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by Angelo M. Codevilla


  Lucy

  Luftwaffe

  Lugano; Swiss intelligence in

  Luther, Martin

  Luxembourg

  Machiavelli, Niccolò; balance of power and; foreign policy and; statesmanship and; Swiss military tradition and; Swiss people and

  Maginot Line

  The Making of a Jew (Bronfman)

  Mannerheim Line

  Manzoni, Alessandro

  Marilyn Manson

  Markorivikova et al. v. Swiss Bank Corporation et al.

  Marseilles

  Masson, Roger

  Matterhorn

  Mediterranean Sea

  Melians

  Melmer account

  Melos

  Mexico

  Michel

  Middle East

  Midway

  Military Department

  military deterrence: balance of power and; cost of invasion and; economics and; Swiss army and; Swiss independence and; Switzerland and

  Milosevic, Slobodan

  Minger, Rudolph

  Ministry of Armaments

  money: interest-group politics and; power and

  Monte Rosa

  Montesquieu, Baron de

  Morgenthau, Henry

  Morgenthau Plan

  Moscow

  Motta, Giuseppe

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

  Muschg, Adolf

  Mussolini, Benito

  National Frontists

  National Geographic

  National Resistance Movement (Aktion Nationaler Widerstand)

  National Zeitung

  NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

  Nazi Germany. See Germany

  Nazi Gold (Rings)

  Nazism

  Nazi subversion

  neomercantilism

  Netherlands

  Neue Basler Zeitung

  Neue Berner Zeitung

  Neue Zurcher Zeitung

  neutrality; of America; armed; balance of power and; economics and; economic warfare and; equidistance and; freedom of the press and; of Sweden; of Switzerland

  neutrals: Allied powers and; Germany and; gold and; Swiss franc and

  New Europe

  New European Order

  New World Order

  New York

  New York City

  New York Federal Reserve Bank

  New York Times

  New York Times Magazine

  Nicole, Leon

  Nine Inch Nails

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  North Korea

  North Vietnam

  Norway

  Nouvelle Histoire de la Suisse et des Suisses (Jost)

  Oberkommando Des Heeres

  Obrecht, Hermann

  Oeri, Albert

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

  official preference

  Oprecht, Max

  “Order Preliminarily Approving Material Terms of the Proposed Class Action Settlement Agreement and Provisionally Certifying the Proposed Settlement Classes,”

  Ottoman empire

  patriotism

  Peace in the Workplace

  Peloponnesian War

  Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)

  Pericles

  Persians

  Petain regime

  Peter, Saint

  Petitpierre, Max

  Pilet Golaz, Marcel; accommodation and; Alpine redoubt; freedom of the press and; German control of Switzerland and; lack of trust of; political concessions of; Swiss Foreign Ministry and; Swiss politics and

  Plaintiff Bar

  Pochon, Fritz

  Pohl, Emil

  Poland

  political ambivalence

  Political Department

  political parties

  political prudence

  “political refugee,”

  politics: balance of power and; interest-group

  Portugal: claims on German assets of; economic relationship between Germany and; Jewish refugees and; neutrality of

  Postal and Railroads Department

  Potsdam Conference

  Powell, Colin

  power: central; military; money and; soft

  The Prince (Machiavelli)

  Prisi, Fritz

  Pro Helvetia

  property rights

  pseudo events

  Public Economy Department

  Public Law 6761

  Punktationen

  Rado, Sandor

  Red Orchestra

  Reformation

  refugees. See immigration; Jewish refugees

  Reichsbank, gold trade and

  ReichsicherheitHauptant

  Reichsmarks

  Renaissance

  resistance: accommodation vs.; Guisan and; tactical

  Revue Militaire Suisse

  Rhine

  Rhineland

  Rhine valley

  Rhone valley

  Rings, Werner

  Rittmayer, Albert

  Roessler, Rudolf

  Rohm purge

  Roman Empire

  Roman Republic

  Romansch

  Rome

  Roosevelt, Franklin

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Roosevelt administration

  Rosenberg v. Swiss National Bank

  Rossy, Paul

  Rothmund, Heinrich

  Russia. See Soviet Union

  Russian uprisings of 1905,

  Salomon, Berthold Jacob

  Sanhedrin

  Sargans

  Sarine River

  Sauckel, Fritz

  Schaffhausen

  Schellenberg, Walter

  Schlesinger, James

  Schroeder, Gerhard

  Schumer, Charles

  Schurch, Mr.

  Schuschnigg, Kurt von

  Schwyz

  SchwyzerDeutsch

  Seagram Company

  security, universal

  Senate Banking Committee

  Senate Bill

  separation of powers

  Serbia

  settlement agreement: absolution and; categories of beneficiaries and; Clinton administration and; distribution of proceeds from; Eizenstat and; Federal Council and; Hevesi and;

  settlement agreement (cont.) Korman and; plaintiffs’ allegations and; proper treatment and; Singer and; Swiss banks and; WJC and. See also anti-Swiss campaign; Swiss banks

  Seyss-Inquart, Artur von

  Shakur, Tupac

  Sicily

  Simon Wiesenthal Center

  Simplon tunnel

  Sinai campaign (1973)

  Singer, Israel: Eizenstat report and; publication of names and; settlement agreement and; Switzerland’s neutrality and

  Slany, William

  slave labor

  Snoop Doggy Dogg

  Socialist Party; consensus and; Federal Council and; Swiss immigration policy and

  soft power

  Sondrio

  South Africa

  Soviet Union; anti-Americanism and; attack of Finland by; economic relationships of; as enemy; German attack of; German invasion of; gold trade and; intelligence in; Jews in; Napoleon’s retreat from; Nazi invasion of; resistance of Nazi Germany and; slave labor in

  Spain; economic relationship between Germany and; Jewish refugees and; neutrality of

  Sparta

  Spartans

  Sprecher, Theophil von

  St. Gotthard Massif

  St. Maurice fortress

  St. Moritz

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stalingrad

  Stalin-Hitler Pact

  Stampfli, Walter

  State Department

  statesmanship

  Stefani (Italian agency)

  Steiger, Eduard von

  Stettinius, Jr., E. R.

  Stone, Oliver

  Strasbourg

  subversion; military power and; Nazi; Swiss Confederation and

  Sulzer, Hans

 
Sweden; economic relationship between Germany and; German counterblockade and; neutrality of

  Swiss Bank Corporation

  Swiss Bankers’ Association

  Swiss banks: assets of Nazis and; Europe’s wealth in; Jewish assets and; Jewish money deposited in; Nazi profits in; settlement agreement and; suit against; unclaimed accounts in. See also anti-Swiss campaign; settlement agreement

  Swiss Confederation

  Swiss franc: Allied powers and; Axis powers and; demand for; German counterblockade and; Germans and; gold trade and; Swiss economy and value of

  Swiss intelligence: counterespionage and; failures of; Federal Council and; Germany and; Guisan and; High Command and; reputation of; structure of; World War II and

  Swiss National Bank; gold market and

  Swiss People’s Party

  Switzerland: accommodation and; Allies and; Alpine redoubt of; American image of; Axis powers and; blockades and; claims on German assets of; Clinton administration and; Communists in; democracy in; diversity in; economic deterrence and; economic policy of; economic relationship between Germany and; as economic safe haven; economy of; Eizenstat report and; financial market of; foreign policy of; France and; freedom of the press and; German assets and; German counterblockade and; German invasion of; German use for; Germany and; gold trade and; Holocaust and; immigration in; independence of; industry in; intelligence in; Israel and; Jewish refugees in; Joint Statement and; leadership in; merchandise trade and; military deterrence and; military of; military planning of; Nazi Party of; Nazi subversion and; Nazi subversion in; neutrality of; patriotism in; political parties in; soldiers of; tactical resistance by; terrain of; U.S. economic sanctions of; WJC settlement with; in World War I. See also anti-Swiss campaign

  Switzerland’s Humiliation

  Switzerland Faced by the American Empire

  Tacitus

  Texas

  Thermopylae

  Third Punic War

  Thucydides

  Thuringia

  Ticino valley

  Tocqueville, Alexis de

  Treasury Department

  treaty of October

  Trepper, Leopold

  Truman, Harry

  Truman administration

  Trump, Georg

  tunnel treaty of 1909

  Turkey

  U.S. Export-Import Bank

  U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation

  U.S.-Swiss agreement (1946)

  U.S. Treasury

  Überfremdung

  UBS

  unemployment

  Une Suisse Sans Armée

  Union Bank of Switzerland: settlement agreement and; UBS and

  United Nations

  United States. See America

  universal security

  Unterwalden

  Uri

  Valaisan

  Valtellina

  Vance-Owen plan

  Versailles Treaty

  Vienna

  Vietnam

  Vietnam War

  Viking Line

  Volcker, Paul: auditing of accounts and; settlement agreement and

  Volcker commission

  Volkswagen

  Wahlen, Friedrich Traugott

  Waldheim, Kurt

  Wallensee

  Wall Street Journal

  war: democracy and; economic relationships and; enemies and; foreign policy in; materials essential to; property rights and; realities of

  War of 1812

  War Trade Agreement

  Washington, George

  Weber, Eugen

  Wehrbriefe

  Wehrmacht

  Weibel, Max

  Weiss, Melvyn I.

  Weisshaus, Gizella

  Weisshaus et al. v. Union Bank of Switzerland et al.

  Wille, Ulrich

  willingness to die

  Wilson, Woodrow

  World Jewish Congress (WJC): anti-Swiss campaign and; Bronfman and; campaign against Germany and; class action lawsuits and; Clinton and; distribution of settlement proceeds and; Eisenhower administration and; Holocaust reports and; power of; reparations from Swiss government and; settlement agreement and; Singer and; suit against Swiss banks of; Swiss public opinion of; Swiss reparations and; Swiss settlement with

  World Jewish Restitution Organization

  World War I: economic warfare and; France and; freedom of the press and; Germans in; Germany and; Switzerland in; Überfremdung and

  World War II: balance of power in; context of; critical period of; economics and; financial settlements following; hard currency and; lessons from; neutrals in

  Yugoslavia

  Zeiss

  Zulus

  Zurich; Swiss intelligence in

  Zurich Lake

  Zurich National Exposition of 1939

  Zymanska, Halina

  Copyright © 2000 by Angelo M. Codevilla

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