Wouldn’t there have been at least a few battles before they conquered us? Those would have been interesting, considering that our entire economic system had been organized around cranking out weapons and ammunition at an incredible rate.
“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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