Did Hitler Ever Consider America as a threat?

Being that America is the reason Germany lost World War I why didn't Hitler consider them a grave threat?

 

Hitler considered the USA to be morally, racially and socially degenerate. ( see Hitler's Table Talk, p.188 ).

 

ok but he never considered them a military threat?

 

Did you also get this interesting theory from the History Channel?

 

I would not say the America was the reason for Germany losing WWI. As for considering the US a military threat, no Hitler did not. I don't even recall reading about any of his 'top' advisors fearing US intervention other than Raeder.

 

Of course he thought the US was a military threat.....in 1944!

Seriously though, prior to WW 2 the US ranked 36th as a military power worldwide. In the First World War, the US got in too late to really have a psychological impact like it did in the Second. Additionally, Hitler, and most of his inner circle, had hardly ever been outside Germany, let alone travelled to America.
I remember reading commentaries by captured German soldiers sent to POW camps in the US (typically places like Arizona). They repeatedly say their opinion of Germany winning the war changed to one that they were doomed as "day after day we travelled on a train across America and saw fields full of tractors and machines, automobiles everywhere, factories, and towns and cities untouched by war."
Hitler's view, and it seems reinforced by commentaries like Göring's "All America can build are refrigerators and razor blades!," was that the US was little or no threat. It was half-a-world away, had a worthlessly small military, and no means to project power to Europe or anywhere else. No one had ever seen a nation prosecute a war around the world fighting on fronts thousands of miles from home. I think that the concept of this even being possible was beyond Hitler's comprehension when he declaired war on the US.

 

well if Hitler would have took England it would have made all the difference in the world. -no pun intended.

 

It might have very well made a difference for the U.S., Stalin however did not have thousands of miles of ocean seperating him from Germany.

No pun taken....

 

true that!

 

Oh yes - he considered them to be a moral, racial and socially degenerate military threat.

 

so strange, being that when the U.S. entered in WWI they were the tide that turned the war for Germany. Maybe if Hitler saw what a vast country America is and its resources he would have thought twice.

 

Well, Hitler thought that since it takes a long time for U.S. to prepare for the world war, he could beat all the enemies in Europe before that.

Second, from the supply point of view, it was easy for Stalin to place 500 divisions on the frontline, but that was a bit more difficult for U.S. to do.

And had Hitler captured all the natural resources in the Soviet Union, U.S. wouldn't have been that superior in the terms of resources.


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Bingo. Even if Hitler were to capture these resource, it would be 1-2 years before he could benefit from it. Most probably would employ Russian slave labor which is the most inefficient way of operation in manufacturing. The war would end by then.

 

Yes, it definitely would take time to get the best out of the Caucasus etc region resources, but Hitler could put those 2-2,5 million men to the western front if he could have beaten the USSR.

 

especially with the scorched earth policy.

YouTube - Juni 1941 Operation Barbarossa in colour