Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-32656-20140709090115

He hated communists otl. And "hating" the French and Brits would not have gotten him anywhere.

Operation Green, impossible for pretty much the same reasons as Sealion. Add even more distance, and no chance of air cover, even temporarily. Even more impossible than Sealion, imo.

It is likely that any invasion of Switzerland by the Nazis would have turned out just as badly as invading the USSR. Ideal defensive terrain, a population better armed than the USA, long history of resistance to outside forces, main entrances into the country rigged to blow, basically mobilized and well-equipped. Add to that the banks - was more convenient economically to have the Swiss neutral, really, making such an attack not going to happen. Ample evidence, however, that it would have been a death knell if they tried.

Best-case for the Nazis there would have been a worse version of Yugoslavia, with a bloody conquest first. Worst-case for it, something more akin to how Barbarossa turned out.

Business Plot is exaggerated a great deal. Barely any proof it existed in any form, quite frankly. Realistically, there was never any talk of a coup - that is just how Butler interpreted it - and there is little evidence that it even smacked of fascist thinking.

Wrong, GB. Very wrong, imo. That post means you've not seen a bloody thing said on this page. Your scenario went off the rails in the sixth sentence, ffs.