What if you were Hitler

I think that was his point Marc. :)

I kill myself

I would stop and consolidate what i had before war started and build up the navy and technology. Secondly, i would export National Socialism to other nations and create more allies converting/developing South America, and Turkey. I would enlist Stalin into a future war against UK granting him spheres of influence in Persia and India. I would do anything to get USSR bogged down into a war with UK/India about 2 years before i was ready for war. The timing would depend on Italy and her developments toward gearing for war ( around 1943). No war would start before we had a huge military advantage over everybody. The progress of the war would follow what happened with the focus on taking and sealing off the Medd and the Suez from UK, taking Malta, Gibraltar, providing safe passage for further campaigns against British assets in Africa/ Middle East.

Russia would be invaded at the best moment, when her armies are fighting in India/middle East enlisting my new ally, Turkey with the promise of land gains as she had during the Ottoman period.

Once Russia was defeated, i would again consolidate my gains and prepare for war again against UK and USA with an enlarged navy and enough subs to totally blockade USA/UK

@Imperious:

I would stop and consolidate what i had before war started and build up the navy and technology. Secondly, i would export National Socialism to other nations and create more allies converting/developing South America, and Turkey. I would enlist Stalin into a future war against UK granting him spheres of influence in Persia and India. I would do anything to get USSR bogged down into a war with UK/India about 2 years before i was ready for war. The timing would depend on Italy and her developments toward gearing for war ( around 1943). No war would start before we had a huge military advantage over everybody. The progress of the war would follow what happened with the focus on taking and sealing off the Medd and the Suez from UK, taking Malta, Gibraltar, providing safe passage for further campaigns against British assets in Africa/ Middle East.

Russia would be invaded at the best moment, when her armies are fighting in India/middle East enlisting my new ally, Turkey with the promise of land gains as she had during the Ottoman period.

Once Russia was defeated, i would again consolidate my gains and prepare for war again against UK and USA with an enlarged navy and enough subs to totally blockade USA/UK

looks promissing IL ,how are you dealing with France and Greece in the meantime? and how would you deal with the Oil problems Germany had?

As a person who enjoys acting, and engaging in total-persona, I don’t think I can fairly answer this question without getting indicted for a hate crime lol…

@Razor:

I kill myself

Don’t you remeber Red ALert. That would insure Papa Joe’s rise to power.

Also we would have lost out an MANY serious technolgical Acheivements

@KrisBeKreame:

@Razor:

I kill myself

Don’t you remeber Red ALert. That would insure Papa Joe’s rise to power.

Also we would have lost out an MANY serious technolgical Acheivements

Hmm…

60 million lives + 70 years of children.

vs

Some serious technology…

What a Kunundrum to be in! LOL…

looks promising IL ,how are you dealing with France and Greece in the meantime? and how would you deal with the Oil problems Germany had?

The Soviets, Hungary and Romania would export under new trade agreements where participants would receive land grants in say Yugoslavia and Greece. Other oil would come from sending a proper force to Africa and taking it from British influence. The goal is to make as many partners in crime as possible with the goal of further isolation of UK.

When the war starts ( about 1943) France would be dispatched in the first year, Greece would be after.

In the case of France, i would be more proactive in seizing her post-defeat fleet.

The only issue was if the French government was going to extend the Maginot wall to the channel… I think they would not have the funds in time.

Also, the total waste of resources for the Final Solution would be used for labor camps building war material in our factories. Under no circumstances would we be dealing with ghettos or killing people for racial reasons.

@Imperious:

Also, the total waste of resources for the Final Solution would be used for labor camps building war material in our factories. Under no circumstances would we be dealing with ghettos or killing people for racial reasons.

What about political opponents?

What about political opponents?

They go back to Canada and freeze.

If I were Hitler in 1940 I would convince all the subhumans in East Poland, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Baltic states etc that I was there to liberate them from Jewish Bolshevism, be nice and turn them to my side, and use them to kill Stalin and the Reds.  Then with the power vacuum and ensuing civil war I would promote various nationalist and ethnic movements to get them fighting amongst themselves.  Let the civil war reduce the slavic population by a few tens of millions and then when they are are their weakest I would sweep in with the SS to finish the job.  Finally, once all my enemies are dead I would kill my friends.

Germany represented the pinnacle of success in the summer of 1939.  In the arts, technology, the socioeconomic arena……in just about everything, Germany stood at the forefront of the world.  I would not have gone to war.  Instead, I would have been happy with the fact that I changed Germany from a broken, failed state into one of the world’s economic powerhouses.  I would have enjoyed this success and continued to strive for a better tomorrow for all Germans.  I would have made all of Speer’s little models onto a reality.  I would have worked for a better world…one led by German’s example, not by it’s destruction.

Well the Nuremberg laws didn’t help Germany socially or culturally for the world, but aside from racial policies it can be argued Germany was looking promising from 1933.

@Pacific:

Germany represented the pinnacle of success in the summer of 1939.  In the arts, technology, the socioeconomic arena……in just about everything, Germany stood at the forefront of the world.  I would not have gone to war.  Instead, I would have been happy with the fact that I changed Germany from a broken, failed state into one of the world’s economic powerhouses.  I would have enjoyed this success and continued to strive for a better tomorrow for all Germans.  I would have made all of Speer’s little models onto a reality.  I would have worked for a better world…one led by German’s example, not by it’s destruction.

I would have shot for this.

But I think the reality, from reading the political climates at the time, is that Europe was due for war one way or another…

YG, if you could postpone war until 1943 (let’s assume that’s possible), as IL suggests, would you take control of Hitler before the invasion of Poland and trade the unbelievable tactical success of that campaign for the strategic success of not being at war?

Part of all of the “everything known in retrospect” is that we know for sure what the British and French reaction to the invasion of Poland is – Hitler believed that they would cave and continue to appease him.

If we are, indeed, framing the hypothetical after Germans had boots on the ground in Poland, I’d have to wonder what the climate would look like if Hitler made a pact with Stalin that he intended to keep. London falls and the US has to stand alone against the combined might of Japan, Germany and its little puppet to the south, and the USSR.

Capture the British at Dunkirk, do no aggression against England, build fighters and radar, work on a nuclear bomb, and leave Russia alone!

If Germany delayed the war to 1943, URRS would have conquered all east Europe, maybe even Norway, Hungary, the Balkans…

If I were Hitler…
After capturing Paris I’d try to make a deal with UK: Dear UK, we give back France to the French for free as kong as we ceasefire and you two join the Axis for a better Europe.

If they accept… next target is Russia.
If they refuse… France will know that UK betrayed them, then I woild still offer them liberation to fight together the UK. I’ll try to focus all on UK.

I like il 's quote “once russia was defeated” makes it sound so easy

I would declare il a war criminal and eradicate his dna from the planet