Why didn't Hitler attack Sweden?

Answer 1

The simple rason: He got EVERYTHING he wanted from Sweden! He got his troops movement through the country, no questions asked. And so on. Sweden had alot of 'friendly toughts' about the Nazis during the war. Even as high up as within the royal family, not to mention all the industrialists, who saw Germany as a business partner!

Actually, it was, at one time, forbidden for Swedish newaspapers to publish anything negative about Nazi-Germany!

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Answer 2

The reason Hitler invades Norway, in April of 1940 is to prevent the British doing so. Why ? Because in winter the Gulf of Bothnia is frozen & Hitler needs Swedish Iron Ore for War production. There is a rail link from the orefields to Narvik in northern Norway which is ice free all year round.... Iron ore is the reason why Hitler leaves Sweden as Neutral. Switzerland is small & innoffensive and has great wealth stored in their banks.... Spain was pro German: Quite why Gibraltar remained as an important British naval base at the gateway to the Mediterranean is not known to me.... I suppose the Spanish needed Neutrality so soon after the Civil War there. Portugal was Pro British in some ways & outside Hitlers reach. Britain was within his reach in 1940: At least so it appears. The Battle of Britain changed that, had the Luftwaffe gained local air superiority then it might, I say might, have been a practical possibility, a landing at the least, but the Royal Navy was too great to allow this (Probably) to become a realistic prospect.

Answer 3

Probably because strategic gains did not outweigh the costs for invading and occupying the country:

1. Denmark and Norway were strategically more important facing the North Sea and the Atlantic.

2. Sweden's neutrality ensured continued deliveries of important raw materials from the mines in northern Sweden. An attack could actually risk this, as the mines would probably have been destroyed.

Probably because strategic gains did not outweigh the costs for invading and occupying the country:

1. Denmark and Norway were strategically more important facing the North Sea and the Atlantic.

2. Sweden's neutrality ensured continued deliveries of important raw materials from the mines in northern Sweden. An attack could actually risk this, as the mines would probably have been destroyed.

Answer 4

Sweden was a neutral country at the time, and wasn't expected to be aggressive.

for this reason Germany went rigt by them, knowing they would be easy to collect later.

also, to have invaded a neutral county would have triggered an immediate response from the "league of nations" although that is far less of a reason

Answer 5

So He could get lots of land and he could be the leader

That's what we think But Luckily he lost! Im Nashy