What would the world be like now, if the Nazis had won the war?
929559
i'm sure someone would have opposed them and defeated them sooner or later. \n\nchances are, they'd tap phone lines, hold ppl in secret prisons without trials, rig elections, promote their friends even if they had criminal records, let the rich get richer at the poor's expense, and conceal all their crimes, affairs, drug habits, etc.\n\nnow that i think about it, it sounds kinda familiar.
431908
The possibilty exits for WWIII. Recent happenings around the world suggest and actually point to this dreadful fact. Hunger, famine and instability in Africa, terrorism and civil unrest in Europe and the overbearing and meddlesome attitude of America in everybody's affairs all point to the possibility of a 3rd world war.
108667
We are not going to have a WWIII anytime soon.  The polarization that affected the world in the 20th century is not present.  Democracies rarely if ever go to war with one another.  Since almost the entire worlds wealth is in 10 countries, all democracies, I do not see a political conflict ever arising.  The only wild card is China. When they do rise to economic and military prominence, there could be a destabilization of Asia.  If they also convert to a social democracy there will be no real threat of a world war.\n\nCulturally there is a war, between Jedo-Christianity and Islam.  The birthrate in European countries is so low that their Islamic immigrants will outnumber the original inhabitants of France, Italy, and Germany in 100 years.  The distinct differences beftween the cultures will have to blur or there will be another holocaust, which side will do it, who knows?  Remember Bosina-Herzogovina??  Orthodox Christians decimating and raping muslims to wipe them out.   If nations are pushed to the brink of extinction, they will use all means available.  Another cultural wildcard, India.\n\nNo one knows what will happen, I just hope that the Israeli-Palestinian confllict is resolved fairly and justly for both sides, that moderate and tolerant religeous leaders of all faiths prevail, instead of the fear and hatred that is growing all over the world.  \n\nI have hope, that with no facist or expansionist communist regime with any money or resources, our world will eventually learn to be at relative peace.
323324
America rules! All countries wouldn't be jack without us. Every country in Europe would be speaking German. Australians would be speaking Japanese. Either join us or prepare to get bombed as well.
1170639
id make the world technicolor. remonve the idea of war and hate from everyoens minds. \nvke everyone have perfect bodies and cure world hunger. no more aids either. or dying. or sadness.
400148
What was it like living in that attic for so long? How did you feel about the Nazis?
512801
If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at the same time the world would not end, and every one would not die.  Many, even most, people would die, and the planet may suck more than it does now but I would spend 30 Min doing my best to ensure that I was not one of the ones who would die.
483214
Well considering that didnt happen no one can tell you for sure what the world would be like today.\nThey can guess or even imagine...but how are they to know for sure.\n\nI bet back then if you told people what the world would be like today you would have been tarred and feathered!
733055
The war would just begin
275391
Basically World World II was like a continuation of World World I. Essentially this is what happened. World War I starts (aka - The Great War pre WWII) and afterwards its like everyone took a break. I'm not joking either. It was like a pause for 20 years. In the early 1930's, Japan invaded China. China actually had the most amount of casualties, not Russia or Eastern Europe. \n\nMost countries blamed Germany and so Germany had many sanction and restrictions put on the country. Hitler played off of these emotions and blamed the Jewish population for all of Germany's problems. At this time, Hitler was also quickly moving up in the ranks and finally became Dictator. \n\nHitler then started annexing countries in the mid to left 1930's and every country began to appease him. After he took over Poland and much of France, it was too late. The non-aggression pact between Germany and Russia made Hitler essentially invulnerable because from Eastern Europe was essentially all his to take over minus Russia. (Hitler would later reneg on the non-agreesion pact)\n\nThe United States needed an excuse to get into WWII and they finally got one on June 6, 1941 - Pearl Harbor. \n\nAbout 6 million jews were killed and 6 million gypsies, homosexuals, etc were killed. \n\nIn China, about 20-25 million were killed.
41982
Well, winning World War II set the United States up to be a world power.  It also helped ushered in a great deal of long-overdue reforms in Europe, and today a European Federal Constitution is now a very real possibility.  Further still,  had Hitler succeeded, he would have undoubetly gone on to destroy the United States indescriminatently.  He would not have spared a single American, even those who resembled his ideal race, because they had grown up in a culture that was, in his eyes, dirty and corrupt (not to mention we were his sworn enemy).  This is one of the many instances in which money plays no role, so the 2.6 trillion figure you site is meaningless.  And even though the use of atomic weapons is still controversial, that alone does not aide your case 'was stopping _Hitler_ worth it.  I'm frankly shocked and appauled that someone could use their freedom of speech, something that wouldn't be enjoyed in a Hilter-ized America, in such a blatantly ridiculous manner.
1137668
We are Blessed because we live in the GREATEST nation on the planet!  I too love the country (and ALL the nuts).\n\nI really cannot imagine what the world would be like If the US never existed.  Whether you agree or disagree with our recent or past actions, I am not sure WWI would have ended well - I KNOW WWII would not have. \nI think the best way to look at it is the way "It's a wonderful life" did.  Sure we may have problems, but the world would be a whole lot worse off if it weren't for us. \n(and anyone who denies that really hasn't looked at world history).
188954
I once had a 6th grade teacher that said that nobody could rule the world because it would spread them to thin. I subscribe to that theory because it sounds reasonable to me. Just because Germany or Japan took over France there was still a resistance that contributed to the victory by the allies. If it was here there would also have been an underground that would have made it tough to keep us in line. So the answer to this is no I think that English will always be the language of the land regardless if we pass on a war or not.
362192
World War 2, was won by the allies, Due to their ,Unity, Discipline, &Superior Weapons, Training, STRATEGY,& Courage.\nAlso due to the ULTIMATE ISOLATION, of GERMANY, & THE fact that the GERMANS, tried to fight on SO MANY FRONTS, SIMULTANEOUSLY.
157208
so what if it did happen?\nso what if it didnt happen?\nwhatever had happened is "had happened" & we cant do anything abt it whether the jews were burned or it merely fake myth to corrupt Hitler's image
198167
That's easy. The aftermath was world war 2.\n\nWell, economic depression, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the extermination camps, etc..\n\nSome historians say that actually world war one and two are just an expanded period of great changes.
504324
~The only way that Germany could have won would have been with the support of the US and by tapping into US industrial might, just as was the case  with Britain and France.  The good thing about sitting on the sidelines until the fight is almost over is that the Johnny-(Sammy)-come-lately gets to pick the winner.  \n\nThus, the occupation of Moscow would have been shared by the US and Germany and the cold war would have been unnecessary.  Britain would have retained some semblance of its present self, but we wouldn't have had to suffer the Lady Di crap. Most likely, Britain would have pulled an Italy and switched sides.   The rest of Europe would be the non-entity it is and was, with US and German troops ever present to keep it that way.  Lech Walesa and Solidarity would never have happened.  The Berlin Wall would not have come down because it would have never been built.\n\nThe trip to the moon  would have happened sooner and much more efficiently.  Synthetic fuels would be the norm rather than the exception.  The Euro would have come into being 5 decades sooner.  The Common Market  would have come into being much sooner, under a different name.  Italy would still by a nice place to visit, but not much else.  The Soviet Union would have been an Anglo-American-German colonial protectorate.  Israel would not exist, Algeria would have gained independence much sooner and Nasser would not have had to, wanted to or needed to nationalize the Suez Canal.  Qaddafi and Idi Amin would have been tending camels rather than running puppet-governments for super powers.  Korea would have been left to the Koreans.\n\nIn exchange for a US alliance, or peace with the US, Germany would have terminated its treaties with Japan.  The Japanese markets and materials would have been replaced and exceeded by the products and profits from the west, with  whom the Germans were much more kindred.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki would still have the distinction of being the only places on earth to have been nuked, but Uncle will have his day.  Chiang may have stayed on the mainland, but, if not, Mao would have been even less significant than he was.  Nam would have been unnecessary.\n\nThe Middle East would have been subjugated and Sadam and the Shah would be meaningless footnotes in history.  We would still have pillaged Middle Eastern oil, but Opec wouldn't have been able to stop us.\n\nThere is a reason that one of the US's strongest allies today is Germany.  Hitler was an anomaly.  The US and Germany are as tight today as they were when Von Steuben trained the Troops at Valley Forge, and Britain and Germany share more history and monarchical families than any other two nations in European history.\n\nHitler would have been talked away from his racial policies, but not too quickly.  The rest of the world was never really too upset with the camps and the death of 6 million Jews and 9 million others who died in them anyways.  Certainly not the US, who had exercised similar policies with Native Americans and who was pondering what could be done to quash the  Afro-Americans, Eastern and Southern Europeans  and Asians who were making foolish noises about equality and justice and  whose backs were no longer needed in the mills,  in the fields, in the factories and on the railroads.\n\nIn short, not much would be different today.  The names and places of history might be different, but your life would be pretty much what it is.\n\nSo why do you ask?