re gun control proud to be a canuck frank crary fcrary ucsu colorado edu wrote in article pqsruinniae hp col col hp com dduff col hp com dave duff writes the swiss population is and well was far larger than that i think your question should be losing sleep over a million expert riflemen certainly he could have conquered switzerland but a million armed militiamen especially in a mountainous area where tanks effectiveness is limited would have made it a real pain the question a conqueror would ask is is it worth the trouble the more difficult an invasion is the more likely the answer would be no certainly a million riflemen as opposed to a professional army of only ten or twenty thousand the best a country the size of switzerland could support makes invasions more difficult hitler invaded yugoslavia and occupied it the mountainous portions were sometimes patrolled by the wermacht but they were certainly not in control there were two major native factions opposing each other and the germans it was basically useless to the germans no production and a drain on their resources a armored division and a couple of infantry divisions which if my memory is correct were kind of stuck there up until the allies accepted their surrender i think that the allies also let the germans keep some of their weapons for self defense unitil they were able to get to the lowlands away from the resistance factions this is from memory and it is unreliable dale farmer
