What would have happened to GB if USA which had many German immigrants had backed Nazis?

Question

I'm just curious, I don't like nazis

Answer 1

Well they didn't and you may never know so why bother asking imflammatory questions?.........

Answer 2

The German immigrants were not the ones who favored Hitler. There were a number of highly educated people who thought the US could learn something from socialism and communism who DID delay our entry into WWII. None of them were German immigrants.

What would have happened has been covered in many science fiction novels. Look for alternate histories. One of the possible consequences would have been German development of the atomic bomb. They were so close to having it by the end of the war that it's entirely feasible that the scientists DID drag their feet on reporting their research.

If the Germans couldn't conquer Britain, they probably would have bombed it into oblivion and then set up concentration camps for the survivors.

The problem is a dictatorship like the Third Reich had could only survive while the heirarchy (Hitler and his lieutenants) were alive. It would have collapsed in time even if they'd won the war.

The other problem is you can't wipe out the collective memories of a nation in less than two generations. Winning the war would have been far easier than winning the peace after the war. That's one of the reasons why no one has succeeded in dominating Britain. The Normans tried it and were eventually assimilated into the existing culture instead of the other way around.

Answer 3

I read a book about that once, I forgot the name of it. I know it had a green cover with a swastika on the front. I think the author was Phillip Roth or something...
I got bored halfway through, because it wasn't very well written, but the jist was the US had a Nazi party, and antisemitism ruled the land, even in NYC. But, if the US had backed germany, the Holocaust may not have happenned. Hitler wanted to get the Jews out of Germany. The ghettos were meant as a holding area until they could be deported. Then, when it became clear that Germany was going to lose the war, Hitler tried to cover up the work camps by creating death camps. So they might not have been seen as quite so evil or crazy.
Oh, you asked about GB. The brits would have endured, stayed independant, but gradually would have succumbed to the antisemitism and influence of the Nazi party. This view is based on another alternate history book, which I also can't think of the name...

Answer 4

Well, as a matter of fact, the USA did back the Nazis. Up until the Germans declared war on the US (not the other way round), the US had provided Nazi Germany with over $400 million, and the Germans said they couldn't have started the war without oil and weapons provided by companies like Texaco and General Motors.

Answer 5

Well, i'd say neither UK or Germany would be here now.
With the way the Nazis were, i'd say that with the USA on side, and with the way weaponry advanced straight after the war, something drastic would have happened with some sort of nuclear bomb.
For sure, Uk against Nazi Germany and the USA would have lasted for half as long as WW2 did, we'd have been defeated long time before that.
I'd say, USA would have come to it's senses after the war, and probably gone at it alone against germany. Then without a doubt, Japan & Germany would have been victorious, thus leaving the world the world in a far worse state than it is today.
(if that is possible)

Answer 6

The USA nearly entered the War on the Germans Side in WW1 so not so far fetched as there was a lot of support for the Nazis Ideals and Recovery especially in the very racist south of the US. Luckily with the faults and incompetance in German Agents and Sympathy groups in both Wars (The Most famous being Franz von Papen and the Mexican Plot) the US goverment was able to turn public opinion against them.
However to answer your question. There would have been no Lend Lease, full neutrality at least and not a passive neutrality and possibly even Armed intervention against the Empire.
But certain defeat for the Allied Nations.

Answer 7

A lot of what is the USA was once under British rule.
The US also had a lot of Italian, Russian and Irish immigrants.

If a pro Nazi administration had been in place I guess USA would have stayed neutral but they came in not because of the Germans but because the Japanese bombed pearl harbour, we were already fighting the Japanese for parts of our former Empire (pearl harbour 1941 I think the Japanese got control of Singapore around the same time).
So as they came in 'our' side to fight the Japanese it would have been impossible for USA to support the Germans in Europe.
Also by this time evidence of the concentration camps and the murder of Jews was becoming widely known.

So sorry, your question would really have to be based on events way back (the USA came in on the side of the Allies in WW1 as well )

It can't really carry any sort of meaningful hypothesis

Answer 8

I think the support the Nazi's had would have ended as soon as the Nazi's buddies bombed pearl harbour!

As it was, they did appear to be doing their best to stay out of the conflict in Europe until that point due to having sympathy with Germany because of the number of German descendants in the USA. They'd effectively distanced themselves from taking sides for 2years of the conflict until they were dragged into it by the Japanese.

Answer 9

It could never have happened, but just for fun, if it did the UK would still have won. The Russians would have never given up. Nor the underground forces in all of Europe. Before America's involvement we had frozen German assets and had a trade embargo. During Lend lease we lost many American merchant seaman bringing badly needed supplies to England. America is the Uk's greatest ally and she is ours. Let's not forget that.

Answer 10

in order for the USA to have backed the Nazi's the confederates would have needed to have won the American Civil war. (Discuss, as it sort of makes sense)
GB would not have won ww1 remember ww2 was a political extension of ww1.
I'm sad to say that we, like the poor occupied French and Belgians would have been enslaved to feed the Nazi war machine, which would then have turned its full force onto Russia.
If you go to France, often their war memorials have ww1 combatants ww2 combatants and the missing. The missing were people (men and women) who were forcibly removed and never seen again. Some sadly were exterminated in the holocaust, others were working in factories as we bombed them to bits

Answer 11

Say good-bye to GB. They just didn't have the equipment or industrial capacities to overcome the Germans. They would have a put up a good fight though. Brits are very tenacious and don't give up easily what they cherish. Look how long they have had a royal family?