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Ok the background here isn't important. Lets say for whatever the reason Nazi Germany decides to invade Switzerland in 1941. There is no help forecoming from either Vichy France or Mussolini. Further the Soviet Union isn't a factor here. This is all on the Germans and the Wehrmacht. How long would it take the Wehrmacht to overcome Swiss resistance and force their surrender.

My personal hunches is the Luftwaffe would gain control of air within a week before gaining total air supremacy within three weeks. On the ground it would be harder as the Alps isn't great Panzer territory. They would have to use the Luftwaffe was flying artillery, but could they break the National Redoubt the Swiss have?
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