The majority of the Swiss and the Swiss government were pro-Allied during the war, so it is very unlikely, verging on ASB, they would support the Axis.
Oh I'm sorry, I just meant a far right Switzerland. There is no Axis in my Timeline.
Rather than making Switzerland pro-Nazi, why don't you just have an Anschluss occur with them? I know pan-Germanism wasn't as popular in Switzerland as in Austria, but surely its doable, even if its just a coup by a fringe party.
Perhaps, but i think perhaps an Italo-German partition of Switzerland is more likely. You could even make the argument for a Franco-German partition, or perhaps split between the three.
However, if Germany does annex Switzerland, in full or in part, when, and what next? I think it would be interesting if it went Austria -> Switzerland -> Czechoslovakia -> Poland, and then the war, with all or most of Switzerland in Axis hands.
The majority of the Swiss(1) and the Swiss government (2) were pro-Allied during the war, so it is very unlikely, verging on ASB, they would support the Axis.
Thats actually what I was thinking in more detail, I was thinking that Germany get Switzerland (most of it), then cedes the small Italian areas to Mussolini to try to sweeten him up a bit. Perhaps the French move into the Francophone areas, which might make Hitler less lkely to take such a gamble with the French.
2) Bullshit. They had a funny way of showing it, as they didn't stop doing business with the Nazis until the last meter of German-controlled territory on the Swiss border was taken by the Allies. You don't blockade friendly countries, which AIUI the Allies did to Switzerland when they refused to cutoff trade with Hitler.
Well the Alps arenn't exactly tank country.
They were completley surrounded by hostile countries, can you really blame them? Did you know that they smuggled parts for AA guns and bomb sites to the UK disguised as Swiss watches? Did you know that the Nazis complained to the Swiss authorities about satirical cabaret that took the mick out of them and the Swiss essentially told them to go away?
When the Luftwaffe infringed Swiss airspace they were shot full of holes, when the USAAF, or RAF did it they were generally politley escorted out again. When the 8th AF accidentally bombed Switzerland the Swiss, even those on the receiving end, accepted it was an accident and forgave.
Both FDR and WSC went out of their way during the war to praise the Swiss.
The Swiss banks and buissinesses did continue to trade with the Nazis, but the attitude of the Swiss people and government had a very different attitude. Remember that the Swiss Federal government was even weaker then than it is now and it did not have the authority to block this trade. Also remember that Switzerland could not survive without trade with Nazi Germany, unless you are suggesting that the Swiss should have starved to death instead?