You know how gun rights people bring up Switzerland a lot?

[Kidlicious]

Also, the Polish fought a guerrilla war against the Nazi's, and they were not exterminated.

[molly bloom]

Ah, the Jews didn't put up any resistance.

All evidence to the contrary. Jews were partisans too, and even at Treblinka Jews fought back. Go back to your Bible study, you do need it.

[giblets]

Also, the Polish fought a guerrilla war against the Nazi's, and they were not exterminated.

The Nazis planned on killing off 85% of the Poles. They just didn't have enough time to finish the job.

Himmler's Generalplan Ost (General Plan East), which was enthusiastically agreed to by Hitler in the summer of 1942, involved exterminating, expelling, or enslaving most or all Slavs from their native lands so as to make living space for German settlers, something that would be carried out over a period of 20–30 years.[288][289]

William W. Hagen wrote:

Generalplan Ost . . . forecast the diminution of the targeted east European peoples' populations by the following measures: Poles – 85 percent; Belarusians – 75 percent; Ukrainians – 65 percent; Czechs – 50 percent. These enormous reductions would result from "extermination through labor" or decimation through malnutrition, disease, and controls on reproduction. . . . The Russian people, once subjugated in war, would join the four Slavic-speaking nations whose fate Generalplan Ost foreshadowed.[290]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust#Non_Jewish

[Kidlicious]

Someone hasn't seen Schindler's List.

[Kidlicious]

The Nazis planned on killing off 85% of the Poles. They just didn't have enough time to finish the job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust#Non_Jewish

Indeed. They were never able to, and never would have been able to exterminate the Swiss, who by the way were not slavic.

[giblets]

Indeed. They were never able to, and never would have been able to exterminate the Swiss, who by the way were not slavic.

They weren't able to because the militaries of the Soviet Union, the US and the UK defeated them. It had nothing to do with civilian weapon ownership or guerrilla warfare.

[Kidlicious]

They weren't able to because the militaries of the Soviet Union, the US and the UK defeated them. It had nothing to do with civilian weapon ownership or guerrilla warfare.

Ah yes, gribbler. If Germany would have concentrated all it's resources to exterminating the Swiss they probably would have been successful.

[kentonio]

The Germans had no intention of wiping out the Swiss, a lot of whom they considered German. That doesn't change the fact they would have killed them like rats if they'd resisted. You just torpedoed your own argument by pointing to the Polish resisting btw Kid. The potential for Polish resistance had no effect on Germany's decision to invade, and did very little to prevent the occupation.

[giblets]

Ah yes, gribbler. If Germany would have concentrated all it's resources to exterminating the Swiss they probably would have been successful.

Yes, it was technically feasible for something like the Holocaust to happen to the Swiss.

[Kidlicious]

The Germans had no intention of wiping out the Swiss, a lot of whom they considered German. That doesn't change the fact they would have killed them like rats if they'd resisted. You just torpedoed your own argument by pointing to the Polish resisting btw Kid. The potential for Polish resistance had no effect on Germany's decision to invade, and did very little to prevent the occupation.

Wanting to exterminate guerrilla armies is easier said than done, especially in a mountainous region. Of course they would have exterminated them, but that's not to say that that would be any easy thing to do. Good night, Hitler probably even understood that after his generals informed him of it. Poland is a much easier region to conquer than the Alps. Duh.

[Kidlicious]

Yes, it was technically feasible for something like the Holocaust to happen to the Swiss.

Duh

[kentonio]

Wanting to exterminate guerrilla armies is easier said than done, especially in a mountainous region. Of course they would have exterminated them, but that's not to say that that would be any easy thing to do. Good night, Hitler probably even understood that after his generals informed him of it. Poland is a much easier region to conquer than the Alps. Duh.

When did his generals inform him of it? Which generals? Details please.

[giblets]

Wanting to exterminate guerrilla armies is easier said than done, especially in a mountainous region. Of course they would have exterminated them, but that's not to say that that would be any easy thing to do. Good night, Hitler probably even understood that after his generals informed him of it. Poland is a much easier region to conquer than the Alps. Duh.

Wanting to exterminate guerrilla armies is easier said than done, especially in a mountainous region. Of course they would have exterminated them, but that's not to say that that would be any easy thing to do. Good night, Hitler probably even understood that after his generals informed him of it. Poland is a much easier region to conquer than the Scandinavian Mountains. Duh.

[Kidlicious]

You're actually assuming that his Generals never told him about invading Switzerland? You are ridiculous.

[Kidlicious]

Wanting to exterminate guerrilla armies is easier said than done, especially in a mountainous region. Of course they would have exterminated them, but that's not to say that that would be any easy thing to do. Good night, Hitler probably even understood that after his generals informed him of it. Poland is a much easier region to conquer than the Scandinavian Mountains. Duh.

Do you have any understanding of Cost/Benefit analysis at all?