilty, Donald P.
ISBN: 0897254473
Notes: Most essays were originally published in a volume by Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung under the title: Der Zweite Weltkrieg und die Schweiz. 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Most essays have been translated from German into English.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Switzerland.
Neutrality--Switzerland--History--20th century.
Switzerland--Economic policy.
Jewish refugees--Switzerland.
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