Why did the Nazis make no attempt to invade Spain Portugal Sweden and Switzerland?

Answer 1

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The Spanish government was a fellow Fascist regime which had come to power thanks to German aid during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Franco decided not to come into the war on Germany's side but remained a friendly neutral. Portugal was of no strategic importance and besides, Spain lay between it and German controlled territory. The Swedes were nordics against whom Hitler had no racial emnity, control of their territory was not strategicaly important (unlike Norway) and, as a neutral, they provided a buffer between German and Soviet forces in Scandinavia. The Swiss were also a Germanic people whose neutrality made it difficult for an allied thrust up the Italian peninsula to reach Germany, beside which they could be expected to fight very hard and their mojntainous territory would be difficult indeed to attack. Michael Montagne

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They didn't make any attempts to invade Sweden, but they had planned to do so.

The reason why they didn't attack is simple, they needed their troops elsewhere.

Spain had just gone through a bloody Civil War that lasted three years. The Spanish army was combat experienced, Spain was a military state still, and Franco had re-enforced the Spanish French border. The Pyrenees mountains also acted as a natural defense. Franco also supplied Hitler with Iron and Steel and to some extent troops. Mainly some 40,000 volunteers know as the Spanish Blue Division, who fought on the Eastern front up until 1942.

Answer 2

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because the Russian already had and the Germans were worryed more about the main part of Russian power

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Sweden remained neutral throughout WWII. It was not invaded by any country.

Answer 3

The Germans needed them not to go against them even if they were a neutral nation. They wanted some of their Natural Resources in the mountains bordering Norway as I understand it but I don't think they went after them. Many Jews fled to Sweden to hide from the Germans. The Nazis did enter Norway for a while but the King Carl Gustav of Sweden managed to boot them out of his nation.

Answer 4

first answer:

Because the Germans new that they couldn't defeat Switzerland because Switzerland has a very good army like Sweden. (No offense to any country or person or thing or continent.)

correct answer:

Both Switzerland & Sweden were neutral, but more importantly they were pro-German and assisted Germany in various ways before & during the war. Sweden was the primary source of high-grade iron ore to Germany. It was used to make steel. This was essential to the German war effort. Sweden extracted the iron ore from its mines in northern Sweden, sold the ore to Germany and then delivered the iron ore to Germany with Swedish merchant ships. As long as Sweden delivered this material to Germany, then Sweden was relatively safe from German invasion. It is likely that Hitler would have seized Sweden after winning the war. Sweden had a moderate military defense capability, but would have been easily defeated by Germany. Sweden had been sheltering some European Jews, and Hitler would then have a way to exterminate them also.

Switzerland provided financial & diplomatic resources to Germany, and by June 1940 was totally surrounded by the Axis. Switzerland was not a threat to Germany, and did not withhold any assistance until late in the war. A German invasion would not have gained anything for Germany at the time. Switzerland did not possess natural resources that Germany needed. Like Sweden, Switzerland would most likely been "cleaned-up" by Hitler after the war, despite Switzerland's military capabilities.