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Originally Posted by jefelump
Your source is hardly comprehensive. From the same url you provided:
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uh what?
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As stated above, the report you're citing as a rebutal to wmbwinn was done under a mandate of examining the financial system. I did a quick search on the word "military" on that site, and I couldn't find it. So this is a very well focused report, which mentions nothing of the military of Germany or it's strategies.
So perhaps you'll concede there were other reasons beyond the banking system?
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no, there are 25 seperate studies. you must have not looked very deeply.
were there more than just the financial system? sure, there is the fact that switzerland doesn't really possess any natural resources that would help the german war effort. it also was neutral, so it didn't present any threat to germany.
but its role as a financial conduit was most contributory in its protection.
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That is just one of several sources where you can find information on German military matters. Hitler was absolutely concerned with the high number of German casualties, and wmbwinn is absolutely correct in his statement of such.
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nope, in fact the crux of the swiss defensive theory was titled "reduit concept", which in essence meant that the swiss army woud rapidly withdraw to the mountains rather than confront and try to stop a german invasion. the swiss army would engage in guerilla tactics from the mountains, launcing small concentrated actions.
iow they wouldn't use this supposed mass numbers of firearms to stop a german assault, hence there would not be a "high number of casualties" suffered by the germans during an invasion.
nice try tho...