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| | Chapter 1: Background to Internment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Then in September of 1939 new orders required pilots to “differentiate between planes that are passing Swiss airspace in order to attack a country with whom Switzerland has a treaty securing the status of neutrality, and those planes that accidentally enter Swiss airspace, i.e. |
| | It was from Balsthal, on a clear day, that I saw something I never experienced before: There were two or three aircraft, like silvery insects, circling each other as in a courtship dance–but the spectacle was accompanied by gunfire, so you knew it was the real thing. |
| | As Ernst Wetter puts it: “it can be observed that the fighting spirit demonstrated by our pilots was at least equal to that of the Germans, if not indeed superior” (Wetter, p. |
| www.personal.psu.edu /users/d/r/dra3/swiss1.htm (10432 words) |
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