How Switzerland Managed to Remain Neutral with WWI and WWII Raging Around Them

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The tiny mountainous country of Switzerland has been in a state of “perpetual neutrality” since the major European powers of the time declared it as such during the Congress of Vienna after the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815.

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