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Shot from the Sky is about one of the great, dark secrets of World
War II: Neutral Switzerland shot down U.S. aircraft entering Swiss
airspace and imprisoned the survivors in internment camps,
detaining more than a thousand American flyers between 1943 and the
war's end. While conditions at the camps were adequate and humane
for internees who obeyed their captors' orders, the experience was
very different for those who attempted to escape. They were held in
special penitentiary camps in conditions as bad as those in some
prisoner-of-war camps in Nazi Germany. Ironically, the Geneva
Accords at the time did not apply to prisoners held in neutral
countries, so better treatment could not be demanded. When the war
ended in Europe, sixty-one Americans lay buried in a small village
cemetery near Bern. Details of this little-known episode are
brought to light by Cathryn Prince, who tells what happened and
examines the argument the Swiss used to justify their policy. She
shows that while the Swiss claimed they satisfied international
law, they applied the law in a grossly unfair manner. No German
airmen were interned, and the Nazi aircraft were allowed to refuel
at Swiss airfields. The author draws on first-person accounts and
unpublished sources, including interviews with eyewitnesses and
surviving American prisoners, and documents held by the Swiss
government and the U.S. Air Force. Although these events have been
briefly alluded to in other books, this is the first time that the
complete story has been presented.
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