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If you want German Switzerland you'll need to change the Sonderbund War.
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If you want Swiss Germany you'll need to change the Sonderbund War.
A Swiss Germany or a German Switzerland?![]()
Why everyone assumes armed conquests of Swiss? With german ruling all over Europe, they can be pressured economically to join, perhaps on some kind of protectorate status. They may be all well trained soldiers, but they surely can't eat rocks.
I bow to your connivingness. However, I must point out that the Swiss funded the Nazi's, especially early on (http://www.jstor.org/stable/3003923), so attacking them, even with economic sanctions would be financial stupidity. Let's suppose that doesn't stop Hitler, he was after all the world's most successful sociopath; Hitler imposes sanctions once he has the Swiss surrounded and starves them till they submit. Nazi German troops occupy Switzerland, now the surviving populace's hatred of Nazi Germany shall reach a fever pitch. The Swiss would fight to the last man.
Also, I don't think Hitler would want to starve the Swiss as they are mostly German "Aryans" and he liked that.
Most of Switzerland spoke german, North and East did.
I don't think it is unreasonable to assume victory over the Swiss. They were isolated and the population centers to the north were vulnerable. It's far from ASB.
Do you think it possible Hitler could have changed his mind about Barbarossa?
German Speaking Switzerland isn't happening, EVER, the Swiss would fight it to the last man (and likely the last woman too), if Hitler stopped in 1938, maybe he keeps Austria and the Sudetenland, the Polish lands is a no go, he does that its war with France and the UK and he can't win, though maybe if we get the war up to Operation Barbarossa a stale mate with the UK drags out into a cease fire like the Korean War, but thats as far as it goes, the Germans never wanted Luxembourg as far as I can tell, Switzerland would be like Vietnam, only 100 worse, and any attack on Poland likely leads to our WWII.
What is all this "Swiss will fight to the last man" wanking coming from? They didn't when Napoleon invaded. They're not Afghans: most can't make a living off subsistence agriculture after the economy collapses, they might actually care if their country is reduced to smouldering, corpse-covered ruin if that's what it takes to drive the Germans out, and in Nazi Europe, they don't have an unpoliceably long border with a "Pakistan" through which the US (or USSR?) can smuggle loads of weapons.
As for the Aryan bit, Hitler could be very vindictive when "Aryans" failed to agree with him: he had thought quite highly of the British Empire, but when they defied him, the Nazis made up plans, IIRC, to draft most of the adult British male population as slave labor once the place fell...
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