Büsingen Reich?

What is the most likely result in this scenario?

  • The locals would disolve the Reich apparatus themselves.

    Votes: 5 31.3%
  • Switzerland will allow the allies to occupy the place.

    Votes: 3 18.8%
  • The allies will violate Swiss neutrality and occupy it nonetheless.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Swiss police / army will occupy it.

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • They will get blockaded and starve pretty quick.

    Votes: 2 12.5%
  • They will still be around in June 1945.

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • And in 1946.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • And in 1955.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • And in 1990.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • And even today!

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • What are you smoking? How is this even a question?!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I am afraid to answer, because the Nazis from the Hollow Earth will come and get me! :-)

    Votes: 3 18.8%

  • Total voters
    16

Zagan

Donor
Büsingen, the only exclave of Germany is enclaved into Switzerland.

According to Wikipedia (yes, I know...),
Included in the French zone was the town of Büsingen am Hochrhein, a German exclave separated from the rest of the country by a narrow strip of neutral Swiss territory. The Swiss government agreed to allow limited numbers of French troops to pass through its territory in order to maintain law and order in Büsingen.[citation needed]

I don't know if the above is true, especially as they added that "citation needed" thingy.
Anyway, either if French soldiers did indeed get there or if they did not and the locals happily dismantled the local Nazi State infrastructure themselves, the end result was the same: Nothing special ever happened in Büsingen.
But what if it did?

What if
  • No allied troops got there (no bypassing of neutral sovereign Swiss territory) and
  • The local people did not dismantle the Nazi State infrastructure inside their enclave.
What would have happened next? A Third Reich rump state of cca 1500 inhabitants, enclaved into neutral Switzerland, with swastika flags and all (minus death camps of course, there weren't any in the exclave and most probably no perpetrators either).

Several very unlikely assumptions:
  • The allies respect Swiss neutrality.
  • The Swiss police does not intervene.
  • The locals continue to use the Third Reich paraphernalia (instead of simply folding into BRD).
  • If blockaded, they do not starve (they may be self sufficient food wise).
What would the situation be after a few weeks? After a year? After 10 years? Now? Way too absurd? Is it even remotely plausible?

A similar question could be asked about the Italian enclave of Campione d'Italia.
Or, to make it more interesting, both of them, a Nazi German and a Fascist Italian microstates enclaved in Switzerland!

Note: No high profile refugees there, only ordinary people, almost all of them local residents.
 
Not possible after the war.. That said ..weirder things happen. If they are loud enough to be heard outside of their hamlet, an allied garrison arrives with a group of pitchfork wielding Swiss guards to talk to them about the current world situation, which after review the locals decide it's better to go back to drinking beer and eating sausages and or flying the Swiss flag and saying .. Huh.. No idea what you talk of .. We are Swiss.

If it flies under the radar for a year, and they are serious in thinking they are the remnant of the third Reich, well.. Uhm.. They are in for a rude awakening when they are occupied and forced to clean toilets
 

Zagan

Donor
Update
I found an OTL example of something similar: Baarle-Hertog (complex system of Belgian enclaves in Netherlands) remained free in WW1 (unoccupied by the German Empire) after the occupation of the rest of Belgium was complete, due to them being completely surrounded by neutral Dutch territory.
And they did not even try to keep a low profile as some Belgians there maintained a radio post encouraging Belgian patriotism or something.
 

Cook

Banned
Baarle-Hertog (complex system of Belgian enclaves in Netherlands) remained free in WW1 (unoccupied by the German Empire) after the occupation of the rest of Belgium was complete, due to them being completely surrounded by neutral Dutch territory.

That is not analogous situation; in World War One Belgium was never fully occupied, nor did its government surrender; the king and government continued to exercise executive authority from Flanders. The Germans would have been reluctant to raise the issue with The Hague while hostilities continued because the Netherlands was Germany's window on the world and backdoor past the British blockade. It is unlikely that Baarle-Hertog could have remained as an independent outpost if Germany have won the First World War and occupied all of the rest of Belgium.

Likewise, with only 300m of Swiss territory separating Büsingen from occupied Germany, it's hard to see the allies deciding to just let it be; they would have made the Swiss authorities an offer they couldn't refuse - either step aside or get shot, the choice would be theirs, either way the allies would be marching through.
 
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