{"id":98001,"date":"2025-09-21T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98001"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:18:54","slug":"why-didnt-hitler-invade-switzerland-ootf-community-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/21\/why-didnt-hitler-invade-switzerland-ootf-community-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn\u2019t Hitler Invade Switzerland? &#8211; OOTF Community Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hOhUKBPyWu0?si=9DQF7j6nfOqNl3ZW\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>World War Two<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 20 Sept 2025<\/p>\n<p>In this Out of the Foxholes Q&#038;A, Indy and Sparty dive into some of the most intriguing questions about World War Two. Why didn&#8217;t Hitler invade Switzerland, what was going through the minds of the German High Command as defeat loomed, and why didn&#8217;t the Germans use the Vichy French Army in Operation Barbarossa? 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