switzerland ww2

would there be any difference in ww2 if switzerland joined the axis? or would it be exactly the same except with a bunch of swiss runing around?
 
would there be any difference in ww2 if switzerland joined the axis? or would it be exactly the same except with a bunch of swiss runing around?

What's the PoD? Some kind of semi-successful Nazi Coup that takes over Switzerland?

This might not be ASB, but an excellent explanation is needed here. Swiss Nazis were weak and disorganized, I recall that one party wanted to kill Hitler for his pact with the Soviet Union. A more cohesive, powerful and determined effort might have done something, but I need to know HOW this happened.
 
i guess it could be a coup and that fits best but it could be that france is falling and vichy hasent been created yet and the swiss decide to join in.
 
i guess it could be a coup and that fits best but it could be that france is falling and vichy hasent been created yet and the swiss decide to join in.

Erm...

OK, as a democratic country that had renounced war for over a century, Switzerland's likelihood of joining a war for territorial gain is essentially nil. Furthermore, Switzerland might be "Pushable" but it would lightly abandon its neutrality.

Getting the Swiss to join the Axis might be doable with an Axis Dominated Europe AFTER France falls, but Switzerland isn't going to voluntarily join the Axis. Certainly Nazi Germany could make some mischief, and the Swiss could get strongarmed--and if Germany somehow beat the Soviet Union or it did not go to war with its big Red Neighbor, the Swiss would get incorporated into the Axis one way or another.

But the Swiss aren't going to join in 1940. And they didn't join OTL, even in the darkest portions of 1940 and 1942. So, think on that PoD a bit more...
 
This might not be ASB, but an excellent explanation is needed here. Swiss Nazis were weak and disorganized, I recall that one party wanted to kill Hitler for his pact with the Soviet Union. A more cohesive, powerful and determined effort might have done something, but I need to know HOW this happened.

Switzerland had 12 pro-Nazi parties, with a total of 40,000 followers. Apparently they were deemed too crazy (at first) to be much of a threat by the Switzerland government.

The Nazi parties really weakened after, in 1936, a (Jewish) student from the Bern University shot Wilhelm Gustloff, head of the National-Socialist Party in Switzerland.
Then the Nazi parties exacted revenge by killing a lot of Jews, and this turned Switzerland on. The government created some sort of Federal Police to flush out subversive activities, which resulted in most of the Nazi parties being banned. Then they refused to nominate a replacement for Gustloff, and this chopped the snake's head off. Then Switzerland mobilized.

The PoD would be that Gustloff doesn't get killed off. But I doubt that would do anything about the strength of the Nazi parties, but a least they could still dabble in Switzerland's politics, then after the Fall of France...
 
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