Hitler owned book hints at his plans for North America once the Nazis invaded it
Spooky
They have all these Science Fiction stories like The Man in the High Castle, the Wolfenstein video games, or several Harry Turtledove novels. But it sends a chill down the spine to know the Nazis actually had plans for North America.
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It will make me more comfortable. I like to spend time like that and
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The US was lucky our technology was ahead of Hitler's - Radar was a big edge on knowing where the Luftwaffe were (plus their limited fuel range over target.) and the ocean that forced him to give up on invading England. Cracking the enigma code, and sonar helped, but there certainly were dark days in the 1941 1942 days.
History could have turned out differently, which gives Man in High Castle some serious cred.
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Invade, occupy, and hold North America? They couldn’t even take the UK. And that was only 11 miles across the English Channel.
It was less technology which won the war (though it did greatly affect the aftermath) than it was about manpower and industrial capacity, both of which the Axis greatly suffered in.
Lots of people have pipe dreams - great plans which go unfulfilled. Why should it be surprising that Hitler did the same?
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Hitler (very fortunately) made several big mistakes. Not the least being switching targets from British airfields and strategic infrastructure to terror bombing population centers in later 1940, the invasion of Russia, declaring war on the USA, etc.
And if he'd started the war with 40 more U-boats, things would have gone WAY worse for the British.
But he still couldn't have invaded the USA, nor could Japan. Not without eroding the tremendous lead in industrial capacity, which would have taken a decade at least, and a sluggish reaction from the USA.
Not to spoil the alternate historical theorizing, it's a hobby of mine actually. ;D
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CFMNH44
The US was lucky our technology was ahead of Hitler's - Radar was a big edge on knowing where the Luftwaffe were (plus their limited fuel range over target.) and the ocean that forced him to give up on invading England. Cracking the enigma code, and sonar helped, but there certainly were dark days in the 1941 1942 days.
History could have turned out differently, which gives Man in High Castle some serious cred.
The fighter escorts were based in France, and took off the same time as the Germany based bombers, and orbited waiting for the bombers. By the time the bombers arrived the fighters barely had gas to get across the channel and back.
The bombers kept switching targets. They would bomb one thing for a while and when they started having effect, switched targets.
Bad Planning.
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Djoser
Hitler (very fortunately) made several big mistakes. Not the least being switching targets from British airfields and strategic infrastructure to terror bombing population centers in later 1940, the invasion of Russia, declaring war on the USA, etc.
And if he'd started the war with 40 more U-boats, things would have gone WAY worse for the British.
But he still couldn't have invaded the USA, nor could Japan. Not without eroding the tremendous lead in industrial capacity, which would have taken a decade at least, and a sluggish reaction from the USA.
Not to spoil the alternate historical theorizing, it's a hobby of mine actually. ;D
Also, after hitler enacted anti-Jewish laws in Germany, many of Germany's top scientists and physicists who were Jewish or had Jewish spouses, fled the country. Many of them helped the U.S. build the atomic bomb. If they had stayed in Germany, perhaps Germany would have built one first.
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eagle2
Also, after hitler enacted anti-Jewish laws in Germany, many of Germany's top scientists and physicists who were Jewish or had Jewish spouses, fled the country. Many of them helped the U.S. build the atomic bomb. If they had stayed in Germany, perhaps Germany would have built one first.
Einstein for one, who later said he regretted writing the letter to Roosevelt telling him such a bomb could be made.
A lot of people love nothing better than to debunk alternate historical theorizing, but so much of history was hanging by a thread.
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slowpoke
The bombers kept switching targets. They would bomb one thing for a while and when they started having effect, switched targets.
Bad Planning.
And impatience. Had Hitler stuck with trying to gain air superiority by continuing to bomb the airfields, factories, etc., he might have made an invasion possible. The English fleet would probably have sacrificed itself trying to prevent the invasion, if their response to the invasion of Crete and their aggressiveness at sea in general is any indication. But they needed that fleet, and they sure didn't need an invasion with the Luftwaffe controlling the air.