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Hitler's Plan to Attack America (Why Hitler Jumped at War With U.S.)
History News Network ^ | December 11, 2013 | Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg

Posted on 12/11/2013 5:51:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Gerhard L. Weinberg is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
1 posted on 12/11/2013 5:51:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; a fool in paradise

Amtrak trains would have run on time, and you’d never hear about Hussein Soetero!


2 posted on 12/11/2013 5:52:58 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

He was outraged over a youtube video.

(Hal Roach Presents) The Devil With Hitler (1942) PT. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWc_vEYiepk


3 posted on 12/11/2013 5:55:01 PM PST by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hitler would have had to take Mexico and force them to fight us. They would have lost anyway but if they had tried to put German soldiers on American soil the bodies would have piled so high they he would have been driven from power.


4 posted on 12/11/2013 5:55:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I always thought that Japan and Germany had a mutual defense treaty which required either one to declare war if any country declared war on either.


5 posted on 12/11/2013 5:57:19 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Revolting cat!

Small compensation.


6 posted on 12/11/2013 5:58:40 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: Revolting cat!

No, under Mussolini the trains did not run on time. Mussolini lied.

And Hitler had Germans murdered in their sleep. What do you think they would do with Americans?


7 posted on 12/11/2013 5:58:59 PM PST by donmeaker
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To: cripplecreek
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

~Abraham Lincoln, Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838

8 posted on 12/11/2013 5:59:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not unlike Montana attacking the US. Germany is about the size of Montana.


9 posted on 12/11/2013 5:59:28 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I remember back in the 60’s I think a magazine, Life or Look I think, printed a rather half baked plan for the invasion of the United States and there was a map how Germany and Japan would divide the country, basically the Pacific Coast and Mountain West going to Japan.


10 posted on 12/11/2013 5:59:38 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: donmeaker

Hittie (may I use a term of endearment?) wasn’t the only one there.


11 posted on 12/11/2013 6:00:35 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Interesting, but nothing new. Hitler would rather have fought the U.S. while it was in a two-front war, hence he waited for the right moment. The U.S. up until our current traitorous administration has maintained since then the need to be able to engage in a two-front war.


12 posted on 12/11/2013 6:00:48 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Bears repeating.
13 posted on 12/11/2013 6:01:13 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The pro German sentiment in this country was a lot greater than you would think from reading the books. There was not a strong desire to go to war with Germany.

Although we would have inevitably gone to war against Germany, I wonder how long it would have taken had Germany not declared war on the US.


14 posted on 12/11/2013 6:03:16 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: yarddog

Japan initiated hostilities, Germany was not obliged to bail them out. In the event, Hitler might feared that the U.S. would finish off Japan and then turn on Germany. Official American policy at the start of the war was to devote 80% of our resources to Europe and 20% to the Pacific. After Midway, the Pacific got more resources, but it was still largely a side show from the bigger war. If the U.S. only had to take on Japan, we would really have steamrollered them, and been left with a big well oiled military machine and an unsinkable aircraft carrier, HMS Great Britain.


15 posted on 12/11/2013 6:03:40 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

There was a pretty solid anti war sentiment that died a quick death with the attack on Pearl Harbor.


16 posted on 12/11/2013 6:06:05 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The V weapons were the obvious solution to his problem
fortunately his clock ran out.


17 posted on 12/11/2013 6:06:27 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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18 posted on 12/11/2013 6:06:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wilson dragging us into WWI was such a tragedy.


19 posted on 12/11/2013 6:07:04 PM PST by DManA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A bunch of silliness.

Hitler desperately wanted Japan to attack Russia. That is the ONLY reason he declared war on America.

Hitler built only a handful of truly long range bombers and gave up building ONE aircraft carrier. He could not have invaded America even if he defeated England and Russia had had no enemies. It was logistically IMPOSSIBLE for Germany without a decade of a build-up.

To overcome these practical obstacles Hitler built up the German navy and began work on a long-range bomber -- the notorious Amerika Bomber -- which would be capable of flying to New York and back without refueling. Although the bomber proved difficult to construct, Hitler embarked on a crash building program of superbattleships promptly after the defeat of France. In addition, he began accumulating air and sea bases on the Atlantic coast to facilitate attacks on the United States.

20 posted on 12/11/2013 6:07:46 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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