Originally Posted by
Lookleft
I think Crazy Adolf was just more obsessed with Russia rather than pleasantly disposed to Britain.
Always interesting to play Historical What If
I have read that Hitler's ultimate goal was to attack and defeat Russia (or Communism if you prefer) and it seems logical that the first strike would be to the West to secure the rear flank and gain/capture men and materiel. Britain being a Colonial power would possibly have been invited to join in rather than be invaded especially as invasion would be a costly affair. But it would still invaded if necessary. The US was at the time a rather small player on the world stage [1] and if you look at race relations in the thirties and forties you might ask: disregarding the attack on Pearl Harbor, which would have been the more logical side for it to join? ...
especially if there was a pact between Germany and Britain [2]
It's easy to look at history through the lens of what we now know, and equally easy to forget that in 1939 things could have gone either way. There were after all quite a few British people who thought we
should side with Germany
[1] Was WWII the best thing that ever happened to America?
[2] It is ironic that the US play a significant role in the defeat of Nazism with a segregated military