Axis Switzerland Counterattack

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.
 
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.
 
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.

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.
 
The very same qualities that make Switzerland so defensible make it so hard to attack out of.

Oh, and her rail network was just fine. Just too many bridges that once knocked out would take years to repair.

Switzerland AIUI is also not food self-sufficient. They went very hungry during the Winter of 1944-45. As an Axis country? They'd starve, unless they accepted outright German Annexation, and the Nazis then shared their looted food. Don't laugh about the annexing bit. The Germans started working on it for Denmark in 1942. They just never realized before how hard it was to get things done in a country like Denmark, where you have no collaborators.:p

Postwar, I suspect Switzerland would just surrender. Only to face the mother of all confiscation of assets in their banks.:p
 
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.

1) Yes, certainly.

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.
 
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.

If the Germans annex Switzerland (In full or in part), it hardly seems unlikely that Liechtenstein would come too, lest it be a German enclave. It's also such a minor country that Hitler could full-on invade an occupy it without severe international backlash
 
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.

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?
 
Well the Alps arenn't exactly tank country.

The Swiss plan in the event of a German invasion was to fall back to an Alpine edoubt and fight a Guerrila War, The country might well have become another Yugoslavia for the Germans. Which, since I am part Swiss on my father's side and he was growing up at the time of WW2 means that, had something of that sort happened I might well never have been born.
 
An Operation Tannenbaum timeline might well be a good one and something I could certainly involve some of my Swiss relatives alive at the time in. Perhaps as resistance fighters around Lucerne.
 
Well the Alps arenn't exactly tank country.

Also it has to be remembered that nobody in Switzerland had the authority to surrender to the Germans. Moreover the army's orders were to disregard any orders they got to lay down their arms, so I'm guessing that the army would fight on so long as they had the ability to do so, even if it was just sniping.
 
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?

Just to add something to that, an attempt by the fascistic National Front to change the constitution by introducing nazi-inspired racial laws lost by something like 70% of the vote. So less then a third of the population had any sympathy for the nazi it would seem and some who voted for might simply be garden variety racists, not nazi.
 
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