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Bombings of Switzerland in World War II : ウィキペディア英語版 | Bombings of Switzerland in World War II
Bombings of Switzerland in World War II consisted of initially sporadic bombing events that became more frequent during the later stage of World War II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Diplomacy of Apology )〕 Switzerland was a neutral country during World War II, but adjacent to and at times completely surrounded by Axis countries. On several occasions, Allied bombing raids hit targets in Switzerland resulting in fatalities and property damage. Such events led to diplomatic exchanges. While Allied forces explained the causes of violations as navigation errors, equipment failure, weather conditions, and pilots’ errors, in Switzerland fear was expressed that some neutrality violations were intended to exert pressure on the country to end its economic cooperation with Nazi Germany.〔 In addition to bombing raids, air attacks by individual fighter planes strafed Swiss targets toward the end of the war. ==Allied use of Swiss air space== During World War II, Swiss air space was violated by both sides. The Swiss Air Force was not in a position in terms of size of force or modern equipment to defend Swiss air space effectively. Thus, during the war, over 7,000 siren alarms were initiated in Switzerland.〔(Swiss History, World War II (German) )〕 Some Allied bombers took advantage of this situation by using Swiss air space as a safer route than enemy air space on their bombing runs to and from targets in Germany, but more often, bombers in distress preferred to descend to neutral Switzerland for asylum rather than in German territory. As a result, Switzerland ultimately interned 1,700 American airmen. From 1941 to 1942, allied bombers very rarely flew over Switzerland, because the Swiss authorities, under German pressure, prescribed black-outs in order to complicate navigation for the U.S. and British air crews. As the neutral Swiss territory was safe for allied bombers, Germany also pressured the Swiss into forcing the allied air crews to land in Switzerland, instead of letting them continue bombing runs.〔H.R. Kurz: "Die Schweiz im Zweiten Weltkrieg" (1959)〕
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