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re: Why didn't Germany invade Switzerland?
Posted on 5/16/19 at 6:50 pm to tigahbruh
Posted on 5/16/19 at 6:50 pm to tigahbruh
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They WERE neutral,
Sweden was a true neutral and took no shite from Germany, taking in refugees and even using its influence to try to save POWs and concentration camp inmates. Even Spain stood up to Germany on some significant issues. Switzerland was a "friendly neutral" for most of the war and even afterward, making themselves useful in any number of ways. Maybe you can't fault them too much because Germany could and would have invaded if necessary, and if they had been really determined, the Swiss couldn't have stopped them. But at any rate, Switzerland wasn't exactly a profile in courage.
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Posted on 5/17/19 at 6:06 am to Jim Rockford
quote:Ehhh, that’s your version maybe.
Even Spain stood up to Germany on some significant issues.
Franco kept his distance from being sucked into the Axis alliance as a strategic political move. Franco had no radical moral differences with the Nazis. He was cut out of the same Machiavellian cloth as were Hitler & Mussolini. As the tide of the European war went against the Axis, Franco played the long game (for himself). Spain did whatever little standing up to Nazi Germany it was going to do in ‘44 or ‘45, and from what I’ve read, that was mostly in spite of Franco* rather than a decree or policy change from him.
*Spanish diplomats abroad with consciences going rogue and helping folks.
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