Enter the two hundred
The entry of the two hundred was addressed to the Swiss Federal Council on November 15, 1940 . In it, 173 people from right-wing civil circles demanded that the editors-in-chief of leading Swiss bourgeois newspapers be eliminated and the League of Nations be expelled from Switzerland out of consideration for the expectations of National Socialist Germany .
The spokesmen for the petition were “Zurich” board member Andreas Sprecher, the historian Hektor Ammann , the lawyer Heinrich Frick and the Contraves engineer Hans Brändli. The latter commented on the constituent assembly with the following sentence, among other things: “We go decidedly too far in pitying everything weak and all evil. The individuality of a madman is not the same as that of a capable person. " And further down: "Your own ranks must be sparkling clean!"
Federal Councilor Eduard von Steiger assured the population that he rejected the demands; However, he also received some representatives of the petition and assured them that their concerns would be taken seriously internally and followed up.
literature
- Gerhart Waeger: The scapegoats of Switzerland: the two hundred in the judgment of the historical documents 1940-1946. 2nd edition, Walter Verlag , Olten 1971, ISBN 3-530-91200-X .
Web links
- Full text of the entry of the two hundred on the pages of the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (DDS) project
- Ruedi Brassel -Moser: Entering the two hundred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jakob Tanner : "Events are marching quickly" . In: Andreas Suter et al .: Structure and Event. Göttingen 2001, p. 274 f.
- ↑ Urs P. Engeler: Big Brother Switzerland , Weltwoche- Verlag, Zurich 1990, p. 124.