usertron2020
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The OP is asking "What if they...", not "Could they ever...?"
I think posters can't get through the relative impossibility of an Axis-Swiss idea on its face. Not in this world. You'd need PODs so early as to make Switzerland a very very different country politically, ethnically, historically, etc.
IF OTOH you consider "Country X" in the place of what is today modern Switzerland then I would imagine that said region would be bypassed for most of the war, like the French-Italian Alps, parts of Yugoslavia, Albania, Denmark, and Norway. Mind, these were all Axis-occupied countries rather than Axis allies.
"Country X" would probably be in the same unenviable position of either Finland or a Spain that had DoWed the Allies. Too strong and too irrelevant to invade when the Allies/USSR had their hands full elsewhere, but God help them when the time came that the Allies/USSR's hands became free. This "Country X"/Super-ATLed Switzerland would probably collapse like Germany did after the Allies broke out into open country and ran across Germany on the Autobahn.
I think posters can't get through the relative impossibility of an Axis-Swiss idea on its face. Not in this world. You'd need PODs so early as to make Switzerland a very very different country politically, ethnically, historically, etc.
IF OTOH you consider "Country X" in the place of what is today modern Switzerland then I would imagine that said region would be bypassed for most of the war, like the French-Italian Alps, parts of Yugoslavia, Albania, Denmark, and Norway. Mind, these were all Axis-occupied countries rather than Axis allies.
"Country X" would probably be in the same unenviable position of either Finland or a Spain that had DoWed the Allies. Too strong and too irrelevant to invade when the Allies/USSR had their hands full elsewhere, but God help them when the time came that the Allies/USSR's hands became free. This "Country X"/Super-ATLed Switzerland would probably collapse like Germany did after the Allies broke out into open country and ran across Germany on the Autobahn.