During the Holocaust, the Swiss "neutrality" included wholesale theft of Jewish depositors bank accounts — which they finally admitted to in the 1990s but still refused to pay any of it back to the survivors until an American lawsuit forced them to — so color me unsurprised.

Not just that, they also rejected jews right at their borders beginng for asylum.

And that guy Meili who exposed the scandal was ostracised and forever remained unemployable. He was not a banker either, he was a security guy in a bank.

Lets not forget that the italian fascists and the nazis safely parked their looted money in switzerland.

Switzerland was used as a corridor by Italy and Nazi Germany to transports "goods".

Its a little known fact that the allies bombarded switzerland towards the end of ww2, a bit of a reminder for product weapons to the axis of evil as a neutral state.

Schaffhausen was officially a mistake. Also please provide links to your claims

I don't care if you downvoted me, provide links you lazy schmuck

Switzerland rejected over 39,000 refugees, most of them Jews, and asked German authorities to stamp Jewish passports with the letter J in order to identify them to Swiss border agents. In 1942, it explicitly closed its borders to Jews entirely. Here's the AP News on the subject, since you're not aware: https://apnews.com/article/0be18d0f36c04b86d7592bc6b16f7fa6

> During the Holocaust, the Swiss "neutrality"

And they saved 25000 domestic and 21000 immigrated Jews. Not much ... but compared to their country size, this was more than Vichy France.

In any case, why is reaching back more than 80 years relevant here? My country (Germany) did *WAY* bigger atrocities back then. From my point of view, the 80-years-ago swiss people were decent, giving the circumstances. We shouldn't forget that Switzerland was surrounded by Nazi countries or lackey countries: Hitler's Austria-Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Vichy France, occupied northern France. They did bad things, certainly. But there was also a lot of pressure involved.

And guess what: Switzerland paid reparations for this, a fact that people trying to bash Swiss behavior back then are unlikely to state.

>No one expects Switzerland to pick a side. They just expect their arms industry to honor their agreements and their government to be fiscally responsible and sell their retired gear back to it's manufacturers.

Can you provide a link which proves that switzerland has an obligation to sell its under licence in switzerland produced tanks which still are part of its military (reserve) to anyone? Thanks.

Supporting Ukraine over Russia is breaking with neutrality

> Switzerland is instead clearly picking Russia's side by

... implementing all EU sanction packets against Russia?

... by providing financial and civilian aid to Ukraine, like money for the government, generators, medical aid, winter clothes? The aid of Switzerland isn't that large, truth be told. But, compared by GDP, it's more than Turkey helps.

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