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You think the Germans were afraid of 400,000 poorly trained militia forces?Ask Mexico....they have gun control...and thousands of their people are murdered by their government every single year.....guns are the last line of defense.....you could ask the Swiss......guns kept the Germans from invading...and they didn't have to surrender their people to German gas chambers...unlike the people of the rest of Europe....
You are indeed a collosal fucking moron. BANKING kept Germany from invading Switzerland. Not to mention a mountain range. Nazis needed a stable repository for their war spoils. Fucking IDIOT.
Looks like you have about five hours left. Get your hundred bucks ready.
Nope........there were 435,000 armed civilians ready to fight a German invasion......the nazis took over the countries of Europe that had disarmed their civilians twit......
THE SWISS WERE PREPARED TO FIGHT FACISM TO THE BITTER END | FRONTLINE | PBS
That is why the Nazis despised Switzerland. Joseph Goebbels called Switzerland "this stinking little state" where "sentiment has turned very much against us." Adolf Hitler decided that "all the rubbish of small nations still existing in Europe must be liquidated," even if it meant he would later "be attacked as the 'Butcher of the Swiss.'"
The 1940 Nazi invasion plan, Operation Tannenbaum, was not executed, and SS Oberst Hermann Bohme's 1943 memorandum warned that an invasion of Switzerland would be too costly because every man was armed and trained to shoot. This did not stop the Gestapo from preparing lists of Swiss to be liquidated once the Nazis overran the country.
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.
While neutral, Switzerland was prepared to fight a Nazi invasion to the end. The celebrated Swiss Gen. Henri Guisan developed the strategy known as defense du reduit--an initial opposition followed by a retreat into the Alps, where a relentless war to the death would be waged. Most Swiss strongly opposed Nazism. Death sentences were issued for fifth-column activities, and proclamations against anti-Semitism were passed at various official levels. There was no Holocaust on Swiss soil, something that can not be said for France, the Netherlands, Poland or most of Europe.
The Germans took on the Soviet Union losing millions of soldiers. You think they were afraid of a few civilians with shotguns and hunting rifles??
They didn't invade Switzerland because they didn't have to. The Swiss gave them everything they wanted
They weren't shotguns and hunting rifles dipstick....they were civilians armed with military rifles and equipment...ready to fight any invasion.......
They had to invade Russia for 2 reasons......stalin was going to invade Germany......and hitler wanted Russian land.......
As my link points out, if the Swiss weren't so well armed, the national socialists would have invaded because hitler hated the swiss and wanted to mass murder them....just like he did with the unarmed people in the rest of Europe that he didn't like....
Read the link.....they had invasion plans and murder lists.....the 435,000 citizens armed with military rifles, pistols and equipment made them go elsewhere.......and it saved the Swiss from the gas chambers...
They had the equivalent of shotguns and pitchforks facing the most modern military force in the world with aircraft, tanks and a way of brutally dealing with civilian opposition
Read the link...the Swiss armed citizens were not armed with pitchforks and shotguns...that was the rest of Europe...that were defenseless after the Germans defeated their armies...leaving the citizens helpless....and then sent off to gas chambers.....
The swiss citizens had military rifles, pistols and other equipment and were organized......
Imagine if every country in Europe had populations as armed as we are today....there would have been on way the Germans could have held that territory.........the mass murder of 12 million people would not have happened.