History: #onthisday Due to Germany's military escalation in Central Europe, the Swiss Federal Council ordered the mobilization of the Swiss Armed Forces for the following day on 1 September 1939. Photo from Lucerne: All direction signs were removed and a soldier controls the traffic. [1251x1000]

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