Billy Shears: Hitler never even actually wanted to fight England, what would make you think he seriously wanted to invade Switzerland? His overriding ambition was to go east. From first to last, he wanted nothing more than to invade Russia and take lebensraum in the east. He even resented having to divert into the Balkans and Greece in order to save Mussolini's bacon when the Greeks started kicking Il Duce's ass. Even the German effort in North Africa (again undertaken to rescue the in-over-their-heads Italians), was something he looked at as no more than a distracting sideshow, diverting men and resources from the eastern campaign that was all he really cared about.
Hitler didn't invade Switzerland, but it wasn't because he was terrified of the Swiss, it was because his real target was, first, last, and always, the Russians.
Very true. Even in 1939 when the Soviets and Nazis were signing their nonaggression treaty, the plans for Operation Barbarossa were being drawn up by the Nazis.
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