Target Switzerland by Stephen P. Halbrook

Author:Stephen P. Halbrook [Halbrook, Stephen P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2012-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

Elsewhere in this harangue, Hitler made an obscure reference apparently expressing resentment against the Swiss for their victory against the Germans in the Swabian War of 1499. He saw Switzerland as the historic enemy of the First as well as the Third Reich.

Mussolini agreed, complaining that the Swiss opposed the Axis nations without regard to language group and sounded out Hitler on dates for an invasion:

On a question of the Duce, what was in store in the future for Switzerland, which is but an anachronism anyway, the German Foreign Minister [Ribbentrop] replied, smiling, that the Duce must talk about it with the Führer. The Duce observed that only the French Swiss in Switzerland stood by France, while the Italian Swiss stood against Italy and the German Swiss against Germany. On the Jewish Question, the Führer said that after the war all Jews would have to get out of Europe completely.38

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