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Switzerland in World War Two

Although Switzerland had remained neutrality during World War II it was affected by the war’s terrible consequences: The economy was poor, people’s life was filled with fear, kitchen gardens were needed for the protection of hunger, and kids had to gather berries and wood in the forests.

My grandfather’s brother was sick with diabetes during that time. He knew a medicine was existing in the US which will cure him. Because of the war, however, it was not possible for him to get the life saving medicine and he had to die before he reached his 20^th birthday.

"Why did Hitler not take Switzerland in WWII?

First it is necessary to say that Hitler always had wanted to capture Switzerland. He was talking fancy like, “Switzerland, the pimple in the middle of the face of Europe, I will take as well.” To conquer Switzerland, however, would have been impossible for Hitler. This is because Switzerland has an extremely difficult territory, an excellent military, and Switzerland was prepared with bunkers and other facilities for a war. The Swiss military would have blown up bridges, tunnels, roads, etc. So the aggressors were cut off from supplies and would not be able to retreat. In fact, Hitler would have needed huge quantities of soldiers, war equipment, and money, which he did not have.

The Swiss military had also the possibility to retreat in the mountains and fight the enemy form the ambush. The underground fortresses were filled with food and ammunition that would have last for years.

Hitler also knew Switzerland was able to cut off the transalpine connections (with blowing up the alp-passes) for ever. This would be a big detriment then Hitler and Mussolini had a close exchange of goods.

So, Hitler decided to conquer first all nations around Switzerland. Fortunately WW2 took another run.

“Billions, which belong to holocaust victims, are on Swiss banks“, claimed 1996 the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and pictures a bad image from Switzerland during the World War II. Switzerland could an accusation like the one above not tolerate. So it wrote an explicit rectification concerned to the accusation. The rectification, however, had been ignored by the WJC, authorities and media in the USA. Because of that, the “Volker-Kommission” had to search on more than four Million Swiss-bank accounts the Billions which belong, in accordance with the WJC, to holocaust victims. The commission had not found anything with signs of discrimination, abuses, or shredding of files. This whole process of searching cost a billion dollars, which was charged to the Swiss banks.

The Bank Deal of New York, which cost the banks around $ 2 billions, was completed without waiting for the correcting report of the “Volker-Kommission”. In view of loosing the business-relationships the banks had to pay. They had to let themselves blackmail."