Talk:Switzerland during the World Wars

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"effectuated" ? Ouch. Is that even a word?

Yes. — g026r 06:26, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion of the World War I section

This section is tiny and insignificant. There needs to be more elaboration and more filling to this section. Please add info to this section. Jean-Paul 07:42, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swiss concentration camps

Please, somebody who knows about this subject: write a Wikipedia article about it. I heard on a radio program devoted to music that a great violinist, Josef Schmidt (sp?) died in a Swiss "concentration camp" [the words of the radio host]. So I headed to Wikipedia to see if neutral Switzerland could in fact have had concentration camps. As of today (13 Aug 07) there is nothing in Wikipedia even remotely related to this subject. But after much Googling I came up with an interesting website: http://swissinternees.tripod.com/wauwilermoos.html

I'm not an historian so I feel uncomfortable writing a Wikipedia article - but someone needs to, I feel.

Thanks!

71.129.174.133 20:01, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

hi! the word concentration camp is wrong in this context. --Philtime (talk) 11:47, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

The largest internment camp in switzerland, opened in 1940 in Bueren, was a trial to reach better managament efficieny by concentrating the internees in one place. For a short duration, the internment camp was thus called "Concentrationslager" (note the different spelling to the german "Konzentrationslager" and no, it wasnt anything like a germen Konzentrationslager). After management problems and clashes between polish inmates and guards, the whole project was regarded as a failure. See also ""Concentrationslager": Büren an der Aare 1940-1946 : das grösste Flüchtlingslager der Schweiz im Zweiten Weltkrieg ", ISBN-13: 978-3906419039 129.132.31.142 (talk) 11:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)Nik, 12:51,

[edit] Merge articles

It seems that there are three articles with overlapping information:
1. History of Switzerland
2. Modern history of Switzerland
3. Switzerland during the World Wars
I think these should be combined -- or if that is too long for one article, at least edit them so they do not overlap. --Semitemos (talk) 01:39, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

No merging here. See Talk:History_of_Switzerland#Merge_articles. Lupo 16:03, 19 January 2008 (UTC)