It was a murderer’s confession: «Perhaps, only posterity will understand and will thank me for being the first to openly fight these evildoers», Maurice Conradi went on record with the Lausanne police. On 10 May 1923, Conradi, a Swiss citizen living in Russia, had shot Soviet diplomat Vatslav Vorovsky in the hotel Cécil, in front of witnesses.

Fabienne Meyer und Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler stellen ihr Projekt über den Umgang der Schweizer Behörden mit Schweizer Opfern des Nationalsozialismus vor.

Exactly 100 years ago, Switzerland’s smallest neighbour made its fateful decision: Wedged between the Confederation and Austria, the Principality of Liechtenstein turned to the former and, on 29 March 1923, signed the Customs Union Treaty with Switzerland.