2aguy
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Evidently more fearsome than the Red Army with their tanks, aircraft and artilleryGood god....your fantasies continuebut they have exceeded us in the mass murder of unarmed civilians....and in the modern countries of Europe, not 3rd world shit holes......they handed over 12 million innocent people to be murdered, far more than our criminals do each year......
Your same old tired argument
Based around your fantasy of armed civilians being able to fight off the Nazi army. How about you point to a single instance in all of Europe where armed civilians were successful in fighting the Nazis.
Want to know what really happened to armed resistance? Nazis rounded them up, killed them, killed their families and even destroyed whole towns where civilians were resisting
Switzerland....because the civilian population was so well armed and ready to fight, hitter moved on to other targets....
why did they round them up......because their governments disarmed all of them after world War 1. the allies dropped single shot, smooth bore pistols behind the lines...made by General Motors, to try to help the resistance but it wasn't enough.
you trot out the nazis rounding up civilians.......and fail to realize those civilians were under your gun control schemes....and were murdered in the millions for it.......
France and Germany disarmed their civilians after World War 1 and France did it again after World War 2.
Your argument points out what happens when the law abiding are unarmed....
Hitler was not afraid to attack the Soviet Union where he lost seven million soldiers.....but he was afraid of Switzerland because the civilians had guns.
The Soviets had air power, tanks, artillery, machine guns
But Hitler was afraid of the Swiss
the Swiss were to hard a nut to crack, and he needed his resources for
Russia....had they been unarmed, he would have gobbled them up.....like Belgium, and Norway...and the other countries who weren't armed as well as the Swiss....
In fact, the Swiss capitulated to Hitlers demands and he had no reason to invade them
Wrong…
THE SWISS WERE PREPARED TO FIGHT FACISM TO THE BITTER END | FRONTLINE | PBS
The other European nations were easily toppled and had little means to wage a partisan war against the occupation. Once their standing armies were defeated, the governments capitulated and the populaces were defenseless.
Only in Switzerland was the entire populace armed and prepared to wage a relentless guerrilla war against an invader. When the war began in 1939, Switzerland mobilized 435,000 citizen soldiers out of a population of 4.2 million. Production figures for Swiss service rifles, which had firepower equal to those of the Germans, demonstrate an ample supply of small arms. Swiss militiamen were instructed to disregard any alleged "official" surrender as enemy propaganda and, if necessary, to fight individually. This meant that a nation of sharpshooters would be sniping at German soldiers at long ranges from every mountain.