The Singen Route. The Stories of Nineteen Allied POW Soldiers and Their Escape to Ramsen, Switzerland, Between 1941 and 1943

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Essay from the year 2017 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, language: English, abstract: This essay is about the "Singen Route", an escape route in to Switzerland for Allied POW officers during World War Two. Via individual case studies, the circumstances, conditions and respective outcomes of the attempted escapes are reconstructed. During this process, the essay focuses specifically on the officers arrival and reception in Switzerland and is based on, partly new, material made available by Swiss Archives in Berne.

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