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49 relations: Akte Grüninger, Arnold von Winkelried, Battle of Sempach, Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs, Bergier commission, Bombings of Switzerland in World War II, Daniel Thürer, Demographics of Switzerland, Dutch-Paris, Early Modern Switzerland, Economy of Switzerland, Friedrich Traffelet, Grüningers Fall, Historiography of Switzerland, History of Switzerland, History of the Jews in Switzerland, Immigration to Switzerland, Index of Switzerland-related articles, Index of World War II articles (S), Ingolf Dahl, Interlaken, Ion Vinea, Leviathan (Westerfeld novel), List of concentration and internment camps, Marcel Hillaire, Maurice Bavaud, Militärhistorische Stiftung des Kantons Zug, Operation Tannenbaum, Outline of World War I, Pat Reid, Paul Grüninger, Peter Munk, Pro Libertate, Réseau AGIR, Rütli, Rütlischwur, Red Inferno: 1945, Romandy, Russia–Switzerland relations, Sigi Feigel, Swiss Armed Forces, Swiss playing cards, Switzerland, Toblerone line, Voyager (film), Wauwilermoos internment camp, What Is a Nation?, William Tell, World Jewish Congress lawsuit against Swiss banks.
Akte Grüninger
Akte Grüninger is a Swiss-Austrian feature film that was produced in 2013 for the Swiss television SRF.
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Arnold von Winkelried
Arnold von Winkelried or Arnold Winkelried is a legendary hero of Swiss history.
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Battle of Sempach
The Battle of Sempach was fought on 9 July 1386, between Leopold III, Duke of Austria and the Old Swiss Confederacy.
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Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs
The Battle of St.
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Bergier commission
The Bergier commission in Bern was formed by the Swiss government on 12 December 1996.
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Bombings of Switzerland in World War II
Bombings of Switzerland in World War II consisted of initially sporadic bombing events that became more frequent during the later stage of World War II.
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Daniel Thürer
Daniel Thürer (born 6 June 1945 in St. Gallen) is a Swiss jurist and professor emeritus of international, comparative constitutional and European law at the University of Zurich.
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Demographics of Switzerland
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Switzerland, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
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Dutch-Paris
Dutch-Paris was an underground network of the Dutch, Belgian and French Resistance with the objective to save people and smuggle documents during World War II.
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Early Modern Switzerland
The early modern history of the Old Swiss Confederacy (Eidgenossenschaft, also known as the "Swiss Republic" or Republica Helvetiorum) and its constituent Thirteen Cantons encompasses the time of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) until the French invasion of 1798.
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Economy of Switzerland
The economy of Switzerland is one of the world's most advanced economies.
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Friedrich Traffelet
Friedrich Eduard Traffelet, popularly Fritz Traffelet (1897–1954) was a Bernese painter and illustrator.
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Grüningers Fall
Grüningers Fall is a Swiss documentary film that was produced in 1997 for the Swiss television SRF.
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Historiography of Switzerland
The historiography of Switzerland is the study of the history of Switzerland.
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History of Switzerland
Since 1848, the Swiss Confederation has been a federal state of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.
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History of the Jews in Switzerland
History of the Jews in Switzerland reaches back at least a thousand years.
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Immigration to Switzerland
There has been significant immigration to Switzerland since the 1980s.
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Index of Switzerland-related articles
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to Switzerland.
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Index of World War II articles (S)
# S-1 Uranium Committee.
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Ingolf Dahl
Ingolf Dahl (June 9, 1912 – August 6, 1970) was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator.
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Interlaken
Interlaken (lit.: between lakes) is a statistic town and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern.
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Ion Vinea
Ion Vinea (born Ioan Eugen Iovanaki, sometimes Iovanache; April 17, 1895 – July 6, 1964) was a Romanian poet, novelist, journalist, literary theorist, and political figure.
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Leviathan (Westerfeld novel)
Leviathan is a 2009 dystopian novel written by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated by Keith Thompson.
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List of concentration and internment camps
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.
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Marcel Hillaire
Marcel Hillaire (born Erwin Ottmar Hiller; April 23, 1908 – January 1, 1988) was a German-born character actor who had a lengthy career, appearing on stage, in films and on television.
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Maurice Bavaud
Maurice Bavaud (January 15, 1916 in Neuchâtel – May 14, 1941 in Berlin-Plötzensee) was a Swiss theology student who in 1938 attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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Militärhistorische Stiftung des Kantons Zug
The Militärhistorische Stiftung des Kantons Zug MHSZ (Foundation of Military History of the Canton of Zug in English) is a foundation consisting of a group of Military Museums in the canton of Zug with the purpose of safeguarding and cultivating the military heritage of the Swiss Confederation in the canton of Zug.
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Operation Tannenbaum
Operation Tannenbaum ("Fir Tree"), known earlier as Operation Grün ("Green"), was a planned but cancelled invasion of Switzerland by Nazi Germany and Italy during World War II.
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Outline of World War I
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to World War I: World War I – major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
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Pat Reid
Patrick Robert Reid, MBE, MC (13 November 1910 – 22 May 1990) was a British Army officer and author of historical non-fiction.
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Paul Grüninger
Paul Grüninger (27 October 1891 - 22 February 1972) was a Swiss police commander in St. Gallen.
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Peter Munk
Peter Munk (November 8, 1927 – March 28, 2018) was a Hungarian-born Canadian businessman, investor, and philanthropist.
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Pro Libertate
Pro Libertate is an anti-communist, right-wing political association in Switzerland.
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Réseau AGIR
The Réseau AGIR (ACT Network) was a World War II espionage group founded by French wartime resister Michel Hollard that provided human intelligence on V-1 flying bomb facilities.
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Rütli
Rütli or Grütli is a mountain meadow on Lake Lucerne, in the Seelisberg municipality of the Swiss canton of Uri.
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Rütlischwur
The Rütlischwur is a legendary oath of the Old Swiss Confederacy, taken on the Rütli, a meadow above Lake Uri near Seelisberg.
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Red Inferno: 1945
Red Inferno: 1945 is a 2010 novel written by Robert Conroy, the author of other alternate history novels.
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Romandy
Romandy (la Romandie)Before World War I, the term French Switzerland (Suisse française) was. is the French-speaking part of western Switzerland. In 2010, about 1.9 million people, or 24.4% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. The bulk of romand population lives in the Arc Lémanique region along Lake Geneva, connecting Geneva, Vaud and the Lower Valais.
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Russia–Switzerland relations
Russia–Switzerland relations are foreign relations between Russia and Switzerland.
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Sigi Feigel
Sigi Feigel (17 May 1921, Zürich – 28 August 2004, Zürich) was a Swiss attorney, President and Honorary President of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), and notable for his campaigns against antisemitism and racism.
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Swiss Armed Forces
The Swiss Armed Forces (German: Schweizer Armee, French: Armée suisse, Italian: Esercito svizzero, Romanisch: Armada svizra) operates on land, in the air, and in international waters.
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Swiss playing cards
Parts of Swiss German speaking Switzerland have their own deck of playing cards.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Toblerone line
The Toblerone line is a 10-km long defensive line made of dragon's teeth that was built during the second World War between Bassins and Prangins, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
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Voyager (film)
Voyager (Homo Faber) is a 1991 English-language drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, and starring Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, and Barbara Sukowa.
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Wauwilermoos internment camp
Wauwilermoos was an internment camp and prisoner-of-war penal camp in Switzerland during World War II.
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What Is a Nation?
"What is a Nation?" ("Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?") is an 1882 lecture by French historian Ernest Renan (1823–1892), known for the statements that a nation is "a daily referendum", and that nations are based as much on what the people jointly forget, as what they remember.
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William Tell
William Tell (in the four languages of Switzerland: Wilhelm Tell; Guillaume Tell; Guglielmo Tell; Guglielm Tell) is a folk hero of Switzerland.
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World Jewish Congress lawsuit against Swiss banks
The World Jewish Congress lawsuit against Swiss banks was launched to retrieve deposits made into Swiss banks by victims of Nazi persecution during and prior to World War II.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_World_Wars
