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Survey Articles (Regional)
Regional
Switzerland
By Jakob Tanner
As a neutral country, Switzerland was not involved in the devastating military c…
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Commemoration (Switzerland)
By Béatrice Ziegler, Konrad Kuhn
This article examines how Switzerland has remembered and commemorated the First …
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Domestic Politics and Neutrality (Switzerland)
By Carlo Moos
Neutrality is a fundamental problem in modern Swiss history and played a pivotal…
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Exile and Migration (Switzerland)
By Anja Huber
This article analyses Swiss migration policy and Switzerland’s role as a country…
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Regional Thematic
Historiography 1918-Today (Switzerland)
By Daniel Marc Segesser
In a rapidly expanding universe of publications it is important to reflect from …
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Regional Thematic
International Committee of the Red Cross
By Daniel Palmieri, Irène Herrmann
This article seeks to analyze how the International Committee of the Red Cross (…
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Internees (Switzerland)
By Thomas Bürgisser
Swiss governmental and non-governmental organizations were intensely involved in…
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Labour, Labour Movements, Trade Unions and Strikes (Switzerland)
By Christian Koller
This article analyses the development of the Swiss labour movement and working-c…
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Literature (Switzerland)
By Nicole Billeter
During the First World War, many authors from neighbouring countries who spoke o…
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Regional Thematic
Swiss Companies in World War One (Switzerland)
By Roman Rossfeld
This article describes the business development and the opportunities and risks …
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Regional Thematic
Wartime and Post-war Economies (Switzerland)
By Tobias Straumann
Though Switzerland was not conquered, its economy was strongly affected by the F…
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Women, Gender, Social Movements (Switzerland)
By Elisabeth Joris
This article explores the war’s impact on women’s economic and legal status in S…
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Encyclopedic Entries
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Ador, Gustave
By Irène Herrmann
Ador was the third president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (IC…
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Border Occupation (Switzerland)
By Michael M. Olsansky
Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, the Swiss army moved into a s…
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Cendrars, Blaise
By Laurence Campa
The life and works of the poet Blaise Cendrars testify to a disturbing paradox: …
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Dada
By Josepha Laroche
Dada, a transnational movement of artists, was founded in Zurich in 1916. It dis…
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Feminist Pacifism
By Annika Wilmers
A minority section of the women’s movements opposed World War I and organized th…
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Grimm, Robert
By Adrian Zimmermann
Robert Grimm was the most powerful socialist politician in Switzerland throughou…
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Influenza Pandemic (Switzerland)
By Patrick Kury
The Spanish flu, the heaviest influenza pandemic in history, coincided with the …
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Island of Peace (Switzerland)
By Béatrice Ziegler
During World War I, the idea of Switzerland as a peaceful island was created and…
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Landesstreik (Switzerland)
By Bernard Degen
From 12 to 14 November 1918, a national general strike took place in Switzerland…
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Military Justice (Switzerland)
By Sebastian Steiner
In neutral Switzerland, the executive powers were strengthened more than in some…
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Neutrality
By Samuël Kruizinga
During the 19th century, neutrality evolved into a set of legal and political to…
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Oberstenaffäre
By Sebastian Steiner
The so-called “Oberstenaffäre” (colonel’s affair) was a political scandal in Swi…
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Oltener Aktionskomitee
By Bernard Degen
The Oltener Aktionskomitee was elected in February 1918 by the committee of the …
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Schweizerischer Vaterländischer Verband
By Dorothe Zimmermann
The Swiss Patriotic Federation (Schweizerischer Vaterländischer Verband, or SVV)…
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Société Suisse de Surveillance Economique (SSS)
By Florian Weber
The privately organized SSS existed from October 1915 to July 1919 to prevent Sw…
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Voices in the Storm (journal)
By Nicole Billeter
“Stimmen im Sturm” was a Swiss cooperative which published nine issues with deci…
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Vollmachtenregime
By Oliver Schneider
During the First World War, the Swiss federal government imposed a state of emer…
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Vorarlberg Referendum
By Wolfgang Weber
The latter Austrian Land Vorarlberg saw the rise of a grass root movement for a …
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Zimmerwald Conference
By Bernard Degen
Anti-war socialists from ten countries met in Zimmerwald in September 1915. They…
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Züblin-Spiller, Else
By Elisabeth Joris
In the context of the Swiss organisation Schweizer Verband Soldatenwohl Else Spi…
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International Law and the Laws of War
By Jean H. Quataert
The article examines international efforts to curb states’ war-making prerogativ…
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Labour Movements, Trade Unions and Strikes
By James Thompson
This article compares the history of labour movements during the war across a ra…
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League of Nations
By Anita Ziegerhofer
The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, the same day on which the L…
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Negotiating and Mediating Conduct of War
By Matthew Stibbe
Many issues surrounding the conduct of war in the years 1914-1918 were imperviou…
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Red Cross
By Cédric Cotter
National Red Cross societies played a very important role in the First World War…
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Social Conflict
By Claire Morelon
This article deals with the nature of social conflict during the war. The length…
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Willingly to War. Public Response to the Outbreak of War
By Jean-Jacques Becker
It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…
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