Surveyor Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Came across this today https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65099516 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67burwood Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Read the same article, can’t believe it’s gone unnoticed for so long!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11th Armoured Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 I think a great many things have gone 'unnoticed' in Switzerland for quite some time... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxy Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 On this subject , probably the best reading material is the book by Adam LeBor (1997) :- Hitler's Secret Bankers : The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust. ------------- There is little that can be r-discovered by the Swiss. A area quite near to the border with Austria - the mountain air was found by the Germans to be a real cure for TB IIRC this was pre-WW1 , two townships were created and twelve German owned and controlled TB sanatorium built . During WW2 they were used by the Germans (who in this period were purchasing much land in the area) for treatment and convalescent of German soldiers with battle injuries as well as TB patients. IIRC there were German cemetery nere for non-survivors. The Swiss main concern was the possibility of a mini-war with US military persons also recovering at similar institutions , IIRC there may also have been a few similar injured British . These two townships are normally called by a single place name - DAVOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rootes75 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 I read the article on the Beeb too. It's interesting to note that although Neutral there were a lot of pro-german facets to the country. But then, with them in such close proximity to each other then I suppose it isn't out of the question. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 At least they corrected the original statement that the Fraktur font was a Nazi favourite, when it was actually banned in 1941 for being too "Jewish". Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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