Switzerland · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Developed his famous "Reduit Concept" in summer 1940, according to which the Swiss Army would have retreated into the Alps relatively soon if attacked, but would have kept up resistance based on some sort of guerrilla and stay-behind tactics from there
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