Canada Invaded ??

If Germany had managed to invade Russia and Siberia do you think they would have pushed for an invasion of Canada ? If you think that the Germans would have invaded do you think it would have been successful ?

 

Canada has too much geography, and the USA's support for it to ever work. Remember, when it got to be -35 in Russia, thats when the Germans lost Moscow, and I imagine your thinking invading through Alaska right? It can get to be like -50 up there, in the mountains. If you mean through Southern BC it wouldnt work simply because USA (Signed A deal with Canada in like 1935 where if Canada was invaded USA would protect) wouold send millions of troops, and remember, they had to advance thousands of KM's and the Praries is the only flatland there.
Also they would have to invade the USA cause lets say they got 1000 km's, they still had a Southern Flank to go over, as well as the Rockey Mountains to the East.

 

The only way Germany could have invaded Canada is if they would have conquered both the UK and USSR. After that anything would have been possible.

 

Invading a 15.000.000 square-kilometres country 4.000 kilometres away from your shores?! Hahaha! You'd need the 200 divisions the Germans used in 'Barbarossa' to cross the hostile Atlantic and land in the hostile immense territory of Canada expecting the USA to stare quietly? I don't think it was possible at all. Even with the UK and USSR defeated...

And this is not true. I suggest you to read the topic "Eastern Front victory conditions" in the "War in Russia" forum... there we all came to the conclusion that winter did not have to do much with German defeat.

 

I think, well, that it would have taken quite many years to settle the situation in Russia ( if Germany had conquered it ) before they could take a look at the other countries. And before Canada I think the US comes first.But maybe with years it would have been possible...

 

Hitler's plan after Soviet Union was to push on to eastern asian then the Middle East, linking up with troops from Africa. The plan was to take Canada by the east, using Great Britain as a staging point, then Greenland. If they took down the Soviet Union I assume the Middle East would fall, but taking great britain and Africa would of been a headache.

 

I doubt that invading Canada, was anything but another of the Fuhrers wet dreams.

It would be impossible for Germany to maintain the logistic for such an operation.

 

The only nation that had any plans for invading Canada, in the period just before WW2 was.....
The United States of America

 

I agree with The Red Baron. There were too many factors against a German invasion of Canada. I highly doubt it would have succeeded if it was ever attempted.

but Redcoat's post is sure interesting LOL

DUCE

 

And why did the USA were the only ones with plans to invade Canada?! Because they have a 4.000+ kilometres common border... Germany had 5.000+ kilometres of Atlantic waters... Even without the RN, even without the USN... Logistics!!!

 

No offence, but why would the Nazis have any interest in invading Canada? Once they conquored Russia (a huge feat in itself) the need for 'Lebensraum' and to destroy the untermenche would have been fulfilled, why bother with Canada? People often think the Germans wanted to take the whole world, well to the best of my knowledge they didnt even have much interest in the far east of Russia, let alone the rest.

And Brad, you can't have 'too much Geography', it doesn't make grammatical sense, sorry, I am in a pernickity mood.

 

Anyone interested in the USA's invasion plans try this site
http://web.usf.edu/sequence/feces/General%20%20books%20for%20background/US%20Invasion%20Of%20Canada%201920.pdf

 

While hardly a full-scale invasion, a remarkable wartime film called the Forty-Ninth Parallel depicts a stranded u-boat crew's efforts to traverse wartime Canada from Hudson's Bay to the border of neutral America at Niagara Falls.



[ 01. July 2003, 12:02 AM: Message edited by: Crapgame ]

 

I don't think the Germans were intereste to take Canada. If they would have taken Russia and Great-Brittain, they wouild try to conquer the Middle-East, Asia and Africa and they would probably support the governments in Southern-Amerika.

 

If the Germans did take Canada there army would be streched to there limets. Even the german army can not occupy the hole of eroup most of asia and Cannada, there army would be every weak and rebles would be a major problem....

 

Of what i have read in books, Hitler just wanted to conquer the European part of Russia (build defences at the Ural mountains) and then kill all the russians in the occupied part to make Lebensraum for the Volksdeutsche. As far as I know, Hitler's plans didn't streach further than Europes outer borders. The war in North Africa was just to help the italians when they tried to make a new Roman Empire.(?)

 

Hitler had not the slightest interest in Canada whatsoever. he had no plans to invade Canada, he also had no plans to invade the USSR east of the Urals.

The only mention of Canada at all in his planning, is that in his conversations with his senior staff (src: H Trevor-Roper) he stated that he believed that during the war in Europe, the United States would probably take the opportunity to complete their 'natural Anschluss of Canada'.

There was more of a threat of Japan invading Canada than Germany, it was simply not plausible, and never considered.

Thats not to say Canada was not afraid of this threat, I published an article referring to the canadian lan to empty the huge fuel containers into Halifax harbour and set them alight in the case of invasion, starting a fire that would surely have destroyed much of Halifax itself.

[ 24. July 2003, 10:49 AM: Message edited by: Vermillion ]

 

Hitler had enemys everywhere. He had no chance to start off with on winning let alone taking over a place on enemy grounds. In the film We Were Soldiers, The French got massacred with many points against them
Fighting on enemy ground
Outnumbered ETC.
If they were to take Canada, they would need a massive army, for to get reinforcements would have to wait ages. I doubt the Germans have any good point on their side.

 

The only way for Germany or any other country to do this would be to have the manpower support of the international community. Meaning, if all the countries he counquered provided the manpower and resources. Germany alone or any other country could not do it.