Switzerland instead of Greece

Did the Germans take the wives and children of Free French (or other government-in-exile) soldiers fighting abroad hostage en masse to force them to surrender?

If they did not, why would they do this here?

Actually, there may be cause to take the children; they would make for good settlers in the East.
 
Actually, there may be cause to take the children; they would make for good settlers in the East.

So could any sufficiently "Aryan" kids from the conquered countries.

The Germans had the "Lebensborn" program in Norway, but I don't think that involved mass child-snatching. IIRC the Germans did that in Poland with sufficiently "Aryan" children, but I'm not aware of that being retaliation for continued resistance.
 
MerryPrankster, how hard is it going to be for the Swiss to notice that the retreat to the mountains did not include their own families due to lack of a proper supply situation?
 

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Switzerland being invaded? ASB

This is a prime example of how inappropriately and annoyingly overused the "ASB" thing is :rolleyes:

No, an invasion of Switzerland during WWII would not be impossible without the help of "Alien Space Bats"...

However, the Germans are the only ones who even have the slightest chance at pulling it off (That doesn't include the occupation).

I feel like the "national redoubt" thing gets too much credit. Sure, it's a nice, almost romantic image, the soldiers so devoted, they're even trained to ignore their own government telling them to surrender, but these guys are in fact human, their supplies won't last forever, and their families are going to be left alone at the whims of enemy soldiers.
 
So could any sufficiently "Aryan" kids from the conquered countries.

The Germans had the "Lebensborn" program in Norway, but I don't think that involved mass child-snatching. IIRC the Germans did that in Poland with sufficiently "Aryan" children, but I'm not aware of that being retaliation for continued resistance.

True, but here, there is the chance to make already Germanized kids into full-fledged Nazis while also giving motivation for the resistance in the Alps to cease.
 
I am assuming that I am not the only one who read Fatherland, the novel set twenty years after the Nazi victory. The authors had the Germans control all of Europe but Switzerland. They found Switzerland and Swiss banks too useful.
 
I am assuming that I am not the only one who read Fatherland, the novel set twenty years after the Nazi victory. The authors had the Germans control all of Europe but Switzerland. They found Switzerland and Swiss banks too useful.

I'm familiar with that, but I'm not convinced that Switzerland would survive as a pocket of relatively democratic neutrality adjacent to the heart of Fascist Europe.
 
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