Planowany Anschluss Szwajcarii w czasie drugiej wojny światowej
Plans for the Anschluss of Switzerland during the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: Since 1933, when Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany, to the end of World War II, the independence of Switzerland was constantly threatened. From the beginning, Nazi propaganda sounded off about the unification of the German peoples under the banners of the Third Reich. However, Swiss neutrality gave the Germans such great material benefits that they ultimately abandoned their plans to annex Switzerland. Prior to the outbreak of World War II and throughout the War, the Swiss authorities collaborated with the Germans and imposed restrictions on the admission of European Jews. Nevertheless, owing to its status of a ‘perpetually’ neutral state and informal actions of a number of state officials, many human lives were saved. For many years after the war, the Swiss found themselves in a kind of political isolation from the countries fighting against the Nazi Third Reich, owing to Switzerland’s trade cooperation and trade in goods with all participants of the war.

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