Neutrals in WW2

WorldWatcher

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If the European neutrals such as Sweden,Turkey,Spain, and Switzerland did not stay neutral, what sides do you think they would join and how much of an effect do you think theywould have on the outcome of the war?
 
Spain would have taken Germany's side. Anything else would have been stupid prior to 1944. Sweden and Switzerland? Tough call. Turkey would have probably joined with Germany if anyone.
 
Spain was going to join Hitler but some diferences made it a no go.


Switzerland actualy did aid the nazi's such as building things for them and hidding thier wealth so they would have went Germany. Swededn probably would have gone with The Allies since it had saw Germany invade it's nieghbors, and Turkey probably would have went with NG for defensive reasons.
 
Turkey would go with Germany most because of a long and bitter history with Russia. They'd never have sided with any alliance that included Russia/USSR.
 
Darcia said:
Spain was going to join Hitler but some diferences made it a no go.


Switzerland actualy did aid the nazi's such as building things for them and hidding thier wealth so they would have went Germany. Swededn probably would have gone with The Allies since it had saw Germany invade it's nieghbors, and Turkey probably would have went with NG for defensive reasons.
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Yea Switzerland was Germany's main trade outlet. Many of the neutral nations such as Sweden,Turkey and Spain wanted to trade with Germany for economic reason but did not want the political ties with Germany because of their aggresiveness. That's where Switzerland came in and traded in swiss currency with Germany's money which gave Switzerland and Germany alot of profit.Switzerland also held most of the German plunder such as artwork etc.
 
Switzerland was basicly the forgotten Axis power, they even produced a few tanks for um.



Switzerland was able to do this cause Germany didn't want to try to make it through those mountains.
 
Spain realized that the last thing they needed was to go to war, since they had a country to rebuild. However they did join the Reich by allowing the formation of the Blau Div.

As a neutral country, they understood that a debt was owed for Germany's assistance in the civil war. There was a mutual respect, between AH and Franco, one of the many reasons AH never invaded Spain. AH also respected the Spanish soldier, so much , the 25oth was the only Div. AH commissioned a medal for them.

Gen. Franco had no plans to re-create the Spanish Empire, he could have started with Portugal if that was the case. Therefore he was not the classic Facista, as many tend to believe. As promised to Nixon, he re-instituted the Crown, and created a Middle-Class, both non-existant in 30's and 40's.

The Swiss also had contracts to manufacture items for the Germans,

Bare in mind that many of the countries that were also occupied, had their own NS parties, and many had no problems witht he Germans being there, it was not until the Allied Countries decided to fund terrorist organizations (they were called Partisans those days) that things started to get bad.
 
Well, the problem for the Swiss was simple -- how do you go about business as usual (trade and commerce, etc) when you are completely surrounded by nations held by one side?? You trade with the one side. If its weapons they're buying, you'd sell them weapons. If its watches, sell them watches.
 
redcoat said:
Turkey declared war on Germany in Feb 45.
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"Jumping on the bandwagon". Never a more obvious case of it. There were several nations who jumped in when the outcome was obvious. I find it to be quite funny really.
 
Yeah A Few Nations even did that in WW1, got to hand it to um though. They lose almost no soilders and still get on the winning side.
 
Guaripa said:
Spain realized that the last thing they needed was to go to war, since they had a country to rebuild. However they did join the Reich by allowing the formation of the Blau Div.

As a neutral country, they understood that a debt was owed for Germany's assistance in the civil war. There was a mutual respect, between AH and Franco, one of the many reasons AH never invaded Spain. AH also respected the Spanish soldier, so much , the 25oth was the only Div. AH commissioned a medal for them.

Gen. Franco had no plans to re-create the Spanish Empire, he could have started with Portugal if that was the case. Therefore he was not the classic Facista, as many tend to believe. As promised to Nixon, he re-instituted the Crown, and created a Middle-Class, both non-existant in 30's and 40's.

The Swiss also had contracts to manufacture items for the Germans,

Bare in mind that many of the countries that were also occupied, had their own NS parties, and many had no problems witht he Germans being there, it was not until the Allied Countries decided to fund terrorist organizations (they were called Partisans those days) that things started to get bad.
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Partisans were not terrorist, they only attacked the German military. terrorist attack anyone including their own.
 
Switzerland was an ally of Germany, official or not, German troops and trade went right through Switzerland, lots of German gold was stored in Swiss banks and the most glary fact, the Swiss build more bombs for Germany than Germany did, but the allies could do nothing because we did not want to violate their neutrality.

And plus the Swiss made impossible requirements for the Jews to get their possessions back after the war.
 
Yeah the Swiss where in a good position to have some power at the end of WW2 since they had alot of gold stored in thier nation.
 
The Swedish would have joined the Germans because they were already making tanks for the axis and Finland was an axis, and norway was half and half. Sweden would have seen the neibgours mostly on the axis so they would have joined Germany.
 
CanadianCombat said:
The Swedish would have joined the Germans because they were already making tanks for the axis and Finland was an axis, and norway was half and half. Sweden would have seen the neibgours mostly on the axis so they would have joined Germany.
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What do you mean by Norway was half and half? Quisling was a puppet - Joseph Therboven ran the show and he was made Reichskommissar on April 24, 1940, when it became clear that a more authoritarian administration was needed. Quisling's coup d'ètat was a disaster politically speaking for himself.

Sweden had thight connections to both Germany and Norway, Swedish iron ore was shipped to Germany through the port of Narvik. Many jews, resistance personell and other refugees fled through Sweden to England but as well many were turned back to face German captivity.

It might be said that the 400.000 men German army in Norway had influence on Swedish politics but in my opinon Sweden would have stayed neutral but played their cards as best suited.
 
Simple answer, they all would have sided with Germany. Sweden because they were surrounded on multiple sides by axis nation, Turkey because of their hatred for Russia, Spain because their government recieved aid from Germany and was already in the process of making an alliance, Switzerland was pretty much another german annexation, towards the end of the war more munitions for the war effort were produced in Switzerland than Germany and Finland would have joined the axis because Russia attacked Finland early in the war, got their asses kicked, then returned again later to take a few baltic ports.

Finland never really was part of the axis powers, they attacked Russia to get back the lands taken earlier but stopped advancing once they reached the old border.
 
Whoever would have done what is moot, the atomic bomb scared the shit out of the rest of the world, making up a lot of minds very quickly. I don't trust any of them when the cards are down. Especially Russia.
 
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