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War on all sides

Swiss soldiers mobilised at the borders during World War I Wikimedia Commons

Podcast 10.4.14

Spies, smugglers and a forever changed population – a look inside neutral Switzerland during the two World Wars, which started 75 and 100 years ago.

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