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To: central_va

A win of Barbarossa would have resulted in a redoubled hot war on the Axis’ western flank since that meant the eastern front was secured. Neither Hitler nor Churchill (already at war for two years prior) would have sued for peace in such an eventuality. Wins emboldened Hitler rather than made him settle for any sort of “cold war” situation.

The Allies were in fact convinced that Nazi Germany could have achieved atomic breakout before the war actually ended, particularly due to the fact that it was in 1938 that German scientists discovered how to induce nuclear fission (hence missions like Operation Big). Should Hitler have secured the whole continent, he would have had the time to produce atomic weapons far more rapidly, and he would have used them.


49 posted on 11/08/2019 10:36:53 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
I've read about the Nazi effort to make an atomic bomb. It was pathetic. They almost perfected the delivery system (V-2) but starved the nuclear weapon development part. I think the Japs were further along with the bomb than the Krauts.

In Mein Kampf Hitler conceded the the British Empire was no threat to the Reich in the sense the part of the world controlled by British imperialism were not on the Reich's radar.

50 posted on 11/08/2019 11:08:23 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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