[Miss Marple]

You know, this makes me remember an article in one of the Sunday newspaper magazines from my childhood. This would have been in the mid-50's or so, because I read it myself, and the illustrations impressed me.

Apparently (going on my memory here so please bear with me) there was some sort of invasion plan cooked up by Hitler and the Japanese. They had a plan to divide the occupation of the US at the Rocky Mountains..everyething west of the Rockies would be administered by the Japanese, everything east would be run by the Germans.

Of course, in the mid-50's the memory of the war was still recent, so there were still articles focussing on how dangerous Hitler was, and perhaps this was a fantasy or an exagerration. However, as a child, let me tell you that the map they showed left a HUGE impression on me, if I could remember it all these years later.

[VadeRetro]

I just want North America. You can have Europe.

[buccaneer81]

Your memory sounds like a book I read in the late '70s. It was a novel called The Divide and it was as you describe. The Japanese hit the West coast (Patton was defeated in the Mojave Desert) and the Germans hit the Canadian Maritimes and New England on Christmas Eve 1941. The climax of the story was an elderly Hitler and Tojo meet at The Divide in 1976. But the American partisans are ready for them.

[chilepepper]

My old neurons woke up when you mentioned "magazines"...

I remember back in the early sixties a Life magazine (or it may have been the Saturday Evening Post) article with a map of the US w/ the swastika on one side and the rising sun on the other... never read it though since i was only about eight at the time and completely uninterested in such things...