What was the Nazi war plans after they conquered Russia?

The Nazis had plans to conquer most of Europe and a chunk of Russia by 1941-42. Rommel's forces were hoped to capture the Suez canal and march through the Middle East and connect up in Southern Russia. These plans supposed that all would go remarkably well for the Nazis. I often wondered what were the military plans the Nazis drew up after they knocked off eastern Russia? I don't believe the Nazis wouldn't have had some fantastic world domination plan.
 

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When Pearl Harbor happened, we [Roosevelt's advisors] were desperate. ... We were all in agony. The mood of the American people was obvious – they were determined that the Japanese had to be punished. We could have been forced to concentrate all our efforts on the Pacific, unable from then on to give more than purely peripheral help to Britain. It was truly astounding when Hitler declared war on us three days later. Icannot tell you our feelings of triumph. It was a totally irrational thing for him to do, and I think it saved Europe."[SUP][6]
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Hitler's reasons for declaring war against the US when he was not obligated to were numerous. One was an emotional response: the Japanese tactic of using a surprise attack without making a declaration of war appealed to him – he had done the same thing when he attacked the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa in June 1941; indeed, he told the Japanese ambassador "[O]ne should strike – as hard as possible – and not waste time declaring war."[SUP][2][/SUP] Also, the prospect of a worldwide war fed Hitler's tendency towards grandiose thinking, and reinforced his feeling that he was a world-historical figure of destiny. As he said in his declaration speech to the Reichstag:

I can only be grateful to Providence that it entrusted me with the leadership in this historic struggle which, for the next five hundred or a thousand years, will be described as decisive, not only for the history of Germany, but for the whole of Europe and indeed the whole world.[SUP][2][/SUP]
 

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Olivia, that all made sense to me. We were torn as to whether risk our young men to help Europe, even when stricken by the Japanese, when it was Hitler after all who declared war on us as you say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost

Tells of the Master Plan for the east in ethnic cleansing and genocides. It's all there.


While Hitler declared war on us.....words.....it was Japan that attacked us!
 
Olivia, that all made sense to me. We were torn as to whether risk our young men to help Europe, even when stricken by the Japanese, when it was Hitler after all who declared war on us as you say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost

Tells of the Master Plan for the east in ethnic cleansing and genocides. It's all there.

And there are still those that claim it never happened........
 
The US was inching closer to entering the European war by early 1942. While pubic opinion in the US hadn't yet fully shifted, the Nazis had sunk US Naval ships. There was no way we could remain "neutral" and still provide massive infusions of supplies and arms to the UK and USSR. That was FDR's plan. The US dramatically began to beef up its military starting in 1938. War was inevitable. By declaring war on the US, Hitler now could let his uboats freely attack the US shipping lifeline to the UK.

I wonder what was the Nazi plan when the USSR was disposed of? What or who was next in their path?
 
It is interesting to speculate about how things would have turned out if Hitler had not been defeated. Germany had brilliant scientists who were developing more advanced weapons, including nuclear and biological. The German army was well-disciplined and well-trained. In fact, it was like a repeat of the Romans. The Americans provided us with the manpower and money to defeat them, but I think, like the Romans, the Germans over-stretched themselves, and Hitler didn't learn from Napoleons mistake when he attacked Russia.
 
Germany declared war on the U.S. four days after Pearl Harbor. In return, the U.S. then declared war on Germany. My Dad fought in WWII in France, but it was very difficult to get him to talk about his experiences, other than how cold he was all the time. Growing up with my Dad, I can positively say that we were never cold in my house. Dad would raise Cain if we left a light on in a room that nobody was in, but if we jacked up the heat because we said that we were cold or even chilly, he never said a word.
 
For those of you who never read "Winds of War" I recommend doing so. Great book
Three years ago while watching AMC a WWII told a very interesting story: He was a major in the Army. In 1945 he was in charge of a large group of German POWs. A German officer approached him and after saluting asked very casually as to where the major was from in the states. When the major told him he was from Bridgeport CN the kraut was amazed and said that he had been trained to be the burgermeister of that area when the US surrendered to Germany. He then displayed his vast knowledge of the Bridgeport area.
I did some reading on the subject and Hitler was confident that he'd have the army to do this after the Brits and the Russians joined his ranks. Scary stuff. Unfortunately there was no way FDR could convince the American public that it was much more than just a Europen conflict in 1941.
 
It was Churchills happiest moment when Hitler declared war on America. I often wonder what Hitlers's generals were saying under their breathe after that.

There are rumors that Churchill literally danced around his office when the Jap's bombed Pearl. He knew that, that would at the very least draw us into the war in the Pacific. And likely Europe as well.......
 
Let's not forget Hitler's health both physical and mental. His popularity was diminishing. His military had long beieved he was wrong on most of his calls and knew the war was lost long before it was official. The Luftwaffe was no more, the industrial power to make war was wiped out by constant bombing by British and American air power. The ground forces were decimated and demoralized. So it is impossible to try to imagine what might have been if Hitler would have won because the formula dictated he never had a chance of winning.
 
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Remember the woman who claimed she was Tsar Nicholas II's daughter, Anastasia, who [she said] escaped the horrific Bolshevik murder of the Romanov royal family ??

She also claimed to have met with Hitler and [she said] he planned to restore the Romanov throne.

While she might have been looney-tunes...

It is a fact that many Tsarist Russians [including the archbishop of the "Russian Orthodox Church in Exile" headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia] did support Hitler's overthrown of Bolshevik Russia... and many Russians [including Cossacks] also fought along side Germans to try to liberate their homeland from the Bolsheviks.
 
I think I heard this right. Hitler's three brothers before him died very early. Then he was born and survived. Next, the child after him died young. If only one of the ones that died could have been him instead.
 
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Through the centuries, many Russian Tsars married German princesses.

When German Princess Catherine the Great ruled Russia, she encouraged Germans to settle in Russian lands.

The last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, was mostly Germanic. He was the cousin of both Kaiser Wilhelm II and King George V.

Ironically, the decisive battle of the war happened near Stalingrad [Volgograd] which had been populated by the Volga Germans before Stalin forcibly removed the Germans eastward at the beginning of the war, killing thousands of them in the process.

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Putin also has interesting German connections.

Putin was a KGB officer in East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell. His [ex] wife was born in Russian Kaliningrad [formerly German Prussia] and she taught German at a Russian university. One of their daughters was born in East Germany. According to those in the know... even after returning to Russia, the Putin family continued to speak German at home and both daughters attended the German school in Moscow.
 
It is interesting to speculate about how things would have turned out if Hitler had not been defeated. Germany had brilliant scientists who were developing more advanced weapons, including nuclear and biological. The German army was well-disciplined and well-trained. In fact, it was like a repeat of the Romans. The Americans provided us with the manpower and money to defeat them, but I think, like the Romans, the Germans over-stretched themselves, and Hitler didn't learn from Napoleons mistake when he attacked Russia.


My brother was one of NASA's Apollo era scientists [he retired after 42 years with NASA.] When I was a kid visiting his lab at the Lunar Receiving Lab Building in Houston, he told me that neither the USA nor the USSR would have a space program without the foundation of Third Reich science.
 
There is a notion that the US was a "neutral nation", when the "Japs hit Pearl", Dec 7, 1941. That's not really true. Beginning in early 1941, the US was escorting US/UK shipping in the Atlantic. Things were escalting in the Atlantic. A US Naval ship was sunk by a nazi submarine, with the loss of 100 men in Oct. 1941. That of in itself is an Act Of War by US law. And by that time, the US Navy had orders to report all Nazi activity in the Atlantic, and orders to fire at will on Nazi forces. Again, by this time, it was obvious that the UK would need massive infusions of food, material and arms, if it were to survive the next six months. The only way to get those supplies to the UK from the US was via the Atlantic, where the Nazis were ready to sink any such convoys. It ws inevitable. War was coming, and by summer 1942.
My question is what was the intended Nazi game plan once Russia & UK were out of the picture?
 
Operation Barbarosa sunk Hitler with the Russians. The Germans were told it would be a quick sweep and so they were not given clothing and supplies for a long and very cold conflict.
 


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