Anthology: How Switzerland Remained Neutral In Two World Wars

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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How was Switzerland able to remain neutral in the two world wars? Why was a tiny mountainous nation of watch-makers, bankers, and chocolateers able to dictate their own fate at a time when nobody else could? In this episode I answer this listener question and three others, and they all have to do with critical events in European history that could have changed the continent's fate. The other three questions I answer are as follows.What if Spain had become disunified after the War of Spanish Succession?Could German Unification have taken place without Otto von Bismarck?What is the largest massacre still denied today?

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1:00.0	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
1:05.0	The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, myth busts historical lies,
1:11.0	and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.
1:15.0	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
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1:26.0	This is an anthology episode where I answer a number of listener questions and bundle them up in a common theme.
1:33.0	Today's theme has to do with Europe, but more specifically events in Europe that were critical in the 1700s and 1800s and early 1900s,
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