The Swiss and the Nazis by Stephen Halbrook

Author:Stephen Halbrook [Halbrook, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History, non.fiction
ISBN: 9781932033427
Publisher: Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors
Published: 2006-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

The founding of the Swiss Confederation at the Rütli meadow in 1291.

The union was intended to be a perpetual alliance against invaders.

Image: Otto Schön, Die Schweitzergeschicte in Bildern, Verlag der J. Dalp’schen Buch und Kunsthandlung in Bern (K. Schmid), 1872

The Battle of Dornach, 1499.

Switzerland defeated the First Reich in the Swabian War.

Image: Otto Schön Die Schweitzergeschicte in Bildern, Verlag der J. Dalp’schen Buch und Kunsthandlung in Bern (K. Schmid), 1872

The Swiss wielded the pike and halberd with a thirst for blood.

To the insult “Sauschwob” (German pig), which already existed as a term as far back as 1499, “Saunazi” (Nazi pig) was added to the Swiss sneers for the Third Reich.

Image: Otto Schön Die Schweitzergeschicte in Bildern, Verlag der J. Dalp’schen Buch und Kunsthandlung in Bern (K. Schmid), 1872

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