Why didn't Nazi Germany invade Switzerland? Did Hitler fear

>>3378833
Wasn't worth the hassle and they were very intent on being a hassle.

>>3378833
Switzerland was more useful as a neutral territory. The Nazis needed someone to launder their money. Also Switzerland is extremely mountainous and very difficult to invade, it was not worth the effort.

Or did you want a meme reply?

>invading your best source of foreign currency

>>3378861
>foreign currency matters after 1939

>>3378870
>Germany didn't trade with anyone after 1939

>>3378879
>countries traded with germany for currency after 1939 and not gold or in kind payment

>>3378898
>According to the Reichsbank, gold and currency transactions in Switzerland were "of vital importance to the war", since the franc was the only freely convertible currency both for Germany and for its partner countries. Whilst it is true that fewer than 10% of German international payment transactions took place using foreign currency, after 1943 in particular, especially sought-after raw materials and goods could only be bought from the neutral and partner states in return for foreign currency, or had to be smuggled. Several examples show that without francs Nazi Germany would have been able to obtain only limited supplies, if any, of certain highly important raw materials such as tungsten and oil. Germany’s allies in particular demanded payment in francs so that they in turn could purchase military equipment and machinery from Switzerland. For instance, Romania made payment in Swiss francs a precondition for signing any economic agreements with Germany at all. Francs were also used in the neutral states such as Sweden (shipbuilding) or Spain and Portugal (tungsten). During the war, the Reichsbank had access to about two billion francs, half of which were used in Switzerland and half in international payment transactions. Overall, therefore, the specific importance of Switzerland lies less in its supply of armaments than in its function as a "hub" for international trade. In the case of certain Swiss industrial products however (machine tools, detonators) we can assume that Switzerland also made an important contribution to German wartime production.
https://www.uek.ch/en/schlussbericht/synthesis/ueke.pdf page 191-192

>>3378912
sorry i don't read mountainjew ((((((source))))))

>>3378848
>launder their money
why? at the point that Germany was at, what difference did laundered/unlaundered money make?

>>3378833
Hmm, it must be pure coincidence. Surely the Swiss did not try to profit from the situation, right?

>>3378936
Germany still needed to buy shit from the countries that it could.

Iron ore from Sweden and Tungsten from Spain/Portugal were two of the biggest. Wartime Germany made nothing that Sweden, Spain, or Portugal particularly wanted. What they did want (weapons), Germany itself needed.

Without exports to those countries, Germany did not have currency to buy the raw materials with. Those countries were smart enough to know that accepting seized foreign hard currency (gold bars, etc) was troublesome because it makes them complicit and the countries that had their cash stolen could ask for it back.

This is where Switzerland comes in. Germany sells the gold reserves seized from Poland/France/Belgium/Netherlands etc to Switzerland, which gives Germany Swiss Francs to buy goods from other countries.

Switzerland is the seat of international banking. The bank of international settlements is located in Bern.

>>3379111

> Switzerland is the seat of international banking. The bank of international settlements is located in Bern.

It's still the capital of "dark" banking, but the center of "white" banking is London, well for now anyways.

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>>3378848
>Also Switzerland is extremely mountainous and very difficult to invade, it was not worth the effort.

>>3379816
Hannibal got fucked in the mountains

>getting shot isn't so bad, look at all these survivors!

>>3379816

>swords, spears and bows are the same as machineguns, bombs and artillery

>>3379816
Yeah you are right I totally forgot about General Heinz Barcahnn who crossed the Alps with his panzer legions to carry out blitzkrieg tactics against the Romans.

Idiot.