As a founding member of the Green movement in Switzerland I had the same experience:
In the mid-eighties of the last century, I treated the then Soviet military attaché in my neurological practice in Bern, a tank colonel in civilian clothes, about 45 years old, tall, slim, alert, highly intelligent, fit as a fiddle, speaking French without an accent, with perfect manners and stunning charm. The fact that Moscow sent such a highly qualified man may have had something to do with Switzerland's traditional role as a spy hub in the heart of Europe.
I took a liking to him and after the consultations, as a Green parliamentarian and regimental doctor, I informed him in detail about our country and our army, within the bounds of what was permissible, of course. Our telephone conversations, on the other hand, were limited to medical matters, according to the Swiss counterintelligence interception logs that later came into my hands.
His greatest concern was the resurgence of Germany and especially the German Greens. He feared that they would once again sow the seeds of nationalist blood and soil. His fears seemed genuine and elementary. That was long before Putin. As a Green insider and parliamentarian, I was able to reassure him: The Greens were harmless vegetarian pacifists and army opponents who couldn't hurt a fly. That's what I thought at the time.
I guess there are many similar stories all over Europe. It is weird how people can behave in ways that are in contrast to everything they profess to believe, and feel that they are doing that for the public good.
Dear collegue, I organised this party in our town Bern from 1983 and knew 100 percent of its first members and also its funding. It came only from us. We never had any outside sources. The members were all rather well-off bourgeois intellectuals, physicians, scientists, architects, teachers, people who were able to understand the implications of the first report of the Club of Rome. The same is true for all the early Green movements in all Swiss towns. While we always were different from the German Greens, to my surprise there is now also a militaristic Green wing in Switzerland.
I also was among the founding members of the Green Party in Florence. A group of mostly middle-class, learned people who understood many things correctly. Then, the party was infiltrated by a band of career politicians who saw a chance to get some votes. Mostly, they were former communists. For a certain period, there were two green parties in Italy; the second one was staffed mostly by these orphaned left-wing politicians. Then, the movement degenerated in various ways. Right now, the greens are so few and so despised in Italy that I think the warmongers didn't think they were worth infiltrating.
How interesting. Same thing in Switzerland, from 1990 on we were infiltrated by former communists, who transformed the originally liberal ecological party into an uncomfortable extreme left-wing and sectarian movement.
One of the meetings that prepared the creation of the “green party” in Belgium (the “Agalev” party) took place in my apartment at Pothoekstraat 10 in Antwerp in 1979. I then gave clear cybernetic arguments (the causal loops as they became known since the Club of Rome) why the creation of a party with those specific themes is undesirable (the self-fulfilling prophecies versus the self-denying prophecies). The meeting was hijacked by one person: Ludo Dierickx, who dismissed me as a “youngster who doesn’t understand politics”. The party came into being and Dierickx then went to sit in parliament for the party. Since then I have kept my distance from all political initiatives.
He did not mention. I understood later when I was married during 21 years to a former citizen of the UdSSR and repeatedly travelled there. I wrote a book in German whcih now appears chapterweise on substack (I am slow in translating).
In a nutshell Germany attacked Russia in 1917, killed 1,7 million Russian soldiers, conquered the Ukraine, took all the industrial installations away and used the population for slave labour.
In WWII Germany killed 6 mio Jews and everybody speaks of the "uniqueness of the holocaust". This serves to the Germans to repress and forget the fact that they also had killed four time more non-jewish and subhuman Slavs in Poland and Russia with absolute unimaginable brutaliy. The Wehrmacht ran 150 military brothels, where they abused and killed tenthousands of Russian women etc. That's why no Russian can tolerate the Germans in the Ukraine again, not even in the sheepskin of NATO. This has nothing to do with Putin.
Vielen Dank, Lukas. History is important. The "City of London interests" still seek to turn Germany to war against Russia, and everybody else, too.
German Taurus cruise missiles will attack Moscow: Merz Says Western Alliance Has Lifted 'Absolutely' All Range Limits For Arms Sent To Ukraine
He claimed further, "Now it can. In jargon, we call this long-range fire, i.e., equipping Ukraine with weapons that attack military targets in the rear. And that is the decisive qualitative difference in Ukraine's warfare. Russia attacks civilian targets absolutely ruthlessly, bombing cities, kindergartens, hospitals, and old people's homes." He added: "Ukraine does not do that." "And we attach great importance to keeping it that way," Merz said. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/merz-says-western-alliance-has-lifted-range-absolutely-all-range-limits-arms-sent
Yes, its frightening. But then we were always afraid of the Germans. My grand-grandfather was personal adjudant to the German Kaiser Wilhelm when in 1912 with his generals he inspected maneuvers of the Swiss army to decide if he should attack France through Belgium or through Switzerland. Everybody was aware of that. My great-uncle directed the armament of Switzerland before WWII, with the effect that Hitler did not attack because he could not spare the necessary 300'000-500'000 men on his other fronts. And now they are starting again. Merz is insane with his Taurus. And as Ugo Bardi said: The Ukraine war has nothing to do with European interests, it was a war to expand US hegemony. Now that Trump backs out the Europeans are clueless. I have some chapters about this in my book. I am translating and putting one chapter on substack every day.
A good read. One pernickety issue…..’Russian troops’ massacre of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha’. There is no evidence that Russian troops committed any ‘massacre’ here. There is excellent reason to believe this massacre (of civilians) was committed by Azov & other Ukrainian Nazis, who followed the departing Russians into Bucha, and then executed Ukrainian civilians for ‘collaborating’ with Russia (ie: receiving food rations), then used the deaths as a false flag to smear the RF armed forces.
Hitler's Nazis could be seen as forerunners of green parties and from that perspective the combination of "green" and "militarism" isn't a coincidence:
The Nazi "ecologists" promoted conservation and organic farming, and practised vegetarianism', writes Lord Giddens on page 51 of his book. 'The Reich Nature Protection Law, passed in 1935, together with other legislation, had the aim of preventing damage to the environment in undeveloped areas, protecting forests and animals and reducing air pollution.'
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. By violation of the Nuremberg laws I mean the same kind of crimes for which people were hanged in Nuremberg. And Nuremberg means Nuremberg and Tokyo. So first of all you’ve got to think back as to what people were hanged for at Nuremberg and Tokyo.
As for Switzerland - and I am Swiss - one can say the following: Not one Swiss Jew came to harm, in contrast to German, French, Dutch, Italian, Austrian, Polish, Danish Jews etc. In addition Switzerland took - perhaps not enough - but anyway substantially more Jewish refugees than the US which is about 200 times bigger than we are. Switzerland was so well armed (Churchill said, that we were the only ones ready) that Hitler did not have the 300'000-500'000 men left for an attack. This said, Switzerland was completely surrounded, there was rationing and hunger, no coal, nor any other raw materials and the government and the industry had to somehow meddle through, e.g. by producing for the Germans. But there was also some production for the Allieds. All this was not perfect and not as well as one would have wished. There was also some corruption but not in the order of magnitude of the third Reich. As for the gold the Germans would have found other means to use it as currency, because gold is the only hard currency everywhere and even now. A prolongation of the war by years by Switzerland is highly improbable, perhaps it might have been some weeks. Anyway, Mr. Ziegler is well known here, I was with him in the Swiss parliament. He exaggerates on ANY topic to get some applause, but this is mostly theatre.
Switzerland and Germany already had a beneficial trading partnership which helped Germany’s war effort. Additionally, the neutral but infamous Swiss banks made Switzerland useful to the Nazis.
On the subject of exaggeration, that also applies to the Western interpretation of Hitler's Nazis:
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Adolf Hitler’s Armed Forces:
A Triumph for Diversity?
Veronica Clark
Triumph of diversity: This is precisely what characterized the German Armed Forces of World War II by the year 1945. While this may be difficult for many historians to accept, it is nevertheless an accurate summation of what happened in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Even though the Germans initiated their war with a racist doctrine in mind, one that sought to create a “New Order” for Europe, with Germany at the center and German elites at the top of the European political and racial hierarchy (a German version of the so-called “White man’s burden,” so to speak), the Germans nevertheless had to scrap this racial doctrine for one that promoted internationalism and tolerated multicultural and interethnic cooperation and intimate relations. Many Nazis were deeply affected by the non-Germans with whom they fought and worked. For example, Fritz Freitag ended up throwing Nazi doctrine to the wind, and instead focused on building a Ukrainian liberation army.
As for the "good treatment" of foreign workers in Germany during WW2: Besides the two million killed and starved Sovjet prisoners of war another million was brought to death by slave labor with insufficient and horrible food. French and Dutch foreign workers fared better but not as well as the Germans. They were not free, had to collaborate or be starved and shot.
Noting that you are a Dutch electronics engineer (Philips? my father was best friends with Prof.Casimir) may I be permitted to explain how the "beneficial trading relationship" between Germany and Switzerland came to be: Hitler in 1940 threatened to invade Switzerland with the help of Mussolini. There was a detailed plan (Tannenbaum, its all on Wikipedia), and lists of Jews and anti-nazi personalities to liquidate were already ready. Because the 300'000-500'000 troops were not readily available this plan was postponed until the "final victory" and Switzerland - completely surrounded and dependent - was pressed into a trade deal which forced us to produce for Germany in exchange for coal and raw materials. This was highly official, it was known and not even ciritizised by the allies. Therefore we somehow survived and I thank my government, my general and the generation of my parents that they rescued my quarter-Jewish grandmother and avoided the fate of the Dutch nation (which besides had many collborators).
I worked for an electronics magazine that soon became international and with over 100,000 subscribers that also implied the same amount of potential critics of my designs - among those readers / critics, colleagues working for large companies (including Philips) as application engineers.
Humans could be described as too emotional mammals and one of the consequences is that war crimes, torture and similar behavior is widespread. As a rule a victor of a war writes the "cleaned up" history for the conquered areas (re WW2 all US + vassal states aka "allies").
Regarding Switzerland any other behavior would have been (more) harmful and compared to what "the allies" did it's a nonissue.
There we are on the same page. I am an avid reader of Chomsky.
But - as my father used to say - the real insult that an aggressor causes is to bring out the worst traits of human character in the people he aggressed. Churchill - a warmonger - only came into power after everything else had failed. If Britain bombed Dresden its the Germans who began (Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Blitz, Coventry). That the Germans did not bomb more is only due to the British and Polish pilots of the battle of Britain.
And - as big as the war crimes of the Allies might have been - they are insignificant in comparision of 6 mio Jews and the (always forgotten) 20 mio civilian Slavs killed by the most methodic and brutal techniques.
When thinking in a cause-effect chain, things are different. It's well documented that the colonization of the America's caused between 100-140 million deaths among the native peoples, the majority caused by the British invaders. That policy became US policy. As part of the global population back then, that might have been the largest holocaust on this planet yet.
The Bolshevik revolution was made and paid for by the US (with British support) and without that, hatred against Russia (and subsequent wars) could not have been waged.
Hitler too was supported by US banks, and corporations even during the war but without that support, the slaughter would have been impossible.
One of the links I posted mentioned that "Hitler is of 2 minds" because his army was one of the most diverse re ethnicity (including some 150,000 Jews too) yet he ran extermination camps.
The article doesn't mention the Balfour Declaration, promising "homeland for Jews". From that perspective, Hitlers extermination camps provided a perfect reason for that Jewish state and when reading Henry Makow's site, he has references for good relations between the British (agencies) and Hitler and even suggests, Hitler was a British agent. Probably worse, he shows that Trump, Putin and Netanyahu are members of same Babylonian-Jewish (death) cult, Chabad-Lubavitch.
With this recent confession the issue might be clear:
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who held office from 2006 to 2009, is accusing his country of committing war crimes in Gaza after leading Israeli cabinet members said that they want to starve Gaza. He wrote in an Israeli newspaper that Israel’s ongoing military campaign as “indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians.”
He said that he believes that a group of messianic right-winger extremists (Chabad-Lubavitch) are now leading the government and dictating to Netanyahu what should be done and how to do it.
Ugo, The review you cited of your book "Exterminations" contained the following statement: What are the things that make people vulnerable to being exterminated - and how to navigate it if you ever find yourself in that situation? The author's main point, that people vulnerable to extermination meet three criteria, is deeply important. Basically - 1) a subgroup that can be identified easily, 2) assets that can be confiscated 3) the lack of effective military defense." Ukraine and Taiwan, for example, are very likely to agree with all three items. How do you reconcile item 3 with the current post? What is the proper balance of thought and need in regard to the military defense of Europe when outsourcing to the US is not the option it used to be?
Well, point "1" is the key: "as long as you are a subgroup easily identifiable" you will eventually be exterminated. To avoid that, there are two possible strategies. One is that you cease to be a "subgroup" and you arm yourself to the teeth. But if you are a "subgroup" you have no chance to succeed unless you rely on another, larger group for protection. The other way is to merge with the leading group in such a way as not to be easily identifiable. Once, the Ukrainians saw themselves as Russians, and the Russians saw them as Russians who spoke a slightly different Russian dialect -- just like Texans in the US, so they were already "merged". But recently the Ukrainians used the other strategy -- much riskier. It doesn't seem to be working so well. But sometimes it works, see the case of Kosovo and Serbia. We'll see what happens when Texas secedes from the US. :-)
As a founding member of the Green movement in Switzerland I had the same experience:
In the mid-eighties of the last century, I treated the then Soviet military attaché in my neurological practice in Bern, a tank colonel in civilian clothes, about 45 years old, tall, slim, alert, highly intelligent, fit as a fiddle, speaking French without an accent, with perfect manners and stunning charm. The fact that Moscow sent such a highly qualified man may have had something to do with Switzerland's traditional role as a spy hub in the heart of Europe.
I took a liking to him and after the consultations, as a Green parliamentarian and regimental doctor, I informed him in detail about our country and our army, within the bounds of what was permissible, of course. Our telephone conversations, on the other hand, were limited to medical matters, according to the Swiss counterintelligence interception logs that later came into my hands.
His greatest concern was the resurgence of Germany and especially the German Greens. He feared that they would once again sow the seeds of nationalist blood and soil. His fears seemed genuine and elementary. That was long before Putin. As a Green insider and parliamentarian, I was able to reassure him: The Greens were harmless vegetarian pacifists and army opponents who couldn't hurt a fly. That's what I thought at the time.
How could I have been so wrong.
I guess there are many similar stories all over Europe. It is weird how people can behave in ways that are in contrast to everything they profess to believe, and feel that they are doing that for the public good.
The Russian Colonel may have known more about where the Green Party funding was originating than you did.
Dear collegue, I organised this party in our town Bern from 1983 and knew 100 percent of its first members and also its funding. It came only from us. We never had any outside sources. The members were all rather well-off bourgeois intellectuals, physicians, scientists, architects, teachers, people who were able to understand the implications of the first report of the Club of Rome. The same is true for all the early Green movements in all Swiss towns. While we always were different from the German Greens, to my surprise there is now also a militaristic Green wing in Switzerland.
I also was among the founding members of the Green Party in Florence. A group of mostly middle-class, learned people who understood many things correctly. Then, the party was infiltrated by a band of career politicians who saw a chance to get some votes. Mostly, they were former communists. For a certain period, there were two green parties in Italy; the second one was staffed mostly by these orphaned left-wing politicians. Then, the movement degenerated in various ways. Right now, the greens are so few and so despised in Italy that I think the warmongers didn't think they were worth infiltrating.
How interesting. Same thing in Switzerland, from 1990 on we were infiltrated by former communists, who transformed the originally liberal ecological party into an uncomfortable extreme left-wing and sectarian movement.
The kind of things that drive people into depression.
I share the same experience.
One of the meetings that prepared the creation of the “green party” in Belgium (the “Agalev” party) took place in my apartment at Pothoekstraat 10 in Antwerp in 1979. I then gave clear cybernetic arguments (the causal loops as they became known since the Club of Rome) why the creation of a party with those specific themes is undesirable (the self-fulfilling prophecies versus the self-denying prophecies). The meeting was hijacked by one person: Ludo Dierickx, who dismissed me as a “youngster who doesn’t understand politics”. The party came into being and Dierickx then went to sit in parliament for the party. Since then I have kept my distance from all political initiatives.
Thank you, Lukas. What DID the Colonel know that made him uneasy?
He did not mention. I understood later when I was married during 21 years to a former citizen of the UdSSR and repeatedly travelled there. I wrote a book in German whcih now appears chapterweise on substack (I am slow in translating).
In a nutshell Germany attacked Russia in 1917, killed 1,7 million Russian soldiers, conquered the Ukraine, took all the industrial installations away and used the population for slave labour.
In WWII Germany killed 6 mio Jews and everybody speaks of the "uniqueness of the holocaust". This serves to the Germans to repress and forget the fact that they also had killed four time more non-jewish and subhuman Slavs in Poland and Russia with absolute unimaginable brutaliy. The Wehrmacht ran 150 military brothels, where they abused and killed tenthousands of Russian women etc. That's why no Russian can tolerate the Germans in the Ukraine again, not even in the sheepskin of NATO. This has nothing to do with Putin.
Vielen Dank, Lukas. History is important. The "City of London interests" still seek to turn Germany to war against Russia, and everybody else, too.
German Taurus cruise missiles will attack Moscow: Merz Says Western Alliance Has Lifted 'Absolutely' All Range Limits For Arms Sent To Ukraine
He claimed further, "Now it can. In jargon, we call this long-range fire, i.e., equipping Ukraine with weapons that attack military targets in the rear. And that is the decisive qualitative difference in Ukraine's warfare. Russia attacks civilian targets absolutely ruthlessly, bombing cities, kindergartens, hospitals, and old people's homes." He added: "Ukraine does not do that." "And we attach great importance to keeping it that way," Merz said. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/merz-says-western-alliance-has-lifted-range-absolutely-all-range-limits-arms-sent
First time since 1945: Germany Deploys Permanent Troops To Lithuania As Russian Offensive Builds https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-deploys-permanent-troops-lithuania-russain-offensive-builds
Yes, its frightening. But then we were always afraid of the Germans. My grand-grandfather was personal adjudant to the German Kaiser Wilhelm when in 1912 with his generals he inspected maneuvers of the Swiss army to decide if he should attack France through Belgium or through Switzerland. Everybody was aware of that. My great-uncle directed the armament of Switzerland before WWII, with the effect that Hitler did not attack because he could not spare the necessary 300'000-500'000 men on his other fronts. And now they are starting again. Merz is insane with his Taurus. And as Ugo Bardi said: The Ukraine war has nothing to do with European interests, it was a war to expand US hegemony. Now that Trump backs out the Europeans are clueless. I have some chapters about this in my book. I am translating and putting one chapter on substack every day.
A good read. One pernickety issue…..’Russian troops’ massacre of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha’. There is no evidence that Russian troops committed any ‘massacre’ here. There is excellent reason to believe this massacre (of civilians) was committed by Azov & other Ukrainian Nazis, who followed the departing Russians into Bucha, and then executed Ukrainian civilians for ‘collaborating’ with Russia (ie: receiving food rations), then used the deaths as a false flag to smear the RF armed forces.
Note that Fabian Schneider doesn't endorse the story told in the West about the slaughter. He only reports the words of a Green Politician about that.
Hitler's Nazis could be seen as forerunners of green parties and from that perspective the combination of "green" and "militarism" isn't a coincidence:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/green-and-the-brown/nazis-and-the-environment-a-relevant-topic/1291E42DFAD29B728A8BF1A721ABFBF3
For a second opinion:
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The Nazi "ecologists" promoted conservation and organic farming, and practised vegetarianism', writes Lord Giddens on page 51 of his book. 'The Reich Nature Protection Law, passed in 1935, together with other legislation, had the aim of preventing damage to the environment in undeveloped areas, protecting forests and animals and reducing air pollution.'
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/climatechange/2009/05/ever_wondered_why_it_is.html
Considering the above, the EU could be renamed to HH (Hitler's Heirs) - with the full support of the US again. Back then,
How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany throughout World War II
https://libcom.org/article/how-allied-multinationals-supplied-nazi-germany-throughout-world-war-ii
So called "neutral" Switzerland:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/how-swiss-oiled-hitler-s-killing-machine-1274447.html
This prophetic speech (~1990)
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. By violation of the Nuremberg laws I mean the same kind of crimes for which people were hanged in Nuremberg. And Nuremberg means Nuremberg and Tokyo. So first of all you’ve got to think back as to what people were hanged for at Nuremberg and Tokyo.
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https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/
As for Switzerland - and I am Swiss - one can say the following: Not one Swiss Jew came to harm, in contrast to German, French, Dutch, Italian, Austrian, Polish, Danish Jews etc. In addition Switzerland took - perhaps not enough - but anyway substantially more Jewish refugees than the US which is about 200 times bigger than we are. Switzerland was so well armed (Churchill said, that we were the only ones ready) that Hitler did not have the 300'000-500'000 men left for an attack. This said, Switzerland was completely surrounded, there was rationing and hunger, no coal, nor any other raw materials and the government and the industry had to somehow meddle through, e.g. by producing for the Germans. But there was also some production for the Allieds. All this was not perfect and not as well as one would have wished. There was also some corruption but not in the order of magnitude of the third Reich. As for the gold the Germans would have found other means to use it as currency, because gold is the only hard currency everywhere and even now. A prolongation of the war by years by Switzerland is highly improbable, perhaps it might have been some weeks. Anyway, Mr. Ziegler is well known here, I was with him in the Swiss parliament. He exaggerates on ANY topic to get some applause, but this is mostly theatre.
It's less likely this is an exaggeration:
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Did Switzerland help Germany in ww2?
December 14, 2021 by Bridget Gibson
Switzerland and Germany already had a beneficial trading partnership which helped Germany’s war effort. Additionally, the neutral but infamous Swiss banks made Switzerland useful to the Nazis.
https://theflatbkny.com/europe/did-switzerland-help-germany-in-ww2/
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On the subject of exaggeration, that also applies to the Western interpretation of Hitler's Nazis:
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Adolf Hitler’s Armed Forces:
A Triumph for Diversity?
Veronica Clark
Triumph of diversity: This is precisely what characterized the German Armed Forces of World War II by the year 1945. While this may be difficult for many historians to accept, it is nevertheless an accurate summation of what happened in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Even though the Germans initiated their war with a racist doctrine in mind, one that sought to create a “New Order” for Europe, with Germany at the center and German elites at the top of the European political and racial hierarchy (a German version of the so-called “White man’s burden,” so to speak), the Germans nevertheless had to scrap this racial doctrine for one that promoted internationalism and tolerated multicultural and interethnic cooperation and intimate relations. Many Nazis were deeply affected by the non-Germans with whom they fought and worked. For example, Fritz Freitag ended up throwing Nazi doctrine to the wind, and instead focused on building a Ukrainian liberation army.
https://web.archive.org/web/20091129131618/http://inconvenienthistory.com/archive/2009/volume_1/number_3/adolf_hitlers_armed_forces.php
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As for the "good treatment" of foreign workers in Germany during WW2: Besides the two million killed and starved Sovjet prisoners of war another million was brought to death by slave labor with insufficient and horrible food. French and Dutch foreign workers fared better but not as well as the Germans. They were not free, had to collaborate or be starved and shot.
Noting that you are a Dutch electronics engineer (Philips? my father was best friends with Prof.Casimir) may I be permitted to explain how the "beneficial trading relationship" between Germany and Switzerland came to be: Hitler in 1940 threatened to invade Switzerland with the help of Mussolini. There was a detailed plan (Tannenbaum, its all on Wikipedia), and lists of Jews and anti-nazi personalities to liquidate were already ready. Because the 300'000-500'000 troops were not readily available this plan was postponed until the "final victory" and Switzerland - completely surrounded and dependent - was pressed into a trade deal which forced us to produce for Germany in exchange for coal and raw materials. This was highly official, it was known and not even ciritizised by the allies. Therefore we somehow survived and I thank my government, my general and the generation of my parents that they rescued my quarter-Jewish grandmother and avoided the fate of the Dutch nation (which besides had many collborators).
I worked for an electronics magazine that soon became international and with over 100,000 subscribers that also implied the same amount of potential critics of my designs - among those readers / critics, colleagues working for large companies (including Philips) as application engineers.
Humans could be described as too emotional mammals and one of the consequences is that war crimes, torture and similar behavior is widespread. As a rule a victor of a war writes the "cleaned up" history for the conquered areas (re WW2 all US + vassal states aka "allies").
Regarding Switzerland any other behavior would have been (more) harmful and compared to what "the allies" did it's a nonissue.
For instance the Dresden bombing of civilians:
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/dresden-bombing-the-cruelty-of-allied-forces-in-world-war-ii-f153e7e793f3
A more complete list, of US war crimes:
https://www.numberanalytics.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-us-war-crimes
Not really surprising, considering a quote from a "famous" POTUS:
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/665755
That mentality still exists, indicated by the "appreciation" for the US military:
https://www.sott.net/article/322436-Empire-Files-100-years-of-war-experimentation-using-American-soldiers-as-lab-rats
There we are on the same page. I am an avid reader of Chomsky.
But - as my father used to say - the real insult that an aggressor causes is to bring out the worst traits of human character in the people he aggressed. Churchill - a warmonger - only came into power after everything else had failed. If Britain bombed Dresden its the Germans who began (Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Blitz, Coventry). That the Germans did not bomb more is only due to the British and Polish pilots of the battle of Britain.
And - as big as the war crimes of the Allies might have been - they are insignificant in comparision of 6 mio Jews and the (always forgotten) 20 mio civilian Slavs killed by the most methodic and brutal techniques.
When thinking in a cause-effect chain, things are different. It's well documented that the colonization of the America's caused between 100-140 million deaths among the native peoples, the majority caused by the British invaders. That policy became US policy. As part of the global population back then, that might have been the largest holocaust on this planet yet.
The Bolshevik revolution was made and paid for by the US (with British support) and without that, hatred against Russia (and subsequent wars) could not have been waged.
Hitler too was supported by US banks, and corporations even during the war but without that support, the slaughter would have been impossible.
One of the links I posted mentioned that "Hitler is of 2 minds" because his army was one of the most diverse re ethnicity (including some 150,000 Jews too) yet he ran extermination camps.
The article doesn't mention the Balfour Declaration, promising "homeland for Jews". From that perspective, Hitlers extermination camps provided a perfect reason for that Jewish state and when reading Henry Makow's site, he has references for good relations between the British (agencies) and Hitler and even suggests, Hitler was a British agent. Probably worse, he shows that Trump, Putin and Netanyahu are members of same Babylonian-Jewish (death) cult, Chabad-Lubavitch.
With this recent confession the issue might be clear:
---
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who held office from 2006 to 2009, is accusing his country of committing war crimes in Gaza after leading Israeli cabinet members said that they want to starve Gaza. He wrote in an Israeli newspaper that Israel’s ongoing military campaign as “indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians.”
He said that he believes that a group of messianic right-winger extremists (Chabad-Lubavitch) are now leading the government and dictating to Netanyahu what should be done and how to do it.
https://needtoknow.news/2025/05/former-israeli-prime-minister-ehud-olmert-accuses-israeli-govt-of-committing-war-crimes-in-gaza/
Ugo, The review you cited of your book "Exterminations" contained the following statement: What are the things that make people vulnerable to being exterminated - and how to navigate it if you ever find yourself in that situation? The author's main point, that people vulnerable to extermination meet three criteria, is deeply important. Basically - 1) a subgroup that can be identified easily, 2) assets that can be confiscated 3) the lack of effective military defense." Ukraine and Taiwan, for example, are very likely to agree with all three items. How do you reconcile item 3 with the current post? What is the proper balance of thought and need in regard to the military defense of Europe when outsourcing to the US is not the option it used to be?
Well, point "1" is the key: "as long as you are a subgroup easily identifiable" you will eventually be exterminated. To avoid that, there are two possible strategies. One is that you cease to be a "subgroup" and you arm yourself to the teeth. But if you are a "subgroup" you have no chance to succeed unless you rely on another, larger group for protection. The other way is to merge with the leading group in such a way as not to be easily identifiable. Once, the Ukrainians saw themselves as Russians, and the Russians saw them as Russians who spoke a slightly different Russian dialect -- just like Texans in the US, so they were already "merged". But recently the Ukrainians used the other strategy -- much riskier. It doesn't seem to be working so well. But sometimes it works, see the case of Kosovo and Serbia. We'll see what happens when Texas secedes from the US. :-)
Texas won't secede, but will still talk about it... Texas is in an advantageous position.