These Were Hitler's Plans For The U.S. If He'd Won WWII

Why Hitler thought it was a good idea to kick the sleeping giant that was the U.S. is complicated, but let's look ahead a bit. He's not really known for his forward-thinking and his planning ahead, but surely, there must have been some plans in place for a Nazi victory...right? What, exactly, did Hitler plan to do with the U.S. if he happened to win...

In recent world history, few individuals are so synonymous with the idea of evil than Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 (via Britannica) and architect of the Holocaust. Under his rule scores of people endured brutality and persecution, simply for being part of a racial, ethnic, sexual, or religious group that Hitler and the Nazis deemed undesirable...

Justifiably, much has been written about America's World War II Japanese internment camps and the systemic racism that spawned them. Less well known are the prisoner of war camps that sprang up in rural communities across the country to house combatants from Europe and Japan. Although the POW camps opened and closed with little fanfare...

The Western Front of World War I had been at a stalemate for four years and cost the nations involved millions of lives. In 1939, when Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland, both sides feared that the Anglo-French pledge to aid their ally would lead to a repeat of this destruction. Instead Hitler's Wehrmacht completely defeated France in...

The outcome of World War II is universally agreed to be one of the most — if not the most — defining events of not only the 20th century but of all human history. These everlasting effects have led many historians, alternate history writers, storytellers, and others to fantasize about the world that might've been if the Axis powers had indeed won that infamous war...