But why has Switzerland become such a unique country? This is due to many reasons. First of all, Switzerland is a mountainous country, with a total of more than 40,000 square kilometers, which is slightly larger than Taiwan Island, and there is almost no flat land.
They are all mountainous areas, and they are very high mountainous areas. The average altitude in the country is more than 1,350 meters. The most famous of them is the Alps, which is a popular ski resort in Europe.
In addition to the difficult terrain, the special land environment has made the Swiss mountain nation very tough, brave, and unyielding. Moreover, Switzerland does not have a strict military service system, but this does not mean that there are no soldiers in Switzerland. On the contrary, all Swiss people are soldiers.
All Swiss residents, men, women and children, must receive a certain amount of military training every year, and every Swiss family has standard weapons. Therefore, in the event of a war, there will be as many soldiers as there are residents in Switzerland.
Moreover, the Swiss have built a large number of military facilities and fortifications in these mountainous areas. For the Swiss who live in the mountainous areas all year round, it is very easy to use these fortifications and terrain to resist foreign aggression. But for the armies of other countries,
He said that this country with complex terrain, full of fortifications, and difficulty in deploying heavy equipment is really a nightmare.
Finally, Switzerland has another advantage, that is, Switzerland's machinery manufacturing industry is very developed, especially precision machinery manufacturing, such as watches. You can imagine that if a person can make watches so precise, guns and other things can
Is it inferior? Therefore, Switzerland still has its developed military industry and is self-sufficient in weapons. It does not ask for help.
Generally speaking, the Swiss took advantage of the unique geographical environment to build their home into a mountain fortress, embedded in the middle of Europe like an iron projectile. No matter who wanted to take a bite, they would have to break a few teeth.
Therefore, as long as there is no deep hatred and sworn hatred, no country is willing to provoke it, and it has truly become a neutral country.
In addition to Switzerland, the eastern part of Germany is Hungary and Poland. Hungary has become an ally of Germany, needless to say, while Poland is a loyal ally of Britain and France. The reason why Poland emerged after World War I.
It was to suppress the development of Germany. Half of Poland was separated from Germany after World War I. It also included East Prussia, the cradle of the German Army. Germany was bound to win this country.
However, since Poland is a country fully supported by Britain and France, it is impossible to occupy it peacefully like Austria and Czechoslovakia. If you want to annex Poland, you will definitely have to use force. And once Germany uses force against Poland, Britain and France will definitely not be like that again.
If you tolerate Germany's behavior as before, then what Germany needs to face is war.
However, Mustache does not intend to let Poland go because he is worried about the threat from Britain and France. For his dream of building a self-sufficient Greater Germany, Poland must be included in Germany. But Germany needs to be wary of Britain and France in the west.
, there is a larger country to the east that it needs to find a way to deal with, and that is the Red Soviet Union.
If we directly invade Poland like this, the three congresses of Britain, France and the Soviet Union may declare war on Germany. In this case, Germany will face the dilemma of fighting on two fronts. Mustache must find a way to avoid this problem. How to avoid it? Mustache is very
Fortunately, because the Soviet Union is not very peaceful at the moment, Stalin began to
He began to launch a great purge throughout the Soviet Union. Those generals and party leaders who were not completely loyal to him were arrested and shot under various names. At present, the Soviet Red Army has lost a large number of experienced high, middle and low-level commanders.
The personnel and strength suffered a great loss, and Stalin himself knew that the current war with Germany would be very detrimental to the Soviet Union.
One did not want to fight and the other did not want to fight. The two sides hit it off immediately. In August 1939, the two sides signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" in Moscow. In the treaty, the two sides made it clear that they would not use force against each other alone or in conjunction with other countries. It also stipulated that
If a Contracting State engages in activities with a third country, the other Party shall not assist the third country; neither Contracting Party shall join any organization or group that is harmful to one Contracting Party.
The treaty is limited to 10 years, but when they signed the contract, Mustache and Stalin probably did not take this deadline seriously. Mustache did not want to start a war on two fronts, and Stalin’s domestic position was not yet stable. To put it bluntly, this treaty was like
For a temporary armistice agreement, when the war will start depends on the development speed of both sides.
In addition to this treaty, Mustache also signed a secret agreement with Stalin, which roughly meant dividing the spheres of influence of the Soviet Union and Germany in Northern Europe to avoid the possibility that changes in other surrounding countries would affect the relationship between the Soviet Union and Germany.
treaties between. One of them is about Poland
Yes, both the Soviet Union and Germany agreed that Poland should be managed by them, roughly bounded by the Narew River, the Vistula River and the San River, with Germany in the west and the Soviet Union in the east. This solved the worries of a two-front war, Mustache
Immediately there was no scruple, and two days later the German army began to attack Poland.
At this time, after several years of preparation and recovery, Germany's military strength was already very strong. With Liu Fu's help, the German Army had 9 armored divisions and more than 4,500 tanks out of a total of 106 divisions, including replicas of the South China Sea Federation.
There are more than 2,000 "Panther" medium-sized tanks. Because the paint of this tank is blue and black, the German Army calls it "Panther". In addition, the German Army also has 13 mechanized divisions, which is called "modern cavalry" in German.
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In addition, with the help of the federation, the German Air Force became the most advanced air force in Europe at that time. It had a total of about 5,000 fighters, bombers and transport aircraft, which was far more than the aircraft of Britain, France and Poland combined.
At that time, France deployed 86 divisions on the Maginot Line, while Germany only had 33 divisions and 500 aircraft on the Siegfried Line. According to Mustache's orders, these 33 divisions were only used to prevent France from launching an attack on Germany.
Yes, as long as the French don't take action on a large scale, these 33 divisions on the Western Front will have to endure it.
Compared with the 33 divisions on the Western Front, Germany invested most of its main forces in Poland. Its intention was very obvious, that is, before Britain and France could react, they would solve Poland in the shortest possible time, which was behind Germany.
The thorn in the back, then turned around and concentrated on dealing with France and Britain.
Germany's attack on Poland was divided into two groups, the Northern Group and the Southern Group. The Northern Group had more than 600,000 troops and the Southern Group had more than 800,000 troops, totaling more than 50 divisions. Of the 9 armored divisions of the German Army, 6 were concentrated.
In Army Group South, it is divided as the main force of the offensive.
Encircling the Polish army, and Army Group Northern has 11 divisions located in the East Prussian enclave and is surrounded by the Polish army. Therefore, the main operational purpose of Army Group Northern is not to divide and encircle the Polish army, but to open up the connection between Germany and East Prussia.
Prussian contacts to support the 11 divisions.
As for Poland, it had not yet thought that Mustache would be so desperate to attack Poland, so there was no pre-war mobilization and deployment. Although Poland has more than 40 divisions, more than 800 tanks, more than 4,000 artillery pieces and more than 1,000 aircraft
Planes, but when the German army suddenly appeared in Poland, the Polish army was unable to organize an effective defense under the surprise attack of hundreds of German tanks, and the battle line often collapsed at the first touch.
The tanks of the German Army did not entangle with these defeated Polish troops. They just rushed to the next line of defense. All the cleaning work behind was handed over to the mechanized infantry divisions following the tank cluster. Those who followed the tank cluster in armored vehicles
The German army behind them is truly Poland
The army's nightmare: pursued by armored vehicles and fired by large-caliber heavy machine guns, the fleeing Polish defenders were unable to gain enough time to regroup. They could only run around the defense lines like rabbits being chased by hounds.
In the end, they were exhausted, beaten to death, or chose to surrender.
At the beginning of the war, the German Air Force adopted the Federal Air Force model, flying hundreds of bombers in formation, and directly carried out large-scale bombings on Poland's heavy industrial cities and the capital Warsaw. The unprepared Polish Air Force even had a small number of fighter jets take off.
Fighting against them would not pose any threat to the cluster of bombers, because the firepower on the bombers was very fierce, and with many bombers flying together, there was basically no blind spot. No matter which direction the Polish fighter jets approached, they would be hit by intensive firepower.
