What if hitler invaded sweden

Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. Log in. Install the app. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. WI: Germany invaded Sweden in Thread starter arneanka74 Start date Mar 30, What would happen if Sweden were to be invaded by Germany in ?

My opinion is that there would rather easy to overrun the Swedish army, but in order to occupy Sweden, vast forces would have to be commited to occupation duties. Would it be an easy task to invade the 4th largest country in Europe by then? Soviet, Germany and Spain being larger. Grey Wolf Gone Fishin'. The combined forces of the Swedish Navy and Airforce would have put up a better display than the Norwegians did, and the Germans would need to either get lucky with their divebombers against the coastal defence ships, hit them with u-boats, or defeat them in a full-pitched naval battle Best Regards Grey Wolf.

The combined forces of the Swedish Navy and Airforce would have put up a better display than the Norwegians did, and the Germans would need to either get lucky with their divebombers against the coastal defence ships, hit them with u-boats, or defeat them in a full-pitched naval battle. Click to expand I dont see a real problem there. If we managed to crush France single handedly, with arguably the most modern army at that time, i dont see any threat posted by Sweden.

Back when Command magazine was publishing, it had an alternate-history game XTR did a lot of those about "Operation One-Two", the planned invasion of Sweden in The accompanying article said that it almost did go off, but was called off due to, among other things, the Allied invasion of Italy.

I believe the game also had a scenario for an invasion of Sweden during the campaign, and the article had a lot of data on the Swedish armed forces of the period. Surely Sweden would fall to the Wehrmacht, but the forces required to occupy and control Sweden would still be huge.

Furthermore, opening a new front to the USSR could become a serious problem since it would not be a new front, Finland attacked the USSR, but only a drainage of men to control a country bigger than Poland. There's a reason that the nazis did not make it to the Swedish Riksdag. Furthermore, the only land connection to Sweden would come from Norway, which implies that in order to invade Sweden, the Wehrmacht would have to transport enough soldiers to Norway by boat, making them a great target for the Royal Navy.

Didn't Sweden also have some kind of navy capable of at least posing a threat to an amphibious assault on southern Sweden? Monty Burns. While i think about it, the swedish industry might even contribute quite a deal to the axis war effort. To begin with the invasion of Sweden by Germany would create all sorts of problems for the Germans.

To begin with the Swedish military establishment was a lot larger than the Norwegian one. Sweden did have tanks. They had purchased Czech designs and had already begun production of them. Remember a lot of German weapons were first produced in Sweden. To have any reasonable chance of success the Germans would have had to have taken a lot less naval loses during the campaign in Norway and would have to take a risk that the Swedish government would not destroy or heavily damage the iron ore mines.

It would be a big risk and one that would require a diverison of resources from any campaign against the West.

The mines would have been destroyed, there were complete plans and explosives to do that and Hitler knew it. It really depends on how and when the Germans do it.

If they do it at the same time as Norway and Denmark, they will have a lot of problems. Their navy is not big enough to take out Sweden as well as Nroway in one big strike - Norway was extremely lucky, Sweden has far more population, mobilisation centras and industry inland, and most ports are protected by archipelagos that requires manouvering in narrow channels - which takes time.

If they do it at the same time as Norway and Denmark, both Norway and Denmark have the ability to fight longer and harder. Some Danes actually retreated to Sweden in April , convinced Sweden was under attack and they could help even if Denmark fell. The Norwegian 1. Division retreated into Sweden in April and was interned. If Sweden is at war, it will be re-supplied and ready for action soon again, which means the Germans cannot advance up the Lillehammer valley to relieve the troops at Trondheim.

The Swedish army was not a superb force in , but it was way, way, way better than the Norwegian army, and the Germans had serious problems with the Norwegians at Narvik.

A regular Swedish soldier had at least days training the Norwegians had 85 , more if he was an NCO or an officer Norway, 85 days here too. Most had done at least extra days by then. Norway had none of these. Sweden had roughly men in the army, plus another in the Home Guard. The army had plenty of LMGs, decent amounts of MGs, plenty of medium 81mm mortars, decent AT capacity rather good amount of AA lacking in heavy and light, but good amounts of 40mm bofors.

The army had learned as much as it could from the Winter War and the volunteers there and had been training hard since November In field units: 48 MG armed tanks. V used for recon. Many Swedes also helped by harbouring Norwegian refugees in their homes and helping them cross the border, but Henrik Berggren says that while there are a few stories like this, there are also many stories that put Swedes in a less flattering light. We certainly didn't help out. The Norwegian king was turned away at the border.

People helped. You can certainly find examples of both ordinary people and policemen and border guards who did and who had great sympathy for the Norwegians, but you can also find people who were, maybe not sympathetic with the Nazis, but very bureaucratic and not willing to bend the rules to help. Not only had Sweden chosen not to assist its neighbouring country, but it was soon uncovered that Sweden had even let armed German troops use the railway network to fight the Norwegians.

In the years after the war, the relations between the two countries were strained and Berggren says that it took decades to repair the relationship. Over the years it has been overcome to some extent, but it does appear. When Olof Palme spoke out against the Vietnam war in the 's and made these comparisons with Nazi terror a Norwegian journalist commented saying 'This is all fine, but where were you in the 's when the Germans were committing these atrocities in Norway?

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