[AveMaria]

>>>When it comes to invading the U.S. the ultimate problem isn't getting past the U.S. military, it's dealing with the 80 million snipers once you're there.<<<

You are right about that. I took that into account.

That is why I was wondering if he could have gotten some co-operation from part of the population, such as anti-New Deal midwesterners who revered Robert Taft, and the South.

He could have offered them self government, without Germans troops on their streets.

[Tokhtamish]

If you look at Gallup polls of the 1939-1941 period, you see that pro-Allied sentiment is strongest in the South and weakest in the Midwest.

And as for South America, Argentina and Brazil were deep rivals. If Argentina takes one side, Brazil will take the other. White Argentina sympathized with the Axis while largely Black Brazil fought on the Allied side. But Argentina was making too much money as a neutral commodity exporter to jeopardize a good thing by entering the war on the Axis side.

The US and only the US could have come up with an atomic bomb. Considering the enormous cost and risk of the project, it could only be proposed by scientists confident that they would not be shot if it failed. Beria point blank told Sakharov that if he succeeded he would receive the Order of Lenin but if he failed he and his team would be shot. I don't think Heisenberg ever actually explained to Hitler how much a German Manhattan Project would cost. I don't think he wanted to take on that kind of responsibility. In a police state, who would ?