About #2 our banking privacy is so deeply rooted. That nobody gets access to your wealth in case you die. Not sure if that was against Jews back then.
But you still need to explicitly allow a third party access to your account in case something bad happens to you.
Not exactly sure about #1 but Americans haven't been all welcome after they bombed down so many cultural heritages including civils in surrounding countries. It's that small part the winner decided to net get into history.
> shooting dead American soldiers they found inside Switzerland who had escaped from German POW camps
Prisoners of war were treated really bad in Switzerland. Wikipedia has detailed article about the Wauwilermoss internment camp [1] and links to additional literature. There was a SRF Dok report on this but sadly it's no longer available.
The commander of that camp was sentenced to 3+ years in prison after the war, and some of the inhuman behaviour mentioned in the wikipedia article was that internees were held for 75 days without a proper trial. Meanwhile, the US is actively holding POWs without a trial for nearly 20 years: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-d... — and the idea of accountability for US law enforcement / detention officials is considered tantamount to treason.
As for "worse than a German POW camp", as claimed by some US sources in the wikipedia article... nope. Even disregarding the stark discrepancy between the treatment of western allied soldiers and Russian POWs in German camps (of the latter, more than half died in the camps, many murdered outright), treatment of Western POWs was not all that great. As disgraceful as the conditions at Wauwilermoos for escapees from other POW camps were, this is what could have faced them in a German camp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III_murders
Yes I keep hearing these lies and half-truths being repeated by same type of people who don't bother to actually check history, which is never further than few clicks away. They always claim the same, I heard these arguments countless times.
KennyBlanken doesn't understand a thing about swiss banking secrecy rights. They were invented much earlier than world wars, aimed to provide swiss citizens privacy that was unmatched anywhere else in the world. That situation evolved and those accounts were used by nazis and jews in a way that wasn't expected (tons of money but often nobody to claim them) doesn't remove the fact tons of people wanting privacy are using similar approach these days all around the world.
Third point is a blatant lie too - when gold was purchased nobody knew about concentration camps which were at its height at last years of the war. The concept of being neutral is so foreign to people who are on the other side they apparently can't comprehend that neutral country is doing business with both sides.
Point 1 - do you have some reference? There were US military personnel interned ie when their bombers which presumably by mistake (but not always) killed scores of swiss civilians in border cities by bombing, and then crashed in Swiss territory. Neutral behavior at its best.
There is not a single country that did only moral things during WWII, everybody fucked up one way or the other. They accepted tons of jews fleeing nazis even after it was clear that country completely surrounded by nazis can't feed itself. At one point they stopped but canton Geneva continued regardless of federal decision. That's what I call humanity.
They helped allies in Italy by giving them full access to piece of italian land called Campione d'Italia in canton Ticino in south, which is completely surrounded by Swiss territory. Allies, mainly US waged quite a few secret operations from there. I agree not very neutral behavior in this case.
Hitler had plan for invading Switzerland after they conquer east, but was very much aware that every adult male had military training up to date and his service rifle at home. They expected strong resistance since Swiss fiercely guarded their sovereignty, combined with uneasy terrain in southern/western parts even mighty Wehrmacht went rather to more predictable fights.
I think you misunderstood. Not everyone was a nazi, but seeing your hundreds of years old town completely destroyed and your friends and family dead is something that nobody enjoys
But you still need to explicitly allow a third party access to your account in case something bad happens to you.
Not exactly sure about #1 but Americans haven't been all welcome after they bombed down so many cultural heritages including civils in surrounding countries. It's that small part the winner decided to net get into history.