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17 Wild at the Board of Directors’ meeting of Verkaufs-Aktiengesellschaft Heinrich Wilds Geodesic
Instruments, Heerbrugg, 21 February 1925, Wild Archives, file «Protokolle Geschäftsberichte».
18 Knoepfli, Fischer, 1998, pp. 111–160, here pp. 139f.
19 Hahn, Waffen, vol. 1, 1986, p. 57.
20 For the Bankhaus Johann Wehrli & Cie. AG see Uhlig/Barthelmess/König/Pfaffenroth/Zeugin,
Tarnung, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), section 7.4.
21 Newton, Neutralization, 1986, vol. 3, p. 579.
22 See also Zumstein, Pabst, 1990, pp. 41–48.
23 Both agreements can be found in the Systematic Compilation of Federal Laws (Systematische
Rechtssammlung, SR) 0.515.21 and 0.515.22; Cf. Dürst, Neutralität, 1983, pp. 69ff., pp. 89f.
Schindler also noted a violation of the neutrality laws, Schindler, Neutralitätsrecht, 2001 (Publications
of the ICE), pp. 101ff. and 105ff.
24 Minutes of the Federal Council, DDS, vol. 13, no. 156, pp. 348f.
25 War material contracts as per 20 March 1940 in francs for France: 143 million; for the UK:
121 million; as per 15 March 1940 for Germany: 0.15 million; Cf. Vogler, Wirtschaftsverhandlungen,
1997, p. 59. Between September 1939 and June 1940 arms, ammunition and detonators
(customs items 811–813, 1084 and 948a) were exported to France and the UK for a value of
94,496,000 francs, and to Germany for 345,000 francs; see also DDS, vol. 15, no. 423, p. 1079.
26 Ritter, note, 30 May 1940, in: ADAP, D, IX, no. 329, pp. 365f.
27 Also Schindler, Neutralitätsrecht, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), pp. 101f. and p. 105.
28 DeTec Archives H 0476, Rheinmetall-Borsig AG to the people responsible for machine production
at the Reichsstelle Maschinenbau (Berlin), 18 January 1945.
29 Tavaro Archives, Mefina S.A. (Binningen), «Annual Report for 1939. 6th Annual General Meeting»,
31 October 1940; Tavaro Archives, Tavaro SA (Geneva), «Minutes of the Annual General Meeting»,
31 October 1940.
30 The Schwob brothers each received 80,000 francs per year; normal Board members received 10,000
francs. See Tavaro Archives, Schweizerische Treuhandgesellschaft Basel: Mefina AG Binningen,
«Report of 3 October 1942 concerning the auditing of the balance sheet as at 31 December 1941
and the profit and loss account for the business year 1940», p. 17. See also report on balance sheet
as per 31 December 1942.
31 Compare the delivery of lathes with the the operations mentioned above in: Picard, Swiss Made,
1993, pp. 85–105, here pp. 94ff.
32 See also Schindler, Neutralitätsrecht, 2001 (Publication of the ICE), pp. 105ff. This short-term
violation of the neutrality laws was also noted by Urner, Neutralität, 1985, pp. 250–292, here
p. 277.
33 German Wehrmacht, Colonel Neef’s account of a journey, meeting with Arthur Junghans at Dixi
in Le Locle, 24 September 1942, BA/MA Freiburg, RW 19/3235.
34 German Wehrmacht, Colonel Neef’s account of a journey, inspection of the Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik
Oerlikon, Bührle & Co, 21 September 1942, BA/MA Freiburg, RW 19/3235.
35 Schindler, Neutralitätsrecht, 2001 (Publications of the ICE), pp. 105f.
36 KTA (Oberstbrigadier René von Wattenwyl) to the EMD, 25 September 1948, FA E27/19344,
vol. 8.
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