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Switzerland and South Africa 1948-1994
While other states imposed economic sanctions on the apartheid regime of South Africa, Swiss authorities long adhered to the position that South Africa is a state like any other. Swiss big business corporations saw an attractive trade partner in South Africa; in part, they also profited from the boycotts of others. Additionally, some political forces sympathised openly with the regime in Pretoria. Encouraged by the debate concerning Swiss policy and activity during the Second World War, in 1997 the order was given to initiate a historical study of Swiss behaviour towards the apartheid regime. Thus this report, commissioned by the Swiss parliament and the Federal Council, and passed over to t...
The Swiss and the Nazis
The award-winning author of Target Switzerland uses “a wide breadth of research to attempt to answer why Switzerland escaped the Nazi onslaught” (Daly History Blog). While surrounded by the Axis powers in World War II, Switzerland remained democratic and, unlike most of Europe, never succumbed to the siren songs and threats of the Nazi goliath. This book tells the story with emphasis on two voices rarely heard. One voice is that of scores of Swiss who lived in those dark years, told through oral history. They mobilized to defend the country, labored on the farms, and helped refugees. The other voice is that of Nazi Intelligence, those who spied on the Swiss and planned subversion and inv...
Embroiled
Apartheid posed profound challenges to the conceptions of humanity and development that dominated the world stage after World War II. Embroiled analyzes the manner in which international religious organizations dealt with the formulation and implementation of apartheid. The book studies this through an examination of the Swiss Mission in South Africa (SMSA), an institution that acted in South Africa, Switzerland, and the international ecumenical community. As a socially embedded institution, the SMSA mirrored divisions present within Swiss and South African societies on the issue of apartheid. *** Embroiled brings out the complex, even turbulent, nature of a missionary society: at once political intermediary, spiritual guide and non-government organisation. Caught between different communities and discrete continents, missionaries discussed and debated their role in South Africa and attempted, however fitfully, to respond to the changes that swept through the country, particularly as opposing nationalisms fought to seize hold of it. ~ From the Preface (Series: Schweizerische Afrikastudien - Etudes africaines suisses - Vol. 9)
Personenregister (Verfasser und Biographien )
In der 1958 gegründeten Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Zeitungsforschung erscheinen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu den Kernthemen des Instituts, der Entwicklung der Printmedien und des Journalismus. Die Beiträge greifen historische und aktuelle medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftliche Themen und Fragestellungen auf. Die Reihe umfasst Monographien und Sammelbände sowie Nachschlagewerke, Biografien und Textdokumentationen.
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Minister Hans Frölicher
Kein Schweizer Diplomat ist so umstritten wie Hans Frölicher. Als Gesandter in Berlin hatte er während des Dritten Reiches die schwierigste diplomatische Mission zu erfüllen, die der Bundesrat je zu vergeben hatte. Die Schweiz rüstete sich mit grosser Entschlossenheit zum Widerstand. Frölichers Aufgabe bestand jedoch darin, mit dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland freundliche Beziehungen zu pflegen. Gerade weil der Bundesrat ihm einen geschmeidigen Umgang mit den Nazi-Grössen zutraute, hatte er ihn auf diesen Posten berufen. Frölicher wurde nach dem Krieg für seine Amtsführung heftig kritisiert, namentlich von Edgar Bonjour. Paul Widmer, selber Diplomat, setzt sich in dieser ersten Frölicher-Biografie gründlich mit der schwierigen Rolle auseinander, in der sich ein Diplomat auf Posten in einem totalitären Staat befindet. Anpassung und Widerstand: Wie hat Frölicher dieses Problem gelöst? Paul Widmer gibt darauf eine differenzierte und klare Antwort.
