Posted on 11/07/2019 4:56:33 PM PST by Olog-hai
Germany already declared war on the USA in 1941. If they had assimilated the power of the USSR into their own (and frankly, Stalin’s ideology was more national socialist than international socialist), it would have been a hot war.
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I had seen a thread, and in it a FReeper pointed out that the statue, since it’s on embassy grounds, is technically not in Berlin.
But facts won’t stop the media from pushing their agenda.
Nazism did not contain within it the seeds of its own destruction like communism did. They would have been a stronger and thus worse enemy than the Commies were.
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I believe in Mine Kampf Hitler even predicted the cold war being divided into three “zones of influence” with the USA controlling North and South America, Japan controlling East Asia and Germany controlling Europe and Russia west of the Urals). We’ll never know but my contention the cold war would have been about the same just substitute Germany and the Reich for the USSR and the East Block. One side note The Reich would have made it to the moon first, those bastards.
Like history records, Hitler insisted on a hot war with the USA, no matter what he had said in his earlier writings (he also originally said that he merely wanted Jews out of Germany IIRC). And if he had held onto the nuclear scientists we got out of Germany, we could have seen an atomic holocaust too.
He wins Barbarossa, peace with the UK and let the cold war begin.....PS: The Krauts were a decade away from a ‘bomb’ in ‘42.
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.
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.
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