DANGEROUS NEUTRALITY?
“THOUSANDS OF JEWISH REFUGEES WERE REFUSED ENTRY AND THE COUNTRY WAS TAINTED BY SEVERAL FINANCIAL SCANDALS WITH THE MOST FAMOUS BEING THE ACCUSATION OF BUYING “NAZI GOLD”
1914 Switzerland had been officially neutral for almost 100 years and its army had last fought during a short civil war in 1847. Compared to its surrounding neighbours’ armed forces the Swiss army was small and numbered 450,000 civilian conscripts. Half of these men were reservists, and the
