How Switzerland Stayed Neutral
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10:50 The Harris Neutrality
hahah that's basically what Iz said when she watched this yesterday: "YOU ARE BEING SWITZERLAND RIGHT NOW"
@@johnnyharris Cool. Great video as always.
Just wanna comment here incase this explodes
@@cottontheeastercottontailr265 Just wanna reply for no reason because that's how I wanna be Neutral!
Naman Arya its the way
Germany and Switzerland: Lets build a bridge together.
Germany: Great! Job done.
Switzerland: We put explosives in our side.
Germany:wtf
@@AnkunShin
Germany would of been like: "of course you did."
is that ironic? or is that Karma coming onto Germany?
Remember the bridges Nazi Germans were determined to keep the A̶l̶l̶i̶e̶d̶ P̶o̶w̶e̶r̶s̶ U.S. from crossing to put Nazis at a disadvantage?
Germany: Ya we heard…we built spy surveillance into our side & slipped some into trucks/shoes of your workers for good measure.
Germany: Bro wtf I thought we were cool?
Switzerland: Sorry, force of habit
WWII : *is happening*
Switzerland : *bombs their own country*
Everyone else : he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit
Well not actually bombing and it was removed recently
Swiss: I have a belt and I'm not afraid to hang myself
USA bombed the city schaffhausen because they thought it's a part of germany. Actually it's a part from switzerland
@@philg956 AHHAHA I LIVE RIGHT NEXT YO THEIR
@@whyhello9649 ...er
Really the most outrageous thing about Switzerland is that they chose a square flag when everyone else use rectangles.
Vatican city and Nepal want to know your location.
Underrated comment. I’ll wait for it to be famous
lol thats hilarious
thats a big plus
@@ValtintimeGaming I see what you did there!
I have a friend who worked as UN intern, and she said if even the Swiss people have problem with your draft that means you have messed up real bad. And I can never forget.
Wdym draft? (Sorry)
@@roggiepogi211 I don't know some paperwork work or documents or something like that. I dont understand things like that 😂😓(No problem)
Draft? What does that mean?
Like when russia invaded ukraine and switzerland even banned russian banks?
@@dulguunjargal1199 pretty much. I worked on outphasing their servers :D No more IT infrastructure for russian banks in switzerland
I'm Swiss and there's actually a law that states that every person in Switzerland needs to have access to a bunker in case of an atomic attack. As a result of this almost all apartment buildings have their own bunkers in the basement.
well i know where to go when nuclear war break out in eu.. yet again i had home in where r no reason to nuke each other..i still had swiss visa...
The law has been changed since 2010 and not every building has to have one. They now suggest more common/public area bunkers and in places where currently they would not be able to find a place for 100% of the people living there. So youa re right nearly all apartment complex have a bunker, same for workplaces etc
True
My gran's appartment building had one, and also my aunt's. My house doesn't
But i'm sure Tschernobyl pushed this law too
Europe: wanna join the party?
Switzerland: We don't do that here.
Hahaha
I'm swiss
Please allow me put it a tiny bit more succinctly:
Europe: Wanna join the socialistic party based upon taking Germany's, Holland's and (previously) England's money and throwing it over the fence to finance the overblown social systems of Italy, France, Greece, Spain and Portugal?
Switzerland: We don't do that here. We take care of ourselves, excercise fiscal responsibility, we don't live beyond our means, and we expect everyone else to do the same.
We are the only country in the world that has direct democracy for ALL levels of government and thus our citizens excercise true freedom. If you EU members would follows these two principles, you'd all be doing fine. But you're not, so we won't.
@@christheswiss390 Funny stuff, really. Did you know however that Switzerland, just like Lichtenstein, Norway and Iceland, is part of the Common market? What does that mean? I'm glad you asked. Well, to be part of the Common market, you have to become an addressee of all the EU regulation concerning this very Common market (free movement of goods, service, people and capital) and you have to pay for the privilege to be part of the Common market, yet you have no representatives in the EU institutions and you have no voting rights, you can't change the EU regulation in any means.... eh, what was that about the ''we don't do that here'' stuff, again?
@@philipcooper8297 LoL, you mean the shengen treatry, that predates the EU???
ofcourse, that treatry is a founding part for the EU as it is known today. And yes Swiss seems to be crumbling a bit latly under Preasure fron EU, as shown by some changes/adoptions of the EU tax System.... (mostly becouse of multiple external international preasure about banking, taxheaven, etc)
I was born in Switzerland. My parent are originally from Italy. I thank my parent to give me the chance to grow up here. It's a beautiful place and everything works. We are free, we live a good life and we lack of nothing. Thank you #switzerland
Abiti in Ticino?
Enjoy your mandatory military service
But you pay $35 for a Value Meal at McDonalds! 😂😨🤦♂️🇨🇭
@@swansbear at least they dont pay thousands to just visit the doctor lol
@@swansbear actually ~14$
I'm Swiss and I can tell you that in Switzerland, there are many "clubs" to find bunkers. These clubs work like normal hiking clubs, but instead of hiking they just search for old bunkers and if they find one, they try to maintain it and go inside
Sounds cool. And being Swiss built they’re probably still structurally secure. Mostly. That sounds like fun.
Damn my lottery did not turn out good. I ended up being born in south asia
@@94D33MEast Pakistan??
@@cybersmite5002 Yeah Bangladesh
Switzerland the type to responded to every story with “wow that’s crazy”
LMFAO YES
The best response if you weren’t really listening to the story someone was telling you
I say that when i disagree with the person telling me the story. Like, if someone is telling me about something someone else did but I actually agree with the other person.
"that sounds hard, really hard"
Oh Germany’s invading you bro that’s sooo crazy *blows up every connection to the outside world* Aw man I’d come help but dang all my bridges n stuff are gone sorry man
*World War III Starts*
Switzerland: *Quietly puts all the TNT back in the bridges, roads, and borders*
They never took it out.
@@PhoebusApollo360 Are you telling me that their citizens drive over tons of TNT everyday and they don't even know about it?
And they say Americans are explosive happy.
@@PhoebusApollo360 Shhhh...
they are already prepared for WW3. no one is gonna invade a nuclear bomb site. TNT not needed only enough bunkers and tunnels to keep the country going underground
@@arnowisp6244 Oh we knew about it. It was a requirement for the engineer to do the maths on where to put how much explosives to blow it up effictively and savely.
I know it sounds strange to foreingers. But we just grow up knowing that's normal. I guess we trust our engineers.
So when Switzerland gets involved against Russia, you know its serious
the US forced us :(
@@uh_ke lies. switzerland has been wanting to do this lmao
nato puts a lot of pressure on switzerland suddenly it just made a small sanction and it is the russian people who take the damage, switzerland will do nothing else
More serious than Nazi Germany?
@@uh_ke Are you saying that the Swiss resisted Nazi Germany but could not resist the US? I guess that's saying smth about the US...
Switzerland is a great country and democratic to the roots, people vote for any decisions made. One of the best places to live in the world for the past 150 years. A safe place, a place with friendly and polite people all around, top landscapes for leisure activities, and with a very high life quality at all. Hope this will continue and Switzerland and the people can maintain this favorable status.
Except for the choice of staying 'neutral' because the US War mongers said so.
@@RedPilledDaddy Your point is a valid one but I doubt the Germans or Italians were very happy about it at the time either. Unfortunately the idiots you speak of are very real; they don’t represent all Americans but they are the least informed and the loudest.
@@RedPilledDaddy
triggered ruzzbot?
@@miliba am anti war
@@RedPilledDaddy sure you are
World: *has a war*
Switzerland: I just hope both teams have fun
😂😂😂
Underrated comment lmao.
Switzerland: who needs weapons?
more like
*im playing on both sides so i always win*
@@Naturtyp they do. Switzerland has a big gun culture and don't fuck around when it comes to military.
“Get off my lawn” - Switzerland
for some reason, that is the exact thing screaming inside my mind when the video goes to 3:29 lol
😂🤣🤣🤣Yes!👍🇨🇭💗
I wonder if this was a reference to Scott Morrison getting called out for stepping on some guy’s lawn during an interview
It is cold and uninviting so no problem. I'll not support the seed of le serpent.
Get off my lawn or I will blow my lawn up
I've always been jealous of just how gorgeous Switzerland is. If I lived there I would probably stay "neutral" too.
I visited Switzerland in college. It was the coolest and most beautiful place I've ever seen and I have a life-long dream to move there one day. The culture fits me perfectly too. Hopefully it will work out... some day.
I hope, it's very nice in Here : )
"I may be homeless, but I am not bunkerless"
- Random Swiss guy
only thing is, the swiss social system is so well built, it's almost impossible to become homeless unless you want to
@@arkt1s551 True story 😂
Come to think of it we actually do open bunkers to house homeless people...
True! I have a pretty massive bunker in my own house! Use it as storage room.
@@nate7790 homeless in Switzerland is a paradox!
You forgot one measurement. There is a saying: "Switzerland does not have an Army. Switzerland IS an Army". They have mandatory military service, and not a small one. Every male needs to go. And until you are 34, there are trainings every year. Yes you heard that right. So they got a shitton of reservists, that will need to fight, if they have to. But that is not the crazy part. Everyone that was in that mandatory service keeps all the Equipment. And until 2007(!), long after any higher Chace of war, EVERYONE kept their damn assault rifles including ammunition.
So in the more serious years, were there could have been a war... Most were able to instantly jump into their military uniforms at home, put their rifle on the back and go. Wich would have been of course mandatory.
Also, in todays times, being in the Swiss Army is propably a great Job, I guess. Usually Soldiers are payed well and in current times, most Jobs are riskier then the Swiss Army. They won't get into any conflicts world wide, they will not attack and most likely will not be attacked either.
Don't put too much hype into the reliability of a reserve component of a nation's military. They're shaky at best.
Good on them for no shootings, also Switzerland is pretty much Sparta.
@@alr6111 Normally this is true, but if you consider the swiss history and culture, you may find the exception here. I hope well never find out.
@@delta.11 In the US, I believe the equivalent are the National Guard stations, where reservists will go to receive weapons and instruction. I also believe under certain circumstances plans are in place to move equipment and aircraft if needed.
@@TanteEmmaaa Well in our history we were mostly farmers and farms were most of the time passed on to either the oldest or the youngest son ( most of the time there were 3 or more sons in total). So the other men in the Family usualy became mercanaries to fight in the many wars of medival europe.
When modern Firearms came up there was a kind of gun culture were we would organize in shooting clubs and have Shooting competitions with each other ( achieving the most points on 300m distance). This lead most Swiss people to be so skilled at firing rifles that in the first world war when the Kaiser thought about coming through switzerland through our reserve system we had about 500k to a million soldiers ready and the comanding general is said to have said " If you come and attack us, all we have to do is fire our rifle twice and we will have won".
In modern times this gun cultre is slowly but surely dying out sadly ( in my opinion ) many soldiers don't even want to keep their service weapon after training.
Wow this really got out of hand quickly sry for that long text
Another well made and informative video. Now I want go hiking in Switzerland. I have gone climbing Austria and it was awesome. Switzerland looks like fun. Thanks Johnny!
I was in Switzerland last year, beautiful country, very colourful, surprisingly warm.
To talk about the bunkers, my cousins live in this apartment building and there is a nuclear bunker in the building.
Switzerland: "I will be neutral"
World: "Doesn't work for us"
Switzerland [ominous]: "I wasn't asking"
I have never considered them to be, truly, neutral.
@@gwine9087 there are different perspectives to Switzerlands neutrality. In our schools we learn we are neutral I war but we will still try to make business with whomever we can. So we supply even now countries like the US with ammunition. So in a way we are but also not really. But you are completely right with what you also said.
@@thomasrothwell3300 Yeah, it‘s like we consider ourselves neutral as long as we sell the stuff to everyone and therefore treat them equally while making us less of a target.
@@gwine9087 True, you can only ever be truly neutral if you isolate yourself diplomatically, economically and also depending on the situation, geographically.
A fake neutral state created by the elite.
"Aggressively staying Neutral" will become my favorite combination of words
13:07 Yeah, this aged fast
@Shaurya Explores They picked a side in the current European war
You've missed a critical fact, the head of the Rhine river is in Switzerland and Switzerland threatened to poison all of Germany's water if they invaded.
Wow, I didn't know about this
what a power move
sauce?
Can't find anything about that on the internet tho...
@@user-gu8me4fn6v Try a library lol. Not all information is on the internet
Nazi Germany: "We could invade you at any moment we like."
The Swiss: "Can i offer you guys any CANNONS during this trying time?"
He won his bet
well it hard not to attack when their hold all your gold and money... and shit...
I've been poisoned by my constituents!
Can I offer you a egg for this trying time
"..and a bank account?"
Swiss neutrality is less “please don’t invade me” and more like “invade me, if you dare”
I was privileged to visit Switzerland in 2004. Stayed a week.... I also share your love of this amazing place
Very wealthy, living in mountains, good at digging and drilling, not concerned with the outside world? Is it just me, or are the Swiss basically the Dwarves from Lord of the Rings?
lol. hahah but I think we are. (for real man). we actually have a lot of these (children)stories about dwarfs living in our forests and in the mountains haha
With the difference that the dwarves never departed their people with different beliefes to nazi germany
The funny thing is that J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit". The story with Wood-Elves, Dwarves inside mountain mines and a dragon is based on a hiking trip threw Switzerland that Tolkien participated in.
In medieval Switzerland people actually believed that there live dwarves inside the mountains, elves in the deep forests and dragons inside mountain caves. But there are just hidden so this is why no one ever sees them.
The orcs as far as I know it are based on an irish legend though.
Teufer2 yup Orcs represent invaders from England. Orc is derived from an old world for “foreigner”
Mir sind nur bürger..... people are not the GOVERMENT
*WW3 Occurs*
Swiss: Look honey, the neighbors are fighting again
The World is at War with an evil Fascist dictator but Swissy decides not to fight to Fascism...Swissy stays neutral while the world burns. SHAME SHAME SHAME
@@The_Reality_Filter You are literally everywhere...
Who’s “honey”
@@The_Reality_Filter that your problem not our, deal with it yourself
@UpperClass Yes I am .
"The Swiss will probably continue to stay neutral". this didn't age well lmao
well they became one sided for first time in couple hundreds of years, putin really united whole europe
The ukraine war? They're still technically neutral
@@NetralFN Well its a complicated thing but Switzerland did join the EU with the sanctions against Russian Oligarchs etc. Which goes against neutrality. However it was in our best interest since the EU wanted to sanction us when at first we didn't join them sooo...
@@NetralFN Switzerland are militarily neutral and want peace. but they still have values and with putin there isn't much of a military threat against switcherland
@@Mati1268_ bro politics fuck switzerland there was no referendum
Thanks for this well done video.Can't believe how little I knew about Switzerland. Knew of their landscape, like they were into "doing neutral", famed for banks & watches,fantastic place to visit, recreate and so expensive.
Had absolutely no idea about how they secured themselves from being invaded & keeping 'doing neutral'. A real revelations the way that they had created such structures, really practical defences, ending up with all these tunnels and bunkers. The amazing notion of using gunpowder and explosives around their perimeter, including bridges or whatever.
Obviously it's smart and essential to establish any needed constructive terms to relate to other regional countries and powers. Including where required permitting required transit routes and even secure storage of valuables.In Switzerland's circumstances their terms of engagement with Germany, including Hitler were pragmatic and reasonable.
I'm swiss, it'as actually a thing that in switzerland, when you build a house either you build a nuke proof bunker in the basement or you have to pay a tax to sponsor community bunker and have a place in one. In case of danger everyone has a bed in a bunker. If you own a private one you most likely have a ton of wine and food in it as it is often used as a storage room :) Also about the big mountain bunkers I went to one recently transformed into a pretty cool escape game !
Do most people build the bunkers or pay tax ?
Did you do the "Quarantine" one in Vernayaz? I found it really interesting but also scary.
@@dominikparuzel4040 I think it's mandatory to either have a bunker or pay the tax. We have a bunker in our house
that is very cool
@@cyrillkuhn1309 I think he meant which option most people choose.
Switzerland is basically: "I have mountains and I'm not afraid to use them"
Do they grow enough food tho or do they have to import food?
@@user-uy1rg8td1v as far as I know, the Swiss' crop 70% of their food by themselves and 30% is imported
@@user-uy1rg8td1v it’s actually regulated by law that there always has to be enough of essential food products like flour, salt, sugar,… stored in big storages in order to feed the whole country for up to a year in case of emergencies like wars or crop failure
But if your enemy bombed all away your Villages and industrial factorys in the lowlands (where the most of the population lives) in the north you cant hide in the mountains but not for years.
@@stanvandersluis8486 that wasn't the plan, the plan was (as explained in the video) to make it just not worth it to invade.
And it worked.
I want a post apocalyptic story where the main characters get to Switzerland and find everything carrying on like normal there
I watched the Bunker video first. Now after watxhing this, I'm so happy for you Johnny, that you were able to take your hiking in the Swiss Alps bunker hunting trip. It certainly looked amazing! And now my wife and I really want to go take our own Swiss Alps bunker hike!! Thanks jbone
Its a direct democracy here in Switzerland. The people vote on literally everything. its a cash rich country and a really safe country but definitely not for extroverts.
I'm an introvert, where can I sign up?!
I would love the snow as well!
Yes like the law asking enterprises to regulate what they do outside switzerland, they vote for a yes however it's a no....hahaha....democracy...or hipocresy ????
@@juneauxmader9893 Well, there goes my luck XD
If only I had the guts tbh, idk XD
@@juneauxmader9893 HEY! Don't forget the swiss "romand" , the swiss that speak French ...no need to learn German ;)
Oooh you had me at the last sentence , sign me up
Can we pause for a moment and appreciate how much effort Johnny has put in for this video?
hahah thank you. yes this one was a LOT of time in the animations.
Not only in this one, in all of them! Great work!
So true..
Nope
@@johnnyharris hey johnny have u quit VOX? bcoz we rnt seeing u there
@Johnny Harris - What are your thoughts about Switzerland breaking their neutrality for the first time in over a century to actually sanction Russian assets and side with the EU and the allies?
Why is this so far down
It‘s a shame!! I just don‘t understand why the world sanctions russia because of a war, but when USA bombs middle eastern countries and still is bombing Somalia there is no problem… double standards!
Swiss here. Times have changed. Also, Switzerland badly needs a new trade agreement with the EU. Also, the Swiss government acknowledged that an attack on Ukraine undercuts the security of whole Europe, and thus, Switzerland itself.
I like this much more than the neutral Swiss stance during South Africa's Apartheid.
@@samsandul397 it’s very difficult to sanction America. They’re pretty self sufficient in some respects.
I hope they do sanction america.
Just to clarify action have been take in line with the norm stated by the united Nation and EU by which we were bounded. In other words we follow the law and acted once the breaking of international law by Russia has been confirmed. Our neutrality you have to imagine that it works by the fact that we will not guarantee the indipendente of any nation, we will not accept the guarantee of our nation by other country and our government will not use his executive power against other nation in any circumstances if not directly attacked. This doesn’t mean we will not help Ukraine but just we will do it diplomatically and with humanitarian mean not militarily and we will send to f*** off Russia our way.
And now its all changed!! I love your work, keep it up and Hello from Scotland.
There’s a story about a Swiss general in ww1 being asked by a German general what he would do if he invaded with 50000 men. The Swiss army at the time had 20000-25000 soldiers (I don’t remember), but were incredible marksman. The Swiss general said, “than we will shoot twice and go home”
That general's name was ulrich wille.
@@virajaher1282 he has a big willie
fucking legend.
a wise and simple man, i like him ^^
What a legend!
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I’m Swiss, the hospital my mom works at has an underground bunker hospital right below it filled with 40s equipment it could remain active in case of an invasion. Now it’s more of a novelty since the equipment is pretty outdated.
aggressive neutrality
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So sind wir halt
Aggressive? More like - if the price is right - anything goes. Friend or foe, no problem. We are neutral. We sell to you but also to your enemies. Because we do not discriminate, we are NEUTRAL - we - the Swiss.
Its not agressive neutrality. If there was a country with passive neutrality, they were already Belgiumed before they can declare it. Such is how the cruel world works.
I actually was shocked when I found out not every household outside of Switzerland has a bunker, growing up there it was just normal to use your bunker as storage lol
We have them in Singapore.
@Abе Pat yes, it think there is (or was) a law that there has to be enough bunkers for every person in switzerland. And if there isnˋt and you want to build a house you have to build a bunker in it.
Personally I think it is odd not to have enough bunkers, like if war breaks out unlucky for you but you will die.
@@supportgap7748 yep they are still there. The Highschool I went to has a large one including a military hospital.
Here in Israel we have them to
@@sleepworthy8349 Israel is like a country wide fortress lol
This totally aged well
like milk Lo
@@Fa397bio ?
thanks for this very clear video !
Invading Army: Wait a minute. Where are your defenses at the border?
Switzerland: You fool! Our defense is the border.
Very good point you make. The reality is actually very sad. During WWII, Switzerland being exposed to Germany, the Swiss military ordered 800 K men to retreat into the mountains and dig in.
Their wives and their children, their families, their mothers, and fathers - they were left in their villages and cities. Totally unprotected!! Glory for the Vaterland.
@@bertsole7278 les soldats allemands n'étaient pas réputés pour violer les femmes et assassiner les enfants, au contraires des alliés américains anglais et russes qui se distinguaient dans toute leurs saloperies...
@@raphaelglauser3508 Vous en avez encore beaucoup des conneries comme ça? Demandez aux russes ce qu'ils pensent du comportement des soldats allemands sur le front de l'est!
@@adriant9840 Both are French, but I think different dialects.
François Badoux says this (again G-translate): Do you still have a lot of bullshit like that? Ask the Russians what they think of the behavior of German soldiers on the Eastern Front!
Random dictator: “I declare war on Switzerland!”
Switzerland: “No.”
But I do confess we were a bit worried about Gaddafi.
Had some newsarticles but not for long. 🙃
Can’t fight anybody if there’s nobody to fight!
The dictator won't invade their bankers.....
@@Baerli92 Also, Afghanistan could be a neutral country if it so wanted. The world's largest superpowers have failed there.
@@waqasahmed939 sure the superpowers have failed afghanistan, i am with you in that.
but my commentar was about gaddafi who was pissed off bc swiss took in some of his familys servants who run away on a diplomatic visit. and maybe some other reasons.
This video is so fantastic and interesting. Thanks
Thank You Johnny!! I consider myself a ww2 geek but did not know of the Swiss bunkers within the alps!
Cheers!
In July 2012 the train to Bern was late, I remember it as 5-6 minutes.
Very traumatic. People was crying
For real?
@@FuJiKi.
Yes the train was late.
And we had a connecting train with only 10 minutes between them.
We and everyone else stood at the doors in fight mode and as soon as the doors open it was a mad run panic screaming to get people to move out of the way.
You can guess how it is for us to be in a foreign country where delays of more than 10 minutes are just part of the journey ;'D
@@joelruegger2149 you are welcome to visit Sweden.
Your life will never be the same again.
"SJ" can be late, but "Snälltåget" is in a different league.
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Switzerland is the Europe version of Home Alone
Forever alone is the winner
Yea other people are
trouble most of the time..much happier to be alone
@@aryan-oh5qm you think I’m Muslim?
AHAHAHHAHAHAHH
@@peppersgone5044 everyone is human.
All I needed to see great short my dude otw to watch it lol
Brilliant and totally watchable as always
Pacifist: War is so evil. I hate all these walls, and bombs and cannons. We should just be neutral like the Swiss.
Switzerland: Sounds great.
Pacifist: So how do we do it.
Switzerland: Natural walls, and bombs, and cannons.
I am so sorry you do not live in a perfect world sweerhart
Well that's the thing about pacifism. All you need is one psychopath in a world full of pacifists and he can take over the world. Being a pacifist and a realist at the same time is hard.
*natural cannons*
Being neutral is not about friendship and peace. It's about understanding and abusing powerstructures to keep the fight away from you.
This sounds a lot like when in the movie Ant-Man, Hank Pym talks Scott Lang into breaking into the Avengers compound to get a component. Don't know if you knew about that from before...
fun fact: every school here has a basement which is also a bunker
I can confirm
It was pretty normal to me
I can also confirm✅
My school ISB international school of Bern does not
@@Nokyyyyy Our school too.
@@brebrakin6849 that's not a school, just some institution for the rich.
One interesting fact about destroying the access points like bridges, dams or tunnels. They tracked down the engineers who built those structures in the first place and charged them with coming up with the fastest most thorough way to destroy their own work.
You should make a video "What made Switzerland break their everlasting neutrality?" 🤣🤣
"The Swiss like being neutral"
those are big words coming from a country where the flag looks like a proton
Or in some places it is the look for emergency support
PatrickAndFriendsPRO the flag is neutral (same length into all directions)
is this considered the 'bad mouthing the swiss' comment?
@@user-ri3tl9qs6p That's because the red cross was built in switzerland and the symbol was made in inspiration of swiss neutrality
It’s square and can be hung any way round. Pretty damn smart.
I remember running around in the forest as a kid in Switzerland. We always found bunkers and long lines of giant concrete blocks to block out tanks (like several kilometers long). Most of this stuff was abandoned and we didn't really understand what it was for, made a great playground tho
wow! that's so cool to hear. thanks for sharing
@@johnnyharris Yeah so if you go to the French speaking region (Suisse Romande), along the Swiss side of the lake between Geneva and Lausanne there are these lines of "Toblorone" Tank Traps that stretch all the way from the lakeside into the mountains. Some of the bunkers disguised as houses in the video actually hid cannons so that tanks that tried to go over the traps, exposing their underside (where there was little armor) would get shot. You can hike all the way along them.
Also: During WWII the Swiss Air Force shot and forced down a lot of planes (both US and German) infringing on their airspace. The US accidentally bombed Schauffausen and a couple of other cities while Germany tried to sabotage Swiss airfields after some of their planes were shot down but failed. Minor details but it says a lot about the parties involved.
Totally! It was just a way of growing up. There was always a house around the edge of the village with windows painted on it, and a number of bunkers that were fun to explore. A lot of stuff is still very visible, (although I lived very close to the German border, so there's a lot more stuff there). Bunker hunting is a+ fun.
In Kent, England, along the marshes of the Medway (opening to the Thames River), as a Kid there were ruins from medieval castles, 19th Century forts with old barracks and WW2 military installations that had all been abandoned. They were a lot of fun to play in. There was one old WW2 American military base of some kind without a roof in the woods half below street level. Just concrete walls and trees growing up in the middle of it. We called it the maze because it ran all through the woods. We would run along the walls and jump from wall to wall and jump off. I was 11 before I was big enough to run up the wall and climb up. Lot's of scraped knees and a few broken bones between all the kids playing there.
In the 80's there wasn't money and the government had left a lot of old equipment lying around. Anti-aircraft guns (obviously not working), craters from bombs in the woods, and 19th century (Napoleonic wars?) cannons off their wheels lying on the floor. It was a playground but definitely pushed toward war games.
Hey there SkizzlePiano! So cool to hear that you played around those huge concrete blocks! We lived in Zug throughout the 90’s up until 2005. My Swiss husband told me that the concrete blocks were being removed, but apparently there are still quite a few still in existence. Btw, I’m a pianist and vocalist as well.
"Neutral" in the biggest quotes. I think when you're putting children's teeth in a bank vault you're more than a little involved.
Man this video really contextualizes the recent news about Switzerland sanctioning Russia.
They even drilled holes in their cheese!
Lol
Good one
This actually made me laugh
Hahahahahah
Underrated comment..hahahahahhaa
Switzerland is the introverted, quiet kid and they’re surrounded with all these extroverted popular kids.
The Introverted kid that hates muslims.... unfortunatly
@@jonathanerhard8353 Isolation is blinding some of us. But if you go to international towns, people are quite tolerant. And the racist political groups in the country, while still being the most popular overall, are losing ground each votation. Probably due to internet and the end of uninformed people.
@@mitoo4880 that's great to hear :) lets hope the trend continues
@@mitoo4880 Framing is the tool from racists.
Ur a racist?
@@Wankdorf183 Those are just sophism you're using. Language abuses. You say you extract truth from language, when you're really just pushing its limit to your advantage. I bet you know inside that what you're doing is bullshit.
Your research on topics are quite impressive.... love from india.... huge fan of you.... thank you
I saw the short came and loved the video it was great
I remember when they dissmantled the bomb in the bridge in my town. I was a kid and didn't know why tf there was a bomb in the bridge
Probably need zink or an electric charge to set it off so it was safe.
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Switzerland is like the quiet kid. He won't show up to any parties but that doesn't mean you should mess around with him.
The World is at War with an evil Fascist dictator but Swissy decides not to fight to Fascism...Swissy stays neutral while the world burns. SHAME SHAME SHAME
@@The_Reality_Filter they were completely surrounded by Germany and Italy, wtf do you expect them to do? it was either stay neutral or die. aligning with the Allies in any way would have gotten them killed
@@DistantFungus20 that's some great excuses you're making for the Fascist Friendly Swiss.
@@The_Reality_Filter triggered
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7:30 i chilll on this Bunker every summer
im watching this for school and find it kinda funny cause i go to school on a mountain and my friends and i like to walk around in the forest and we come across so many bunkers hahah
so i live in switzerland all my live and until this video i haven't realised how many bunkers we had. i even just realised during this video that my laundrey room is a bunker :)
Ours is currently used as a wine storage chamber. 😅
Mine is used as a electronic room or storing things that needs darkness but not in fridge like cheese, mostly from Nepal(a mountainous country like switzerland with great cheeses).
I keep my slaves in the bunker
@@ragunathsubramaniam8268 Dude!😆 Like servant maid or legit slaves?
@@Batman-jc8to yeah I wish we could use our mountains like Switzerland , nepal needs to learn to drill the mountains
I am Swiss and it's pretty funny that you just uploaded this video, because just earlier today we had the topic of Switzerland during WW2 in college.
It's actually a pretty complex topic and Swiss people to this day don't completely agree on why they haven't been attacked by Hitler. Some strongly believe that it was the "strong" Swiss military and the "Réduit"-strategy in the alps, that saved them. Others say it was the cooperation with Nazi Germany. Historians say that both of it was needed and that another important reason was, that Germany had a hard time in Russia. Germany could have easily invaded Switzerland, but it would have cost them too many resources, which Germany just couldn't afford to lose, because of their Russia expedition had bad luck. There are actually documents of Nazi officials stating that it would be possible to invade Switzerland, but also really tricky.
The cooperation of Switzerland also proofed useful to the Germans. As a part of the contract with Germany, Switzerland had to deliver resources (weapons and other) on credit, which Germany didn't need to pay upfront. Additionally Germany could sell their gold to the Swiss National Bank in exchange for foreign currencies without proofing its origin. This way they then sold gold they had stolen from countries they invaded (also some stolen gold from jews, but not that much). In return Switzerland could continue to trade food and coal, which they really needed. Germany also allowed a corridor to trade with the allies.
Summing up, the continuing Swiss independence and neutrality was a result of many different factors. The importance of the different factors is even today between historians still under debate.
As always, the reality isn't black and white but wears all the shades of grey (no references to the porn).
I mean the reason why is easy. Why would have Hitler wanting to invade a well organize small country? Too much of effort if you want to go far..
I can give a much more simple explanation for "why they haven't been attacked by Hitler".....
he's dead
This was really interesting, thanks for the insight :)
It's a fallacy to believe that the national socialists wanted warfare against anyone. That's absurd.
The national socialists Germans didn't want war.
Hitler wrote his political testament, one day before committing suicide, he stated that it is untrue that I or anybody else in germany wanted war.
You can look it up
My favourite TH-cam channel.. Just love the way you explain.... Long way to go....✨🤞
I have Swiss alpenflage overalls, and they're my favorite pants.
It johnny at any Point of time, decides to be a world history teacher, I am so gonna try to attend all his classes. 😊
He is and you did.
@@PhilipDosa hahah I was thinking the same thing!
Meanwhile checkout crashcourse by John Green. He's pretty good!
If I am a history teacher, I’d make all my students watch his vids and do essays on their thoughts about these topics. Kudos!
So true 😂
not anymore 😭
lol
12:30 that is a great ad right there
Imagine if this was in history class then history wouldn’t suck so much
The problem is always the stupid assignments after you learn cool things like this but then here you go do a 2 page sa on bla bla bla
@@b3n_ketchup586 absolutely
Nah the problem it that it would take so much time to learn something so small
Yes history was very interesting
I would enjoy it
rest of the world: Where is the nazi gold?
Swiss banks: ... No idea
Likely sold off to make up for the costs of WW2 neutrality
@Yaruu Salamander sooo you don't know where the nazi gold is then?
yes, more exactly the Bank for international settlements which is based in Basel Switzerland. They are the Bank of all national Banks around the world...That's Tuff
The gold was split between US, France, England .
10:45 aaaand here we are :-)
Europe: *Literally on fire*
Switzerland: This is fine.
Would love a small scale Swiss mountain bunker as a music mixing room!
About the bunkers in homes: I am a civil engineer in Switzerland and already have designed several of these bunkers. They aren't mandatory for private construction but are heavily subsidized. Since people want to build basements for storage anyway it is common practice to have bunkers built in private homes. During peace-time they are used for storage but in case of a civil war they are to be emptied in order to be equipped with everything necessary to be used for their intended purpose. The time estimate between the notification to empty your compartment and the completion of the
repurposing of the bunkers in the whole country is about 2-3 weeks. Which is kind of a joke considering the advance warning in case of a nuclear attack are only a couple of hours at best.
I read that we have to pay a tax though if we don't have a shelter in our house. Is that correct?
@@trekadouble757 Yes, more or less. Buildings with more than 38 rooms require the provision of enough space in a bunker for all the inhabitants of the building. If you don't want to build it yourself, you have an obligation to pay a compensation (a single payment of about 500 $ per person I think) to the state who will provide room in their shelters. So: for small and medium houses there is not even an obligation to compensate missing bunkers. For large residential buildings there is. In any case: Building the bunker itself is not mandatory.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Switzerland’s mandatory military service and how they can raise an army of 800,000 almost instantly
Doesn't fit the agenda
@@IgnasV What on earth are you talking about? It fits the narrative perfectly
@@IgnasV What... agenda??
Doesn't fit the leftist communist agenda lol
They could probably mobilize the entire population to take pot shots and taliban style tactics.
Switzerland is so beautiful was able to visit when i lived in Holland.
So many places to sneak across the French border. Look at the area around Nyon and Geneva. Love Switzerland, wish I could afford to live there.
Swiss bridgebuilder: "dont trip on that wire!!!"
German bridge builder:"calm down i can look after myself"
Swiss bridge builder:" no but this is the fuse wire for the shitload of explosives we packed here in case you want to invade us"
@Aboorijal they where the bankers for all sides. define neutral. Also Hitler had his money in germany, but yes many wealthy germans put their money in a swiss bank to save their wealth from russians. it was not a suprise for many germans to lose the war.
@Aboorijal hahaha...you think the wealthy from european allies didnt stack their cash in switzerland? what if i told you they still do? yes they also sold material to the germans. the oerlikon anti air gun and ammo per example was sold to both sides. also diplomacy could not be cancelled with the germans as they where surounded by them and switzerland needed german coal for energy. funny still how you think you can lecture me in the history of my home. also it is very easy to judge from the outside when not being affected by the consequences. still the swiss granted asylum for the french army, jews and political enemies from the left. but go on...
German Builder: No bro thats the electrical wire for our surveillance system install…u weren’t spose to know bout it
It's not really strange that they would trade mostly with the Axis powers when they are land locked and surrounded by Axis powers.
Sell them weapons
Reminds me of why some ruling party MPs in my country previously called some opposition MPs hypocrites for not expressing their views over various social issues being debated; because the former regards that as a way for the latter to remain friendly with people on both sides of the debate & gain what seems to be 'unfair' advanage (like having one's cake & eating it too). When it comes to diplomatic/inter-country relations however I figure that governments might find it easier to justify such neutral behaviour though, on the grounds that each government is looking out for the best for their own people?
How could they manage to trade if they have bombed their roads and bridges??
@@ahmeddabboussi7370
If the only trading partner invades, does that even matter?
That’s called distance decay.
This aged well
Switzerland is that one kid who put mines around his house on a mountain, while constantly aiming cannons and artillery at their garage.
I naively thought Switzerland wanted to stay neutral and everybody was like OK we'll allow it. I had no idea they worked so hard to ensure that neutrality
I thought too for some weird reason, probably because Swiss neutrality is not really the center of focus when talking about ww2. But this explanation makes way more sense
We didn't decide on our own. First it was enforced back in the early 16th century. That more or less worked, but there were multiple treaties like the Treaty of Westphalia 1648, the Treaty of Paris 1815 that recognized and obligated us simultaneously to Neutrality. We haven't been part in a war since 1815.
Especially 1815 is very relevant, since the UK, France and Prussia ratified that treaty of Neutrality. The very same Nations that would wage 2 World Wars a century later and are to this day cursing and mocking us for our Neutrality.
We simply recognized that neutrality is best for the Swiss population and proceeded to defend it with force if we have to.
@@Reflox1 Philosophically speaking, it does raises the question though how someone can ethically choose to be neutral while 'next door' such atrocities take place? Setting aside that the actual Swiss government, banking system and corporate branches favoured the Nazis (so long for the 'neutrality' myth I'm afraid). Survival instinct kicks in in those situations, fair enough. Does it make it ethical on a personal level? Sitting back and watch? Not sure about it. Other countries chose to stand up (for whatever circumstantial reasons or not) and resist. They paid it in blood, but they have history's respect for it. Not sure that Switzerland has that either.
@@LingerVV The industry favored the Axis because they were the only viable trading partners and because it was imposed on us to some extent by Nazi Germany. Look at a map after the fall of France and tell me how we should have been able to export goods to the Allies or import from them. We're a landlocked nation of the size of a single state of Germany. Do you actually believe we should have martyred our people for the perceived morally right thing? Throw lives away with no hope of achieving anything just for the sake of it?
If you actually believe this, then I hope you never hold any kind of office or power.
Swiss had a power move: I guess it wasn’t the explosives, weaponry but their banking. The Nazis preferred to bank with them so they stayed neutral while the allies didn’t want to mess with em and add more to their problems. They made sure that both parties in a war would have no profit attacking them. That’s a real power move I guess
Swiss banking became big after WW2
Nazis didn't really preferred to trade with Switzerland, but it was their only chance to sold gold for money. The swiss banks bought a lot of gold from the Nazis, and they kept it until they could. That gold was obviously taken from the gold reserves of the conquered States and from all the minority (mostly from the jewish people) that they kidnapped and killed.
Until the 90's nobody in Switzerland ever talked about it, the main reason for being left neutral was thought to be the defense plan, but in reality was all the deals and agreements that the Nazis made with the Swiss government. In the 90's these dirty clothes where found beacause the relatives of the Jews that were killed during the Holocaust tried to retake the gold and the goods that were taken from them, the problem was the swiss banking secret policy. In fact to obtain all their money and gold the relatives musted prove the death of their dead relative with a death certificate, that obviously nobody could have beacuse the Nazis treated and killed them as they were worse than animals. This brought the Swiss parliament to vote for a commission of independet experts in 1996 (if I'm not wrong) to better understand the role of Switzerland during ww2. The CIE (commission of independt experts) was given access to the Federal Archive and to all the classified documents. In 2002 the CIE released the final report (600 pages), known as the Bergier's Report (I don't know if it's a correct translation, in italian is called Rapporto Bergier, after the name of the commission's chief ). The final report is a shorter version of all the reports that the CIE wrote, 25 studies and 12'000 pages over 5 years of research, and contains graphics and classified documents from the Federal Archive. In the report is investigated the role of Switzerland during ww2, all the National policies, the military orders, the border policies and the situation of the refugees, the Jews, the gypsies, the minority that tried to enter Switzerland for protection, all the federal expulsion programs from the country and many other things were investigated in this moumental historic work. A lot of swiss people didn't like what they found out, everybody was used to belive that the reason for their luck was their mentality, their small but well organized and brave army, they maybe knew that they traded with the Nazis but they didn't know how much in reality those trades and agreements made with them were the real reason behind their success to avoid the war. To this day most of the swiss people ignore these things, because nobody wants to think that the swiss government made such horrible agreements to keep their population safe, nobody really teaches these arguments during school, just from few years those things are part of the teaching program of high school.
History is always a delicate thing, everybody thinks to know everything but in reality know so little about all the arguments and the parties involved. Memory and history is often time confused with each other, but to know the truth without involving feelings is truly complicated.
WW2 was and still remain a dark and heavy part of history, in that time nobody really won anything, all the parties involved committed crimes against humanity, from the Nazis to the Allies, everybody included (of course the victims were victims). Since history is written by the victors and the humans need a distincted division between bad and good, the Nazis (by that I mean the germans) became the absolute evil, and the Allies the absolute good. But Switzerland was in the middle, not really in the good side nor in the bad side, but since they didn't commited personally the crimes, Switzerland's history was written between the lines of the good side and the bad side was simply ignored.
(for anybody information, I'm swiss so if it doesn't seems all correct or european centered it's beacause I live in Switzerland, Europe)
@@alerossi8444 🤯 mind-blowing piece of information.
@@alerossi8444 i just want to thank you the time you took to write this.
@@alerossi8444 A very informative comment.
Thank you for writing, I would sugest you to edit the paragraph and make it look it more spaced out because when someone see the comment it becomes difficult to read and follow.
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3:38 the wooden bridge is the longest covered bridge in Europe, and happens to be in the Village I was born in :)
I to
the antisocial dude whos chill with everyone but doesnt want to hang out
Ha! That's exactly me. Funny I'm swiss too.
Somebody trying to invade your personal space?
Bomb all the doors in your house, and the stairs to the 2nd floor, and while they try climbing to your room, you have enough time to fortify your room and soundproof it
I'm that guy as well
Jimmy Wijaya why are you holding an entire country responsible for the ignorance their dead ancestors did?
Jimmy Wijaya would you like to be held responsible for shit ur grandparents did?
Wo sind mini schwizer?🇨🇭🇨🇭
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hallo!!!
Bärn Baby
Zürcher oberland
hoi us schaffhuuse... det wo d brugge und d strasse gsprengt worde wäred xD
thats so amazing
Looks beautiful there.
He forgot the mention that we have invented the Swiss-German language, which is the equivalent of an atomic bomb for your ears.
Heil die Schweiz!
Haha, würdi jetzt nöd so säge
@nuthurdu Pain.
immer die ammis i schwörs euch aber nit ohni grund bini stolze schwizzer richtig so gsi findi geil wiemers gmacht händ und wenn krieg chunnt wärde paar brückli ind luft gjagt und mir chilles ind bärge
Never heard of it but this makes me laugh 😅
If you’ve ever had a hard time understanding chaotic neutral, look no further than Switzerland.
"valuing personal freedom above all else"
yep, sounds about right
Until you learn that the fuckers trade weapons and tanks like shit
@@hendrikherbst4936 lol u clearly dont understand. thats called neutrality.
@GoodSirChristof "chaotic" does not per se mean "disorganized" / "does not have a plan", it is more an Outlook on life
@@hendrikherbst4936 you don’t understand chaotic neutral.