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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Jun 23 00:47:41 2015, in response to Re: Walmart: ''No More items with Confederate Symbols'', posted by R30A on Tue Jun 23 00:23:28 2015. From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_%28Nazism%29#Hitler.27s_plans_for_North_AmericaQuoted: Hitler's plans for North America Further information: Attacks on North America during World War II § German operations, Amerika Bomber, Consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor and Zweites Buch Before completing the expected German conquest of Europe, the Nazi leadership hoped to keep the United States out of the war.[82] In an interview with an American magazine in the spring of 1941, Hitler stated that a German invasion of the Western Hemisphere was as fantastic as an invasion of the moon, and was a lie promoted by American big business hoping to gain from war profiteering.[83] American pro-Nazi movements such as the Friends of the New Germany and the German-American Bund played no role in Hitler's plans for the country, and received no financial or verbal support from Germany after 1935.[84] However, certain Native American advocate groups, such as the fascist-leaning American Indian Federation, were to be used to undermine the Roosevelt administration from within by means of propaganda.[85][86] In addition, the Nazis considered the Sioux, and by extension all Native Americans to be Aryans,[85] a theory echoed in the sympathetic portrayal of the Natives in German westerns of the 1930s such as Der Kaiser von Kalifornien. Nazi propagandists went as far as declaring that Germany would return expropriated land to the Indians, while Goebbels predicted they possessed little loyalty to America and would rather rebel than to fight against Germany.[85] As a boy, Hitler had been an enthusiastic reader of Karl May westerns[9] and he told Albert Speer that he still turned to them for inspiration as an adult when he was in a tight spot;[87] the Karl May westerns contained highly sympathetic portrayals of American Indians. Approximately nine months before the United States joined the Allies, U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a reference to the New Order in a speech he gave on March 15, 1941: ...Nazi forces are not seeking mere modifications in colonial maps or in minor European boundaries. They openly seek the destruction of all elective systems of government on every continent, including our own. They seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers who seize power by force. Yes, these men and their hypnotized followers call this a "New Order." It is not new, and it is not order. For order among nations presupposes something enduring, some system of justice under which individuals over a long period of time are willing to live. Humanity will never permanently accept a system imposed by conquest, and based on slavery. These modern tyrants find it necessary to their plans to eliminate all democracies — eliminate them one by one. The nations of Europe, and indeed we, ourselves, did not appreciate that purpose. We do now.[88] Hitler actually held the American society in contempt, stating that the United States (which he consistently referred to as the "American Union") was "half Judaized, and the other half Negrified"[89] and that "in so far as there are any decent people in America, they are all of German origin".[90] As early as 1928, he had maintained that National Socialist Germany must prepare for the ultimate struggle against the USA for hegemony.[91] In mid-late 1941, as Axis victory against the USSR and Britain seemed certain, Hitler began planning an enormous extension of the Kriegsmarine, projected to include 25 battleships, 8 aircraft carriers, 50 cruisers, 400 submarines and 150 destroyers, far exceeding the naval expansion that had already been decided on in 1939's Plan Z.[92] Historian Gerhard L. Weinberg stated that this super-fleet was intended against the Western Hemisphere.[92] Hitler also considered the occupation of the Portuguese Azores, Cape Verde and Madeira and the Spanish Canary islands to deny the British a staging ground for military actions against Nazi-controlled Europe, and also to gain Atlantic naval bases for operations against North America.[93][94] Hitler desired to use the islands to "deploy long-range bombers against American cities from the Azores", via a plan that actually arrived on Hermann Goering's RLM office desks in the spring of 1942 for the design competition concerning such an aircraft.[95] In July 1941, Hitler approached Japanese ambassador Ōshima with an offer to wage a joint struggle against the USA[96] — Japan's own Project Z aircraft design program was one possible manner in which such a goal could be accomplished, all during the timeframe that the USAAC had itself, on April 11, 1941, first proposed a competition for airframe designs for the same sort of missions against the Axis forces, the Northrop XB-35 and the Convair B-36, flying directly from North American soil to attack Nazi Germany. In this final battle for world domination, Hitler expected a defeated Britain to eventually support the Axis forces with its powerful navy.[94] He stated that "England and America will one day have a war with one another, which will be waged with the greatest hatred imaginable. One of the two countries will have to disappear."[97] and "I shall no longer be there to see it, but I rejoice on behalf of the German people at the idea that one day we will see England and Germany marching together against America".[98] The actual physical conquest of the United States was unlikely, however,[99] and the future disposition of American territories remained cloudy in Hitler's mind.[100] He perceived the anticipated battle with that country, at least under his own rule, to be a sort of "battle of the continents" — possibly along the lines of then-contemporary American thought, such as the opening text from the second film in Frank Capra's Why We Fight series, illustrating one American viewpoint of what Hitler could have thought on such matters while viewing the crowds at the 1934 Nuremberg rally[101] — with a Nazi-dominated Old World fighting for global dominance against the New World, in which Germany would attain leadership of the world rather than establish direct control over it.[102] Further decisions down the line were left up to future generations of German rulers. Canada featured fairly little in Nazi conceptions of the post-war world. Because Hitler's political objectives were primarily focused on Eastern Europe before and during the war he considered the United States a negligible political factor in the world, while Canada interested him even less.[103] He politically grouped the country together with the United States in an American-dominated North America, and considered it equally as "materialistic, racially bastardized, and decadent" as its southern neighbour.[103] In 1942, when expressing his fear of an imminent collapse of the British Empire which he preferred to remain intact, Hitler believed that the United States would seize and annex Canada at the first opportunity,[104] and that the Canadians would be quick to welcome such a move.[103] This lack of policy direction from the top meant that Nazi politicians concerned with representing Germany's interests and relations with Canada had to resort to an improvised line of policy which they believed to be in accordance with Hitler's wishes.[103] The country was noted for its abundance of natural resources, and because of its great geographic size coupled with a low population density was characterized as "a country without people", in contrast to Germany which was considered "a people without space".[103] In his 1934 travelogue account of Canada, Zwischen USA und dem Pol (Between the USA and the North Pole), German journalist Colin Ross described Canadian society as artificial because it was composed of many different parts that weren't tied together by either blood or long-standing traditions (highlighting the differences between the French and English Canadians in particular), and that for this reason one could not speak of either a Canadian nation or Volk.[105] As a result the country's political system was also considered mechanic and non-organic, and that Ottawa did not constitute "the heart of the nation". Because of both these factors the Canadians were deemed incapable of comprehending "true culture", and German immigration in Canada was considered a mistake because they would be forced to live in an "empty civilization".[106] --- Now SOUTH America is a different story. Remember also that prior to the 1960's, most of the south was still a hot, humid shithole. Wasn't until all that federal money came in once Johnson was in office that major changes started happening throughout "Dixie." |
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