| I often find WW2 neutrality a little 'suspicious'.
There's a variety of good reasons for being neutral, the most sensible, to me, being a pragmatic appreciation that one's country would be swallowed up immediately and proven unable to defend itself, but then there's that very fine ethical line of dealing with both sides, and profiting thereof, while claiming to have nothing to do with the war. The Swiss & Swedish (eg) never look quite as wholesome to me in the period as their reputation implies, though this is often down to industry rather than politics (if those 2 factors are separable?).
Must have been terrifying trying to exist as Neutral with Hitler as a neighbour though, didn't do the Dutch much good when Adolf's operational interests needed their geography.
Cheers,
Adam. |