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    • Official publications and other digitised documents
    • Open Government Data
    • NRLA information portal
    • Wikimedia CH
      • Carl Durheim’s police photographs of stateless persons
      • Geneva Conventions
      • "Active Service in the First World War" photo collection 1914-1918
    • Other databases
    • Online access
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  • Topics
    • The Old Swiss Confederacy
      • The Confederation before 1798: Switzers, Swiss and Helvetians
      • White on Red: the Swiss Cross
    • Modern Switzerland
      • Era of change: Switzerland between 1798 and 1848
      • The Swiss state and its citizens after 1848
      • The Confederation's new authorities
    • Emigrants and immigrants
      • In search of family history
      • Switzerland – land of emigration
      • Switzerland – land of immigration
      • Traces of significant figures of contemporary history
    • Foreign policy since 1848
      • Switzerland's representations abroad
      • Switzerland's humanitarian tradition
      • How Switzerland is connected to the world
    • The First World War
      • Armed neutrality and active service
      • Economic warfare and social hardship
      • Reinforcement of the State and political radicalisation
    • Second World War
      • Controversial refugee policy
      • Contested finance centre and wartime economy
      • Memories of active service and réduit
    • Homeless and travellers in Switzerland
      • Problematic handling of transients
      • "Vagabond children" – access to files and note of objection
    • Enforced welfare measures
    • Intelligence services, spies, traitors to the nation and state security
      • Intelligence services: scandals and an unspectacular daily routine
      • Political police and state security in Switzerland
      • State security files and dossiers: access procedure and practical information
    • The history of the Swiss Army
      • Swiss soldiers in foreign service
      • Information and data on military staff
      • Military jurisdiction, peace movement and conscientious objection
      • The military aircraft, weapons, tanks and fortifications
    • The Swiss economy between market and state
      • Farmers' state or state of farmers?
      • Industrialisation and the social issue
      • The success story of the "Swiss financial centre"
    • History of transport in Switzerland
      • Railway, PostBus and co. reshape Switzerland
      • When Switzerland took to the skies – and later landed with a bang
      • Swiss shipping: in transit on rivers, lakes and oceans
    • Legal texts, certificates and treaties
    • Photos, plans, film and sound recordings held by the Federal Archives
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    • Women’s suffrage in Switzerland
    • Looted art
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