Hitler's plans for the United States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler began their political careers at about the same time, generously promising radical reforms to their voters to bring their countries out of crisis.Hitler knew very little about the United States of America. Early ideas were based on the background of political gossip, which he overheard in pubs and restaurants, and also read in newspapers. In the thirties, he maintained acquaintance with people who deserved his trust, who often visited the American continent. One of them was Kurt Ludeke. Driving around the States, Kurt found out that German Americans and members of the Ku Klux Klan did not want to support the Nazis. He also concluded that there are almost no cultural traditions of their own in America, Americans are convinced that their army is invincible, and among them there is a strong influence of the Jews who seized Wall Street. Hitler listened to his conclusions, as well as the stories of Ernst Ganfshtenglya, choosing from them only what seemed important to him. Freedom of speech, the dominance of the Jews, capitalist materialism, he clearly did not like him. Why, he just despised Americans.
“Americans,” declared Hitler, “are people with chicken brains. This country is a house of cards, built on a shaky foundation of material well-being. Americans live like pigs, albeit in a very luxurious pigsty. ”
He considered an irreparable mistake, the departure to America of millions of Germans, who, in his opinion, made up the backbone of the whole nation.
Hitler declared: “To the East, and only to the East the eyes of our race should be directed; nature itself shows us this way. Strength of character is forged only in a healthy climate. Transfer the German to Kiev, and he will remain a real German. Transfer him to Miami, and he will become a degenerate, in other words, an American. ”
The only thing that fascinated Hitler was the achievements of the American automobile industry and architecture. The Embassy in America regularly sent him photographs of various city structures. He admired Henry Ford, Volkswagen was founded in imitation.
In the early thirties, the United States of America did not pose any threat to Germany, so in historical There is no clear evidence in the documents that Adolf Hitler was planning a war with the United States.
In April, 1939, Hitler stated that “rumors circulated everywhere that Germany is about to attack or occupy America are the most common fakes and coarse lies. Such rumors, if viewed from a military point of view, can only be generated by a sick imagination. ”
However, it should not be forgotten that the main goal of fascist German imperialism is the conquest of supremacy throughout the world. Germany successfully used separate lightning campaigns with long pauses to restore and increase strength due to the defeated enemy. The fascist German leadership had a clear and precise strategic concept of world war. Analysis of the documents of the Wehrmacht reveals some successive stages of its implementation.
1. The capture of the small countries of Europe in order to improve the strategic and economic position of Germany for the subsequent war.
2. The defeat of France and England in order to capture Western Europe and build up the industrial power of the new empire.
3. The defeat of the Soviet Union and complete domination in Europe.
4. The conquest of Africa, the Middle East, Australia.
5. Capture of the USA.
The final goals of the fascists were delivered by Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler in October 1943: “By the end of this war, when Russia will eventually become exhausted or will be eliminated, and England and America will not endure war, the task of creating a world empire will arise for us. The war is being waged in order to establish the German world empire. This is the meaning of war, no matter how long it lasts - five, or maybe six or even seven years. ”
Tensions between the US and Germany escalated into a “cold war” after the Nazis occupied Prague in March 1939. Of course, the Führer knew perfectly well that in the event of war, the United States would stand up for European countries, and perhaps they would provide economic assistance.
In 1941, Hitler wrote to Mussolini that "behind the backs of two great powers (Great Britain and the Soviet Union) the United States is hiding, and they are not at all inactive."
Nevertheless, Hitler was convinced that the United States would not participate in the war in Europe, and its help was only a cover, hiding America’s own imperial ambitions. He had a very dismissive opinion about the American army. Showing off to the Japanese in April 1941 of the year, Hitler said that the German soldier, without a doubt, is much better than the American, and not a single Yankee will be able to set foot on European soil.
Some sources claim that Hitler began preparations for a war with the United States, back in the thirties, by ordering the Messerschmitt plant to develop aircraft capable of long flights without refueling. The best of these was the ME-264, which could cross the Atlantic. Unfortunately, there was not enough fuel on the way home. Think of Hitler to attack the US, and the September 11 tragedy could well have happened at that time.
However, it is impossible not to deny the fact that German spies in America constantly conducted ideological subversive activities aimed at destroying society from the inside. It is possible that Hitler hatched the idea of a revolution in the States. Special sabotage groups made plans to destroy the largest enterprises for the production of military equipment. Very high was the activity of Germany in Latin America. The Germans constantly tried to discredit the States in the eyes of South Americans. Conducted powerful propaganda in Brazil, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Uruguay. Brazil, located near the Panama Canal, at the sea gates of Peru, could be used as the central base of the Germans. From a secret map obtained by American intelligence, it became known that Germany wanted to create 14 vassal states from the 5 countries of Latin America. Although, maybe this is just fiction.
In November 1940, Hitler was interested in the Azores. "This is the only base for attacking the United States," he explained. “From here, long-range bombers could take off for strikes on US territory.”
His attention was attracted by Iceland, which could be used as a transit point in the Atlantic Ocean. But, in anticipation of this, the Americans placed military units on the island.
When the war with the Soviet Union began, President Roosevelt declared that the defense of the USSR was a vital necessity for the defense of the United States. He informed Churchill of his intention to welcome Russia as an ally. A similar position was supported by wide sections of the English and American peoples. At the end of 1941, the Japanese defeated Pearl Harbor, and on December 11, Germany declared war on the United States. From this point on, all German propaganda begins to work to blacken the United States, the American leadership, and in particular Roosevelt.
“This is a country in decline, torn apart by racial and social inequality. I like Europe a thousand times more. America only makes me hate and disgust, a semi-Jewish, semi-Negro country, where everything is based on the power of the dollar, ”said Hitler in 1942 year.
But the main blow of the Germans was nevertheless directed at the Soviet Union, and while the issue with the Russians was not resolved, he left the Japanese and his the fleet. It is worth noting that the Fuhrer was never an admirer of the naval forces of his power and did not understand its problems. He believed that the role of the navy is only to support ground operations. The commander of the entire German submarine fleet, Karl Dönitz, said that for the Fuhrer, the war at sea was incomprehensible and terrible.
The Fuhrer himself admitted: "On land, I am a hero; at sea, I am a coward."
While in the European stronghold, Hitler hoped that the war with Japan in the Pacific would distract the main forces of the Americans and reduce their defenses. Therefore, sea problems did not bother him. In the Atlantic Ocean, the entire burden of the war with America fell on the shoulders of German sailors. And the German fleet was not ready for it, as it was considered a secondary branch of troops. All the admirals' requests for military operations and attacks on the supply of goods, a continuous stream coming from the US to Europe, Hitler forbade, because he was afraid to provoke the United States to respond. And then the well-known Operation Overlord followed the landing of the Allied forces in Normandy and the opening of the Western Front. The war with the United States ended with the capitulation of Germany in 1945, a week after the death of the leaders of both countries - Hitler and Roosevelt. The Fuhrer’s plans for America were never developed and implemented. The accusation of Germany in the attack on the United States was considered unproven.
Hitler's Secret Plan: Attack on America (Germany) 2005 Year
Director: Christoph Weber
Hitler's delusions of grandeur knew no bounds: from the very beginning of World War II, Nazi military strategists were developing plans to attack the United States. The bravest of them suggested a massive raid on New York by German fighter planes, which, as "live bombs", were to crash into the skyscrapers of Manhattan. The world experienced the full horror of such an attack more than fifty years later, 9 September 2001. Hitler considered New York to be the "epicenter of the Jewish capitalist conspiracy" and wanted to destroy it.
With the help of eyewitness accounts and archival materials, the program tells how the US government became aware of the secret intentions of Hitler and managed to prevent their implementation.
Director: Christoph Weber
Hitler's delusions of grandeur knew no bounds: from the very beginning of World War II, Nazi military strategists were developing plans to attack the United States. The bravest of them suggested a massive raid on New York by German fighter planes, which, as "live bombs", were to crash into the skyscrapers of Manhattan. The world experienced the full horror of such an attack more than fifty years later, 9 September 2001. Hitler considered New York to be the "epicenter of the Jewish capitalist conspiracy" and wanted to destroy it.
With the help of eyewitness accounts and archival materials, the program tells how the US government became aware of the secret intentions of Hitler and managed to prevent their implementation.
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