# Why didn't Nazi Germany invade Switzerland?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 20, 2005, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-nazi-germany-invade-switzerland/304725 "2005-05-20T11:01:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-nazi-germany-invade-switzerland/304725/21 "2005-05-20T22:59:57Z")

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> [@Chimark](#):
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> Switzerland was just not worth the effort. It could put up a fight, true the Germans would’ve won, but why bother when the Swiss co-operated with the Germans and they could simply go around it.

This is basically what I was thinking. The real question should be: “Why should Nazi Germany have invaded Switzerland?” I can’t think of much in the way of good reasons. Why invade Switzerland unless the Swiss were somehow impeding the goals of the Nazis?

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-nazi-germany-invade-switzerland/304725/22 "2005-05-20T23:18:43Z")

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> [@Raguleader](#):
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> Plus, we’ve all seen a Swiss Army Knife… can you imagine a Swiss Army Tank?

lol BEST answer yet 😃

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**Author:** ![adirondack\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@adirondack\_mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adirondack_mike)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-nazi-germany-invade-switzerland/304725/23 "2005-05-21T01:11:26Z")

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I don’t know those Swiss have some serious knives -

[The Tick should know.](http://www.thetick.ws/tvvillains.html#swiss)

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**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-didnt-nazi-germany-invade-switzerland/304725/24 "2005-05-21T01:47:02Z")

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Besides, they couldn’t invade until the USAAF was finished softening them up:

[Oops!](http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj00/sum00/helmreich.html)

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