William Tyler
Swiss Neutrality
Summary
Goebbels described Switzerland as ‘this stinking little state’. This lecture looks at how a policy of ‘armed neutrality’ kept the Nazis out of Switzerland along with the country’s secret links to The Allies.
William Tyler
William Tyler has spent his entire professional life in adult education, beginning at Kingsgate College in 1969. He has lectured widely for many public bodies, including the University of Cambridge and the WEA, in addition to speaking to many clubs and societies. In 2009, William was awarded the MBE for services to adult education, and he has previously been a scholar in residence at the London Jewish Cultural Centre.
I can’t go there, it will be too long. Let us simply say that the Swedes were, let me simply say that other Nordic countries still have problems with Sweden because of what it did in World War II. And what it did was to supply, not weapons so much as the raw materials to make the weapons to Germany, but it also did provide weapons as well. And yeah, Sweden, we’d have to do a separate talk about Sweden.
Oh, it’s always a very small number. I haven’t got the figure for 1914, I don’t think. No, it’s… It’s something around 12 to 15,000, that’s all.
I can’t answer that, George, I really don’t know. It’s one of those unexplainable things.