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

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: D754.S9 R48 2001

Overview

Other Title: Zweite Weltkrieg und die Schweiz.
Variant Title: Switzerland in World War Two
Format: Book
Published: Rockport, Me. : Picton Press, [2001]
©2001
Locale: Switzerland
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.
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.

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.

Most essays have been translated from German into English.

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 0897254473
Physical Description: xvi, 138 pages ; 24 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Switzerland. Neutrality--Switzerland--History--20th century. Switzerland--Economic policy. Jewish refugees--Switzerland.

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