Posted on 04/10/2019 6:05:12 AM PDT by vannrox
Family members who fought in World War II told me they weren’t sure at the time that our side would win...
Stalin turned on the people who put him in power.
Those people ran away and went to the USA.
Now they rule the USA but sometimes there are flukes, like Trump.
So they scream about it, which explains everything we’ve heard from the media, especially for the last two years.
Yes Hitler if he had more patience could have wrung what oil he needed out of a cooperative Romania & from deals with Russia.
There were flaws in the plan, and the generals would know better than Hitler, but he had help; the invasion of the USSR involved armies came from many countries threatened by Bolshevism: Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Italy provided much of the forces as well.
They did collaborate with Stalin up until the invasion itself (that is why Stalin refused to accept the news of it); Stalin provided Germany access to training and testing areas that the Versailles Treaty forbade. You are correct that it made no sense while Britain was still free...
“Wouldn’t there have been at least a few battles before they conquered us?“
Humphrey Bogart to Major Stroesser in Casablaca: “There are a few places in Brooklyn I’d advise you not to invade.”
Had the Nazis invaded the East Coast every single Yankee would have been in the field with a scoped rifle shooting the Wehrmacht in job lots, formal surrender or no. Same thing on the west coast. The Japanese wouldn’t have made it out of California.
Between 1941 and 1943 the US produced 25,000 tanks. Had that production remained in the US we would have crushed the enemy like bugs. Since the vast majority were made in Detroit neither Japanese or German aircraft would have been able to reach them at all.
That’s not to mention the unbelievable number or rifles, machine guns, mortars, and the trainloads of ammunition. The only possible way they might have succeeded was if they got the A bomb first. But Hitler made that impossible as he’d run the best physicists out of Germany in the 1930s. He disparaged what he called “Jewish mathematics” and refused to believe any of it.
Their experiments with heavy water were a dead end.
The article also assumes that America would have sat on its collective hands while Hitler built up his military capabilities. That would not have happened.
So this article is a fairly interesting thought experiment the conclusions are more than quite a bit off IMO.
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Japan tried to gobble up China and choked on it.
Germany tried to gobble up Russia and choked on it.
They couldn’t even get it together to invade tiny England so the whole question is a moot point.
All of Stalin’s trucks and 80% of his ammo was provided by FDR:
If you simply remove the USA’s piggy bank from Stalin’s math, then the USSR either goes away totally or at the very least communism would have been confined East of the Urals.
Japan’s Kwantung army would probably have done fine in China, though in this altnernatve history it’s hard to say when they might have had to face Stalin in the East. But China’s development, like that of Taiwan (long occupied by Japan), probably would have come at a much ealier point.
PRC/Taiwan friction would probably now be a non-issue.
No Hogan’s Heroes is a depressing concept.
If things were different, they wouldn’t be the same.
Did you know the actor who played Colonel Klink from Hogan’s Heroes was Jewish, and he was a concerto violinist..?
His whole family must have had a real laugh when they learned he landed that particular role.
Hitler wouldn’t need to invade America. Hitler could have waited a few decades and watched the democrat party evolve into fascists, as they are today. But he would have never anticipated that American democrat fascists hated personal weapons, couldn’t find the right bathroom and lived in mommy’s basement. That alone would’ve doomed Hitler’s plan to conquer America.
What if America was conquered by the Communists in the 1960s?
Oh wait. It was.
It was much closer and nip and tuck than people realize. But for a few strategic blunders Hitler may well have prevailed. Other nations have since taken notice and are leveraging our weaknesses...complacency and internal political and ideological corruption.
It was much closer and nip and tuck than people realize. But for a few strategic blunders Hitler may well have prevailed. Other nations have since taken notice and are leveraging our weaknesses...complacency and internal political and ideological corruption.
All of main German guys were Jewish in HH.
I guess to answer the question:
England would be captured, then Iceland, then Greenland, then the Azores, then Bermuda and Bahamas, then Cuba. The British fleet would have to be destroyed or better yet captured.
There would be no chance for Japan to come over. The closest solution would be no troops in China (freeing up a million soldiers) and they would have to go through Alaska. All the Pacific islands including Hawaii would have to be in Japanese hands. Japan just didn’t have the transport capacity.
A luger or Walther pistol would accent even more.
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