thaddeus
Donor
(inspired by thread about Axis in drug trade https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=330947)
what if a different leader of WWII Germany (Goering?) did not invade Poland in 1939 but instead invaded Switzerland?
(for the gold and a lesser extent the manufacturing base)
basically a bank robbery
(approx. 1.5 billion Swiss Francs physical gold in the country 1939 but it declined after that year as more was built up overseas, and that's the reserves of Swiss Natl. Bank not private stores)
what if a different leader of WWII Germany (Goering?) did not invade Poland in 1939 but instead invaded Switzerland?
(for the gold and a lesser extent the manufacturing base)
basically a bank robbery
(approx. 1.5 billion Swiss Francs physical gold in the country 1939 but it declined after that year as more was built up overseas, and that's the reserves of Swiss Natl. Bank not private stores)