Only nine European nations found themselves capable of officially maintaining a stance of neutrality throughout the entire war:
These were Sweden, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Vatican City, San Marino and Switzerland.
Also what was Turkey doing?
>>51499466
We were improving the siesta.
>>51499466
How was Sweden capable of staying neutral during WW2 when the other Nordic fought?
>>51499466
>Also what was Turkey doing?
arming rebels against assad with usa.
>Alliance with Germany again
We didn't want to get involved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Turkish_Non-Aggression_Pact
>>51499531
>fought
Only Finland fought much of anything...
>>51499466
Spain wasn't allowed to join the Axis. Franco offered, but the other leaders were afraid that his unconventional war style would actually hinder them.
They invader Algiers, but that was it.
Ireland kept out, but dealt weapons with the Allies and to be fair, helped us out with spies.
>>51499466
>Also what was Turkey doing?
both sides pressured turkey to join their side. also most turkish politicians wanted to side with germany, our ww1 ally. president inonu resisted. we stayed neutral.
>>51499531
by selling iron to Germans
>>51500394
>Swedish """neutrality"""
>>51500394
i read somewhere they didnt let nordic refugees in. is this true?
>Implying we joined because we wanted
>>51500649
No it isn't.
Not that we could have stopped them if we wanted, have you looked at the Swedish-Finnish border?
>>51500649
>>51501002
We sent a ton of children to Sweden for the war. But our government regretted that decision later because of the harm it caused to the children.
Also some Swedish families essentially kidnapped the children they were aiding (never sent them back)
>>51501002
Swedish-Norwegian*
>>51500649
It got easier and easier after the winner was decided.
>>51499531
By helping the Germans invade Norway.
>>51501353
Actually Sweden sheltered refugees from day 1 and even harbored jews in defiance of the nazis, something switzerland didn't have the balls to.
>>51500134
We didnt invade Algiers during those years... Also, Hitler was the one who offered Franco to join, and he refused to do so since the civil war had just ended, the country wasnt ready for going into another war. He helped Hitler by sending some infantry divisions for Wehrmacht to the eastern front and a division for Luftwaffe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Division
>>51501453
The boat was full m8
>le swedes are devils meme
pls
we're basically the nicest, most humble and best people on earth.
>>51502753
>most humble and best people on earth.
people are going to miss this little kek of yours Sven, it;s American prime time soon.
>Estonia gets occupied by the Soviets, later Germans invade
>Young men flee to Finland as the don't want to fight for the commies nor the nazis
>Fight for Finland
>1944
>Soviets threaten Estonia
>They come back to fight for Estonia
>They fail to create the Republic of Estonia
>Nazis offer to fight for them of be killed
>Accept the offer as they don't want to die
>Forced to fight in Slovakia
>Fuck it, lets go to the American zone and surrender to them as we hate the nazis as well
>Get captured and shot by Czech resistance fighters
>>51502753
Yes, it's actually true. You saved many Estonian lives during the war. Thanks for that.
>>51502817
Thanks for Kristian Luuk. He's very good on På Spåret.
>>51499466
Selling weapons to everyone.
