- Saas-Fee, 1
- Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 1, 2
- Saint-Agnes, 1
- St Anton, 1, 2, 3, 4
- St Gallen, 1
- Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Treaty of, 1, 2
- St Gervais, 1, 2, 3
- St Gotthard Pass, 1, 2
- St Gotthard rail tunnel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Saint-Jean-de-Sixt, 1
- St-Martin-Vésubie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- St Maurice, 1
- St Moritz, 1, 2, 3, 4
- St-Nizier-du-Moucherotte, 1, 2, 3
- Saisies, Col des, 1
- Salò, 1, 2, 3
- Salvadori, Max, 1
- Salzburg: Anschluss in, 1;
- Hitler–Mussolini meeting, 1;
- Mauthausen subcamp, 1;
- O5 cell, 1;
- as part of Alpenfestung, 1;
- surrenders to Allies, 1;
- von Trapp family in, 1, 2;
- White Rose leaflets, 1
- Samedan, 1, 2, 3
- Sandoz, Yves, 1
- Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, 1
- Sargans, 1
- Savoia, Prince General Umberto di, 1, 2, 3, 4
- Schaffhausen, 1
- Schamberger, Paul, 1
- Scharnhorst, 1
- Schmidt, Dr Paul, 1
- Schneikert, Private First Class Fred, 1
- Scholl, Hans and Sophie, 1
- Schönbühl hut, 1
- Schreiber, Leutnant Alfred, 1
- Schuschnigg, Kurt, 1, 2, 3
- Schwab, 1
- Schwarz, Urs, 1, 2
- Schweinitz, Oberstleutnant Viktor von, 1
- Schweizerischer Vaterländischer Verband (SVV), 1
- Second World War, The (Churchill), 1
- Sedlmeyer, Max, 1
- Selborne, Lord, 1, 2, 3
- Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 1, 2, 3
- Shelley, Mary, 1
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1
- Shirer, William L.: on Anschluss, 1;
- on Berchtesgaden surrender, 1;
- censorship of, 1;
- on forced euthanasia program, 1, 2;
- hatred for Nazis, 1;
- leaves Europe, 1;
- on mood in Berlin, 1;
- on mood in Geneva, 1, 2;
- on Occupation of France, 1;
- predicts Swiss deprivation, 1;
- on rationing, 1;
- on Swiss fighting spirit, 1;
- on Switzerland’s turn, 1;
- on treatment of Austrian Jews, 1;
- on war’s end, 1;
- on White Rose, 1;
- wins Wehrmacht wager, 1
- Sicily, 1, 2, 3, 4
- Siegfried Line, 1, 2
- Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1
- Simplon rail tunnel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Simpson, General William Hood, 1
- Sinclair, Admiral Sir Hugh, 1
- skiing: Allied POWs in resorts, 1, 2, 3;
- British military attachés’, 1;
- cable railways in Davos, 1;
- introduced to Alps, 1;
- at Megève, 1;
- postwar development, 1
- Skorzeny, SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto, 1
- Smith, General Walter Bedell, 1
- Soleti, General Fernando, 1
- Solferino, Battle of, 1
- Sound of Music, The (Wise), 1, 2
- South African forces, 1
- South Tyrol: German–Italian dispute, 1, 2, 3
- Soviet Union: controls eastern Austria, 1;
- delay to Barbarossa, 1, 2;
- as German ally, 1;
- October Revolution, 1;
- Stalingrad counterattack, 1;
- see also Red Army
- Spechel, Augusto, 1, 2
- Special Air Service (SAS), 1
- Special Operations Executive (SOE): absorbs Section D (MI6), 1;
- arms Chetniks, 1;
- Bailey sent to assess Chetniks, 1;
- and BBC, 1;
-
- Cairo base, 1;
- creation of, 1;
- critics of, 1;
- Deakin sent to assess partisans, 1;
- funds French resistance, 1, 2;
- liaison with Italian partisans, 1, 2, 3, 4;
- and Ossola republic, 1;
- Philby on, 1;
- rail sabotage, 1;
- record in Italy, 1;
- relationship with RAF, 1;
- and Special Projects Operations Centre, 1;
- supports Italian partisans, 1
- Special Projects Operations Centre, 1, 2
- Speer, Albert: on Berlin bunker meeting, 1;
- on Blondi, 1;
- career, 1;
- disperses industrial production, 1;
- farewell to Hitler, 1;
- on Hitler at Obersalzberg, 1;
- on industrialists at Berghof, 1;
- inspects Mittelbau-Dora, 1;
- on Me 1, 2;
- on New Year 1945, 1;
- Obersalzberg residence, 1, 2;
- rebuilding plans, 1;
- sabotages ‘scorched earth’ policy, 1;
- tried at Nuremberg, 1;
- on V-2 rocket, 1, 2;
- as war production minister, 1, 2
- Sperrle, Generalfeldmarschall Hugo, 1
- Srodes, James, 1
- SS: charges Messerschmitt for slave labour, 1;
- Darnand’s rank, 1;
- Deutsche Erde- und Steinwerke (DESt), 1;
- 1st SS-Standarte (Munich), 1;
- garrisons in Italian Alps, 1;
- and MI6 plan for Molden, 1;
- replaces Riemer at Ebensee, 1;
- Totenkopfverbände, 1, 2, 3;
- see also Gestapo; Waffen-SS
- Stack, Brigadier General Robert, 1, 2
- Stalin, Joseph: advises Tito’s withdrawal from Carinthia, 1;
- Churchill cable on German surrender, 1;
- Churchill on, 1;
- and Eisenhower’s Alpenfestung cable, 1;
- Hitler’s perception of, 1;
- opposes early German surrender, 1, 2, 3;
- on resistance and tanks, 1;
- suggests Allied invasion of Switzerland, 1;
- Tehran Conference, 1, 2, 3;
- Yalta Conference, 1
- Stalingrad, Battle of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Stampfli, Walther, 1
- Stauffenberg, Count Claus Schenk von, 1
- Steiger, Eduard von, 1
- Steinhauser, Sergeant Hans, see Molden, Fritz
- Stelvio Pass, 1
- Sterzing, 1
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1, 2
- Streicher, Julius, 1
- Strong, Major General Kenneth, 1
- Stuart, Captain William, 1
- Sulzer, Hans, 1, 2
- Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Susloparov, General Ivan, 1
- Sutjeska, Battle of, 1, 2
- Swiss air force, 1, 2
- Swiss Alps: Allied POWs escape to, 1;
- border patrols, 1;
- fortresses and fortified passes, 1;
- German–Italian trade, 1;
- Italian interest in Ticino, 1;
- Italian partisans escape to, 1;
- POW camps, 1, 2, 3;
- punishment camps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
- rail tunnels, 1, 2;
- residents help escaped POWs, 1;
- Rütli rally, 1
- Swiss army: at Belfort Gap, 1, 2;
-
- demobilisation, 1;
- military service, 1;
- mobilisation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
- older home defence soldiers recalled, 1;
- size and composition of, 1;
- see also Guisan, General Henri
- Swiss intelligence, see Nachrichtendienst
- Swiss Internment Commissariat, 1
- Swiss National Bank, 1
- Switzerland: agreement with Allies over Germany, 1;
- agricultural production, 1, 2;
- air flights from Britain, 1;
- Allied airmen crash-land in, 1;
- Allied ‘loot declaration’, 1;
- Allied trade blockade, 1, 2;
- Americans advised to leave, 1;
- Anglo-Swiss relations, 1;
- and Anschluss, 1;
- anti-Semitism and xenophobia, 1;
- approach roads mined, 1;
- asylum in, 1;
- and Battle of Britain, 1, 2;
- blackouts, 1;
- border defences, 1;
- Britons ordered to leave, 1;
- categories of refugees, 1, 2;
- Churchill praises, 1;
- and Churchill’s defiance, 1;
- contributes to Marshall Plan, 1;
- diplomatic representation, 1, 2, 3;
- effect of Operation Anton, 1, 2;
- English affection for, 1;
- exports to Axis, 1, 2;
- fascist groups in, 1;
- and foreign intelligence services, 1, 2, 3, 4;
- fortified passes, 1;
- general mobilisation, 1;
- German feints, 1, 2;
- German invasion plans, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
- as German shortcut from Italy, 1;
- gold reserves, 1;
- and Great Depression, 1;
- and Grossdeutsches Reich, 1, 2;
- Guisan’s Alpine Redoubt plan, 1, 2, 3, 4;
- Gustloff assassination, 1;
- imports from Germany, 1, 2, 3;
- and Jewish refugees, 1, 2, 3;
- März-Alarm, 1, 2, 3;
- military intelligence in, 1;
- Nazi gold, 1, 2;
- neutrality, 1, 2;
- newspapers in, 1;
- Pilet-Golaz’s speech, 1, 2, 3, 4;
- porous northern frontier, 1, 2, 3;
- precision-equipment manufacture, 1;
- rationing, 1;
- Red Cross, 1, 2, 3;
- rumoured Italian invasion, 1, 2;
- Stalin suggests Allied invasion, 1;
- strategic position, 1
- Symons, A. J. A., 1, 2
- Szymanska, Halina, 1, 2