There were some attempts but like you say the majority were not by the Allies.
What if? Historical Scenario
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There were some attempts but like you say the majority were not by the Allies.
Just out of curiosity why would the Americans have had nuclear weapons? It's my understanding that a large amount of the decisive work was done by German scientists using captured German data.
If the Americans hadn't captured all those scientists then I can't see America having nukes at all.
If the Americans hadn't captured all those scientists then I can't see America having nukes at all.
isnt that the rocket and jet engines? Not nukes...?
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I've got a 'what if?' for you...
What if English/British people ever got over the second world war and moved on?
(I know it's not likely to happen, but what if?!)
What if English/British people ever got over the second world war and moved on?
(I know it's not likely to happen, but what if?!)
No, Hitler was intent on taking over the world. So eventually it would have boiled down to war with the USA, which he would have lost.
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Yeah I remember watching a documentary about the Pacific theater of operations and the Japanese commanders were absolutely ruthless, I know a lot of their soldiers died from starvation, dehydration, malaria, and pretty much all the other tropical diseases going. I think the Russians pushed the Japanese out of Russian soil a few times, possibly before Barbarossa was put into action as well but that might not be accurate.
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Link.
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Indeed. Had von Stauffenburg not been spooked while priming his bomb and waited a few more seconds to charge the second block of explosives in his bag, the oak table would not have saved Hitler.
The scene was re-enacted on the History Channel recently with the two blocks used instead of the one and an explosives expert and doctor at the scene examined the aftermath saying that no persons would have survived the blast and Hitler would have been killed.
Germany would have become the most powerful country in Europe, with the other lesser countries reliant on her...
Oh.... wait!
There were in fact 42 attempts on Hitlers life, only 3 or 4 of those were very very close to killing him. In fact one was so close its virtually a miracle that he survived, and as such he though he was divine, and was following the way of god. How ironic.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/42-ways-to-kill-hitler-3522/Overview
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/42-ways-to-kill-hitler-3522/Overview
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True, but they would have probably been drop by Germany on the US. They were already in advance stages of Nuclear weapons development towards the end of the war. They were streets ahead of the rest of the world in military technology.
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I was implying, flippantly, that nothing would be different because Germany is the most powerful nation in Europe now despite the actual outcome of the war.
It's one thing to drop Atomic bombs on the civilian population of the same country you're at war with but another to drop them on a civilian population the enemy is occupying.
I wouldn't be so sure that they would lose. With the riches of the middle east and the superior armed forces of germany, I really think its a war the usa would lose.
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