-
In past decade, various WHAT-IF scenarios have been forwarded on how Germans could have successfully conquered Soviet Union within 1941-1943 timeframe. If Germans secured its Eastern Front, then military resources can be immediately reallocated to combat Western Allies in North Africa and Mediterranean fronts. 1944 Allied Normandy D-Day invasion would have extremely difficult to accomplish if Germans repositioned majority of its Panzer Divisions from Holland down to France. D-Day - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-day
-
One scenario centered on German conquest of Moscow in Dec 1941, thereby forcing Stalin and his Communist entourage to flee eastward towards the Ural mountains. Some argued Soviet Communist bureaucracy was highly centralized compared to Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy or Spain. By forcing Soviets to abandon Moscow in essence would have collapsed their command-and-control of its armed forces and political commissars nationwide. Although Soviets forces/reserves outnumbered Germans to the level of 14 million to 3 million, without centralized control these forces could be destroyed piecemeal. Moscow - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
-
Another scenario concentrated on recruiting neutral countries to join German cause. Italy,
Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania were German allies
during the war, they contributed troops in the Stalingrad salient battles. Turkey remained neutral throughout the war. However, some speculated that if Turkey joined the Germans to gain territory in the Caucasus region, it would have block Allied supply routes coming into southern Soviet Union from Iran.
-
Rollover : Turkey
would launch northern offensive into Caucasus towards
Baku (major oil terminal on Caspian Sea), catching Soviets
in a pincer. They would also blocked British reinforcements from Iraq
and Iran (at that time under British colonial influence). Encircling Soviets at Caspian seaport of Astrachan,
bulk of German armor forces could then be diverted northward to cut-off
enemy reinforcements on east bank of Volga River across from Stalingrad. Baku - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku
-
Still another scenario depicted a failed 1944 Allied Normandy invasion, thereby resulting in western Allies suing for separate peace with Germany. Germans then shifted military resources to Eastern Front and conquered Soviet Union. By 1960s, pro-Nazi US administration of
President John F. Kennedy established a strong police state to control dissidents and foment good economic relationship with Nazi Germany. The European Jewry Holocaust was rumored since WW2, but substantial facts have yet to surface. Although fanciful, it is based
on some semblance of historical fact. The Holocaust - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust
-
Fall 2002, The
History Channel aired The
Kennedys - Corruption of Power documentary. Program stated Joseph Kennedy Sr. (father of John, Robert, and
Edward Kennedy and kingpin of Kennedy Clan) was appointed US Ambassador to Great Britain in
1938 by President Franklin Roosevelt as a means to get politically ambitious Kennedy "Out of Town" (thus avoid political competition with Roosevelt). Kennedy being of Irish-descent (written in original Gaelic language as Ceannaideach, meaning "The Ugly-Headed"), were sympathetic to Irish independence movement and to German Nazi regime
since it offered centralized state control of industrial resources, concept of which appealed to business-savvy Kennedy clan.
-
By 1940 Kennedy became distraught when President Roosevelt shifted US foreign policy from neutrality to tacit support for Great Britain in her war against Germany. Some historians stated Kennedy was a pure neutralist, yet others asserted he feared looming war would destroy his political-financial empire and draft his sons in battle for which entire Kennedy generational line may be lost. In Nov 1940 when asked by international press concerning
his pro-Nazi sentiments, Kennedy tersely replied that "democracy
was dead" and that US should make amends with Germany. Controversy
erupted immediately, British government - Civil
Libertarians - Jewish Groups forced his resignation as US ambassador.
From that point onward, Joseph Kennedy Sr.
faded from public attention until his death in 1969. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kennedy
-
Similar
fate also fell upon another American folk hero : Charles Lindbergh. He too professed his anti-war sentiments by resigning from US Army Air Corps, accused American-Jewish
groups of pushing US towards war, and professed his admiration
for German technical accomplishments. US President Roosevelt retailated by denouncing
Lindbergh as Pro-Nazi and refused to allow him to re-enlist in the military when US joined the war in 1941. When WW2 ended, he lived a private
life in Hawaii away from public view until his death in 1974. Charles Lindbergh - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh
-
In 2003,
DNA evidence verified that Lindbergh fathered 3 illegitimate children with Brigitte Hesshaimer of Munich-Germany in 1960s. Additional allegations state he had 2 additional children with Brigitte Hesshaimer's sister Marietta, and another two children with his German private secretary, identified only as Valeska. Some speculate his infidelity was to guarantee perpetuation of Lindbergh line after kidnapping and death of his firstborn in 1932. Lindbergh 'fathered two families' - news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3249472.stm
-
Third
Reich Victorious : The Alternate History of How the Germans Won
the War ( ISBN: 0-7394-2643-5 ) 2002
|