Why is the safest place to be "Switzerland" when the Third World War?

We publish various educational video contents on YouTubeRealLifeLoreHowever, as a result of "World War III occurred, the reason why the safest place is Switzerland" is released.

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Switzerland is a small Europe of Europe, surrounded by four countries, France, Germany, Austria and Italy. The area is 42,120 square kilometers, mostlySize as big as Kyushuis.


If you make a map called "EU member country list", you can have one unassigned chunk in the center of Europe. This is Switzerland.


Switzerland is famous as "neutral country" anyhow. Not only did it not join the EU, it was not part of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and it was not a member of UN (United Nations) until 2002.


It is not Date that puts on "neutral country", and has never fallen into war state alone for more than 200 years.


Lastly, we caught up in the war dating back to the era of Napoleon. 1815 is the time after the Napoleonic WarVienna conferenceIt is the year in which Switzerland was approved as "eternal permanent neutral country".


Why was it located in the center of Europe and was able to be "safe land" even when surrounded by militant countries?


The answer lies in geographical factors. Switzerland can think of its land in three parts.


Sudden in the southern partAlps Mountains (Swiss Alps)There are big mountains on the border with Italy and Austria.


In the northwest there are mountains in the 1000 m class which are not as good as the AlpsJura MountainsIt has a borders with France.


It is sandwiched between themSwiss plateau.


There are hills and rivers, and most of the population of Switzerland lives in this area.


The capital city of Bern, and the major cities Zurich and Geneva are both located in this plateau. However, it is by no means suitable for defense.


Switzerland has a part that is considerably nervous about the invasion of other countries.


The first reason for that was that, during World War II, Germany passed the Belgian territory, which was a neutral country, in order to gain advantage in attacking France.


Second, in the Second World War, Switzerland will be surrounded completely the Axis powers, it was exposed to the threat of invasion of Nazi Germany.


After all, the invasion of Switzerland by Nazi Germany did not occur, but during the Cold War it was necessary to prepare for the Soviet invasion.


As a result, Switzerland launched as a plan to prepare for all invasions was "National Fortress(The National Redoubt) "was. By the way, Nazi Germany thought at the end of World War II "Alps National Fortress"It is different.


This is the idea to give up as saying "Let's go to another if you attack Switzerland".


For that purpose, a mandatory system is mandatory, and all men in Switzerland are to receive basic training for 170 days.


Even after completing the training, the rifle is to be kept at home, and in case of emergency it is said that the system capable of mobilizing more than 200,000 reserve soldiers within 72 hours is prepared.


Infrastructure facilities such as bridges, roads, and tunnels are made to be destroyed remotely so as not to be used by invaders. The number is actually more than 3000 places.


The meandering mountain road is said to make landslide by the blast and make it impossible to pass.


Switzerland's basic strategy is to abandon major cities in the Swiss plateau and to "battle casket" in the southern Swiss Alps.


More than 26,000 locations in the AlpsBunkerAnd fortified position are established, and it is equipped with antitank cannon and anti-aircraft gun etc.


As anticipating guerrilla-like fighting, anti-tank guns are installed in a camouflaged state.


In this building, the left side is the machine gun position, the right side is the anti-tank gun position, the two are connected underground.


Such a facility is present throughout the Alps ... ... that the country of Switzerland itself is like a big booby trap and it can be described as being "an impregnable castle" in the center of Europe. This is the reason why Switzerland has claimed "an elders neutral country" and actually kept neutrality.


However, now all the countries around Switzerland become EU member states, it is unlikely that they will invade Switzerland.


For that reason, we switched the policies that were stubborn in Switzerland, decided to make a bridge or position established as a "National Fortress" into a museum, or decided to reduce the number of soldiers that can be mobilized from 200,000 to 80,000 by 2020 I will.


Meanwhile, preparations for the past have made Switzerland safe even when global nuclear warfare occurs.


Switzerland is the only country that possesses a nuclear shelter that can accommodate the entire population. Its capacity is actually 114% of the population.


The building after 1978 is stipulated as "to make a shelter that can withstand 12 megaton class nuclear explosions at 700 meters".


The number of shelters as of 2006 is 8.6 million people, up to the tunnel of the subway where 2,000 people can get over 4 months from the size of ordinary houses.



Therefore, RealLifeLore says that it would be the cockroach and the Swiss citizens to survive if a global nuclear war occurred.