Travelers who visit Switzerland rarely go as far north as Stein am Rhein, a beautiful medieval town that eptiomizes the kind of Swiss village that miniaturized cuckoo clocks hint at existing. This gem, ignored by most tourists visiting Switzerland, is located north of the Rhine River, where it is surrounded by Germany, hence why it lined up with our German journey. 
During World War II, it is rumored that Swiss neutrality didn't stop a munitions plant in nearby Schaffhausen from furnishing armaments to the Nazis. The United States bombed the town "by mistake" and we apologized for doing so, but it sounds a lot like the missions we watched on "Hogan's Heroes."
Countries may come and go as wars are won and lost, and along with those sweeping changes the factions of support rise and fall, but great cities and villages live on.
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