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.