What do you think Germany, Europe, and America would be like if Hitler had never been elected or started WW2?

Question

If WW2 would have never happened than maybe Germany would be overun by Jews? Or maybe it wouldn't? Do you think it was a lesson we needed to learn or would we have been better with out WW2?

Answer 1

Hitler was never elected. Although he made it seem that he legally was elected to the Chancelorship of Germany it was a seizure of power that he achieved by playing his political enemies against each other. In response to your question The second world war was almost enevitable because WWII is in a sense the last battle of the First World War.

Answer 2

"Overrun by Jews"? There would be more Jews living here and many of them would have probably contributed a lot to our culture and science. The Holocaust was also a loss for Germany. It's hard to say what Germany would be like without WW2. It was a very hard lesson that turned people away from nationalism, racism and antisemitism, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist anymore at all and maybe people would have learned something even without this lesson. It is amazing what happened in Europe after WW2 as it is the first time in European history that there is a really stable peace in Europe and another war between European countries has become unthinkable, former archenemies like Germany and France or Germany and Poland have become friends. I don't know if all this would have happened without WW2, but it is somehow surprising that the cruelest war of world history led to an end of such deep hostilities. But I think that it is because people once for all understood what can be the horrible result of such hatred. But I'd always wish that WW2 would have never happened, it was such an incredibly cruel senseless bloodshed, such a horrible loss of human life, so much suffering. And without WW2, the Holocaust would not have been possible, and I'd really wish that it would not have happened.

Answer 3

The US army learned alot of fighting tactics from the Germans,(ICBM, using the air force to bomb enemies before an invasion) Our army would be very backward, imagine the US army with 1980's technology in the year 2007. colonialism would have ended about 10 to 20 years ago, or the world in a constant Cold war like state with civil wars occurring all over the world. It would be half Communist, half capitalist. America would have less Jewish immigrants and immigrant from Europe.The second world war was almost enevitable because if Hitler won't start it, the communist would have started it 10 to 20 years later.But this is very hypothetical

Answer 4

Something drastic, closely akin to what started WWII, would have happened. Germany was under severe economic pressure with inflation rates that you would not be able to imagine. The people would not have lived under that stress for much longer than they did before some other idiot took over to free them of the stress.

The economic problems were instituted by the peace treaty ending WWI. The treaty wanted by the European countries was so severe that the US would not ratify it. Money changed value so much that often you find paper money, stamps, and bonds, over printed with a new valuation rather than spending the money to print new documents. 10,000 German Marks wouldnot have bought you a box of matches.

I suggest you, and all others reading this, to read Erich Fromm's ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM which describes how a Hitler could come to power. People were starving, many scavenging the streets for garbage, being chased out of their homes and other heinous things. They would sooner or later have revolted on their own until a little man with a little mustache claimed that he could answer all their questions and solve all of their problems.

During and after reading this, consider the last six years and the Bush Administration. Read over the rhetoric by Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and others and feel free to make comparisons.

People who have too many questions and the inability to answer them and too many problems and the inability to solve them will jump to the first person who says he has all the answers.

Answer 5

Germany will be the most powerful country in Europe,and the Europe be power then America.And in America be much less Jews and immigrant from Europe.

Answer 6

Germany wouldn't have been overrun by Jews since they were (and still are) a minority. The Weimar Republic would still be in effect and we would still be competing with Russia to be the world's superpower.

Answer 7

We would be about 20 years behind where we are now. The world would be a much quieter, parochial place than now