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"Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico"
-they had no such plans. Germany cared only about Europe, and Japan about their Co-Prosperity Sphere.
"America’s only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland..."
-Ireland stayed neutral in World War 2. England and Scotland are not countries. He should have said, United Kingdom.
"All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in the East, was already under the Nazi heel."
-Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Finland, and Turkey were not under the Nazi heel. All but Finland stayed out of World War 2.
"America was certainly not prepared for war"
-Military conscription was introduced Sept. 1940 in United States, expanding the army from 2 divisions to 34, with a manpower of 1.6 million, by the middle of 1941. Mobilization plans were in place, and the US Navy had been fighting an unofficial war with the German U-Boot fleet for at least a year.
"...at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training with broomsticks because they didn’t have guns, and cars with “tank” painted on the doors because they didn’t have real tanks."
-may have been true in the 20's and early 30's, but by Dec 1941, the US had four armored divisions largely armed with M3 Lee medium tanks.
"Britain had already gone bankrupt,..."
-Britain did not go bankrupt during World War 2. In large part, this was thanks to Roosevelt's Lend-Lease aid before and during American entry into the war.
"saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact)"
-seems to have been "little known" because Kraft pulled this one right out of his ass.
" was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later..."
-Britain was saved by the English Channel. Hitler wanted to invade in Operation Sealion, but because the Royal Air Force was not defeated by the Luftwaffe, a cross-channel invasion was viewed as too risky, because the Luftwaffe could not protect the attack barges that would carry the invasion fleet from the Royal Navy while the Royal Air Force still existed to shoot down the Luftwaffe.
"...first turning his attention to Russia, at a time when England was on the verge of collapse, in the late summer of 1940"
-Hitler's attention had been on Russia at least since he wrote Mein Kampf in prison. Hitler directed the Wehrmacht High Command to plan for a Russian attack in Sept 1940, but anticipated a mid-1940s invasion. Anyways, the invasion took place in June 1941, not in late summer of 1940.
"Ironically, Russia saved America’s butt by putting up a desperate fight for two years.."
-Russia was invaded in June, 1941. America entered the war Dec, 1941. That is six months. Not quite sure how Russia "saved America's butt", since America was never realistically threatened with invasion by Germany.
"Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire war effort against the Brits, then America. And the Nazis could possibly have won the war"
-Germany might have eventually conquered Britain, but a cross-Atlantic invasion while trying to hold all of Europe (including Russia) was a pipe dream to all but World War 2 revisionists. Germany had neither the manpower, the industrial base, the fleet, nor the inclination to invade North America.
Should I go on?
Surely Kraft meant his bizarrely inaccurate article as a joke, sort of a "how to make shit up" article.
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