ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the problematic memorialisation of World War II and the Holocaust in Switzerland, focusing primarily on monuments and memorials but discussing also more intimate and less spectacular forms of remembrance that are embedded in everyday life, such as ‘stumbling stones’ and street names. It pays particular attention to the memory shift of the 1990s which is when the Swiss moved away from a self-centred and self-satisfied culture of remembrance to acknowledge that their country played an economic role in Nazi Germany’s war machine and contributed to the Holocaust through a very restrictive refugee policy. It concludes on the growing calls for the Swiss government to put in place commemorations and memorials that would complement local and private initiatives.
