“Americans are people with chicken brains. This country is a house of cards built on the shaky foundation of material prosperity. Americans live like pigs, albeit in a very luxurious pigsty. This is exactly what Adolf Hitler said about the people of the United States. The only thing that admired the Fuhrer in America was its architecture and the automobile industry, which was embodied in Hitler's personal friend Henry Ford.
Relationships before World War II
The leader of Nazi Germany believed that the Jewish capital, having seized Wall Street, completely subjugated the US leadership. The resettlement of millions of Germans to the North American continent Hitler called the greatest tragedy of the German nation. Hitler was sure that a strong character is formed in a healthy climate, and on this occasion he said: “Take a German to Kiev, and he will remain a real German. Take him to Miami and he becomes a degenerate, in other words, an American."
Despite the criticism, a good relationship developed between the United States and Germany, based on business cooperation and the interest of Americans to invest in the rapidly developing economy of the Reich. In the spring of 1939, Hitler said that rumors about Germany's desire to occupy the territory of the United States were a lie and a provocation that could only be born in a sick imagination.
Relationships after 1939
The discord between Berlin and Washington occurred after the German occupation of the territory of Czechoslovakia. In 1943, the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, assured that after the defeat of the USSR, England and the United States would definitely be defeated and the Reich would have the task of creating a world German empire. A number of historians claim that Hitler began planning the future conquest of North America in the 1930s. For example, he ordered his designers to develop combat aircraft that could fly over the Atlantic Ocean without refueling.
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The best example was the ME-264, which could fly to the shores of America, but it did not have enough fuel for the return trip. The Fuhrer was also convinced of the Yankee's inability to fight, and in 1941 he boasted to the Japanese allies that no American would land in Europe.
Preparing for war
After the United States entered the war, Hitler said that America is a half-Jewish, half-non-German country, where everything is based on the power of the dollar, disgusts him. This state is in social decline and is torn apart by racial and social inequality. Therefore, the Fuhrer hoped for a revolution in the United States.
Hitler and the top of the Nazi party dreamed of a world empire, and it was impossible to create it with an independent and strong United States. To weaken Washington, Germany actively cooperated with Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador and other countries in the region. After the war, American intelligence received documents stating that Hitler was going to create 5 puppet states from Latin America.
German intelligence carried out active propaganda in America and prepared sabotage groups, which in the future were to specialize in the destruction of industrial and military facilities in the United States. Back in 1940, the German leader was interested in the Azores, which he considered an ideal base for bombing the United States. Fearing the advance of the Germans in the Atlantic Ocean, the Americans occupied Iceland.
Hitler saw the ocean as the main problem in the war with the United States. Germany was afraid to ferry troops across the English Channel and land in Britain, against the background of this failure, the landing in America looked unrealistic. Hitler hoped to weaken the United States by turning the countries of Latin America against it, defeating its allies and provoking popular unrest within the States themselves.
Alexander Brazhnik