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Comment by panick21_ | Hacker News Reader

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On the internet, anytime Switzerland is mentioned that is brought up. For some reason its brought up more then what literally any other country did during that time. This includes other neutral who worked more with the Nazis, and even Germany and German allies. Anytime Switzerland is mentioned on reddit or here people bring this up. This is kind of baffling to me, as in monetary terms it is really not a relevant factor.

The only explanation I have for this phenomenon is that this was in the news media a lot in the 90s, but so many other things were in the news more, but this thing seems to have entrained itself as the first thing that comes to mind when mentioning Switzerland.

>The only explanation I have for this phenomenon is that this was in the news media a lot in the 90s

With the 90s you mean the case of Christoph Meili? Maybe it's because it's a spectacular case and that makes it brought up more.

Basically the 'World Jewish Congress lawsuit against Swiss banks', involved the everything from President of the US, congress and so on.

Meili was part of it, it basically goes from 1995 to 1998.

It would be nice if you explained what you're talking about, rather than just assuming everybody knows. Whatever it is, you come off as someone "protesting too much" by taking a simple reference to WWII as being an attack on Switzerland. Apparently over some sort of alleged Nazi collaboration? That's kind of a stretch.

For what it's worth, I took them to mean "Did not suffer significant population losses, widespread physical devastation, and exorbitant military expenditures during WWII, and so found themselves in a much stronger economic position than all the other major European countries in the decades that followed". I don't understand why you seem to have a different interpretation, especially one that you yourself describe as "baffling" and "not relevant" to the question of national wealth.

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