Retrospectives on Switzerland in World War Two
By: edited by Donald P. Hilty.
Contributors: Hilty, Donald P.
Publisher: Picton Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Rockport, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Switzerland; Neutrality -- Switzerland -- History -- 20th century; Refugees, Jewish -- Switzerland; Switzerland -- Economic policy
Other titles: Switzerland in World War Two; Zweite Weltkrieg und die Schweiz.
Notes: Most essays have been translated from German into English.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Most essays were originally published in a volume by Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung under the title: Der Zweite Weltkrieg und die Schweiz. 1997.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Donald P. Hilty; title: Prologue : Swiss history under scrutiny / Hugo Bütler; title: Switzerland's foreign trade policy during World War II : successful perseverance of a besieged country / Hans Schaffner; title: Neutrality and economic warfare / Klaus Urner; title: The Swiss Army was ready : reasons Germany dropped "Operation Switzerland" / Hans Senn; title: Who prolonged the Second World War? / Walther Hofer; title: Neutral Switzerland, humanitarian Switzerland : a contradiction? / Hugo Bütler; title: Contested Swiss neutrality / Dietrich Schindler; title: Switzerland, international law, and World War II / Detlev Vagts; title: Epilogue : summary view of Switzerland in World War II / Sigmund Widmer.