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Originally posted by Wickd89
My wife is Swiss and every single man in her family has a gun (big deal). They too skipped WW2.
Swedes are pretty cool, and your women are awesome (I have worked with Ericsson a lot). The fact that your country was not even a consideration for invasion during WW2, stresses the countries ability BE neutral through even difficult times.
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That's revisionist history.
The Swiss profited handsomely from their "neutrality". And they only reason Hitler didn't take Switzerland was because it suited him. It certainly wasn't - as the Swiss would have you believe - because of the fearsome Swiss military.
As for Sweden, it's neutrality suited Hitler and it was of no strategic significance. Besides it was pretty firmly in his pocket, and "why buy the cow when the milk is free?"