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The article discusses the testing of German propaganda and policies in Switzerland as a test case prior to their implementation in the Netherlands and Scandinavia, other neutral regions in Europe, during World War I. Topics discussed include cultural and psychological aspects of German propaganda in neutral countries, the German conceptions of propaganda with different aims and audiences and the concept of Aufklärung, or elucidation, and statistics on written materials distributed in the neutral regions.