What would have happened if in 1940 after conquering France, Hitler launched no more major campaigns and focused entirely on researching the atom bomb from then on, and also on stockpiling resources and producing better tanks/strategic bombers?
What would have happened if in 1940 after conquering France...
Joshua Long
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Jack Taylor
nothing
because Hitler believed in Aryan physiks™
John Brown
Economy would have still imploded from inflation and the pretend money he was printing to help fuel rearmament.
Russia would have access to all their technological advances thanks to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Polish uprising would still have been a thing to deal with which would probably end violently and encourage Britain and the USA to act.
He would have already lost several prominent Jewish-German scientists who could have worked on the Atom bomb like Einstein, Max Born, Otto Stern, James Franck, Fritz London, and Francis Simon. They were all major players in the development of nuclear weapons, and it's pretty hard to downplay how much Hitler's anti-semitism lost him some of the best minds in Germany. Has he adopted a more Bismarkian realpolitik attitude and made exceptions or something for "Jews who have contributed to the aryan success" or something.
Jose Anderson
This is a common misinterpretation of the physics question. It was literally just other scientists who disagreed with the larger jewish nuclear physicists on the subject who used political influence with the Nazi Party to advocate their theories.
Ayden Adams
>stockpiling resource
The nazi economy was massively in the red, Hitler financed his ambitions thru debt and without the plunder of conquests, Germany would have collapsed.
> researching the atom bomb
The nazi approach to this was complete;y wrong-headed, it's possible they would have eventually realized this and moved to an effective method but certainly not before the British got there.
Justin Foster
Don't forget the manufacturing issue: Germany didn't exactly have access to what were at the time known sources of uranium, the biggest center (again, known at the time) was in Canada.
Logan Carter
The Brits were well ahead on nuclear research, they would have got to the bomb first.
Gavin Nelson
sause nigger
Leo Nguyen
sorry
Blake Russell
Ethan Baker
You'll need Jews for that.
Lincoln Fisher
>Jáchymov
>Dolní Rožínka
There was plenty of Uranium ore there.
Jace Allen
>the biggest center (again, known at the time) was in Canada.
So did america just strong arm Canada into giving them uranium?
Nicholas Harris
The Manhatten Project was a joint US-UK-Canada project, it wasn't just American.
Nolan Parker
He would've got raped by the english and ruskies
Caleb Long
He thought atomic bombs were a jewish trick, your scenario is as likely as the krauts creating slopped armor on their panzer 3s.
Jaxon Ramirez
TL;DR: It was not in its hand actually.
Britain and France declared war on Germany in 1939. So that was a front that could not be stabilized unless UK was taken care of, which would need a major campaign. And pray that the USA didn't help the britbongs.
However Japan was an ally, and will declare war on the USA in 1941 no matter what, much to the relief of Churchill.
Hitler would have had to choose between helping its only significant ally, declare war on the USA and end the remaining British colonies in Asia (India), to collude in the middle east and have access to petrol; or do nothing and have the nips be smashed, to finally be easily taken care of by a combined anglo coalition.
Also Hitler never invested what it took in the nuke. He would have never gotten it before the USA or the soviets on the cheap.
Dominic Morgan
>However Japan was an ally, and will declare war on the USA in 1941 no matter what, much to the relief of Churchill.
By this you mean that the nips attacked only on the insistence of the krauts? The japs were highly uncertain of going to war with the allies, and only after it looked like the Germans were winning did they attack
Carter Lewis
>you should have kept the Jews for that!!
Is a Nuremberg myth. The German scientists captured after the war said they could have made the bomb if they had had the manpower to purify the uranium which Germany couldn't spare in its desperate situation.
They could have gotten the bomb but Hitler and OKW wasn't willing to give up resources on that big of a gamble.
They also stated that Hitler's interst in atomic research was not really to weaponized it but to use it for energy.
So to OP's question, fi they had focused on Nuclear WEAPONS and not energy, they could have done it.
The primary reasons they didn't according to the scientists on the project was they couldn't get any men to do the labour needed to get the purified uranium. So if in 1941 when Germany was very close to winning the war they had set aside the labour for the scientists they could have built the bomb.
But Hitler, didn't want to destroy Britian or France and probably wouldn't have used it on them. He would have no doubt used it on Russia though.
German OKW wanted Japan to attack Singapore or Russia, not the USA. The Japs asked for a guarantee of a DoW if they ended up at war with the US and Hitler gave it, though informally, thinking the Japanese were worried the US would attack following an attack on Singapore. Costly mistake allying with Nips.
Parker Foster
>Is a Nuremberg myth.
Not a myth, a hyperbole. They could have of course somehow make the bomb without the Jews, but driving out people like Meitner would certainly make the whole thing much harder.
>The German scientists captured after the war said they could have made the bomb if they had had the manpower to purify the uranium which Germany couldn't spare in its desperate situation.
Sounds like they were underestimating the whole business.
Jeremiah Wood
>So if in 1941 when Germany was very close to winning the war they had set aside the labour for the scientists they could have built the bomb.
Ignoring the part that Germany wasn't actually close to winning the war in 1941, this is still absurd. Even in a case of maximum commitment, Germany doesn't have the resources to throw around in atomic research or ability to obtain uranium that the U.S. does.So they're likely to go slower, but even if they don't:
The U.S. took about a year and a half from beginning their nuclear research to a self-sustaining reaction, and from then about 2 and a half more years to be able to produce bombs. All in all, about 4 years.
If Germany starts their atomic weapons program in 41, and go at the same rate the U.S. does (unlikely) they'll have their first bombs ready just in time to be overrun by the Soviets who are rolling into Berlin. It also doesn't answer questions as to how the Germans were going to deploy said bomb, given that they weren't really going for the whole 4 engined strategic bomber thing.