A Swiss Political System Immune to Fascism? This Has Never Been the Case, Historians Say.

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In 1937, the University of Lausanne awarded Mussolini an honorary doctorate in Mussolini. A gesture attesting to a much more widespread philo-fascism in Switzerland than it was long wanted to admit. A book bringing together the contributions of a symposium on this topic bears witness to this. One of its co-authors, the historian Marc Perrenoud, specifies what makes the specificity of the extreme right in SwitzerlandIn 1937, the University of Lau…