Fighting For Peace | The Pascal Najadi Series | Episode 1 (WiM223)
The "What is Money?" Show
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Is That What You Want?
During the Second World War, Switzerland had no army to defend its land. It was in perspective terms, it was one horse and a few cannons. And facing the German war machine that was surrounding us from the north and from the south with Mussolini in Italy. My great-granduncle took the initiative and went to the north of our border to negotiate with Mr. Hitler personally. He asked him what do you want? What do you want from us? We were poor. At that time, banking, Swiss banking was not yet developed. But we said, armed-de-de-developed, defensive army. Unneutral. This saved our country from being completely overrun by the Nazis.
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