¿Y si los nazis hubieran ganado la guerra? — Transcript

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1. 0:02Obsessed with the idea of ​​the superiority of the pure German race, which he called "Aryan",
2. 0:06Hitler believed that war was the only way to achieve the "Lebensraum", that is, the vital space
3. 0:12necessary for the German race to expand. This living space was planned by the Greater German
4. 0:17Reich , and it narrowed in the east until it reached the Urals, in Russia. In addition, this expansion
5. 0:22included the General Plan for the East, a secret genocide and ethnic cleansing plan. But the area that
6. 0:28Nazi Germany actually occupied was slightly different, as they did not occupy Sweden, but France
7. 0:33and other regions of Europe did. Germany went from occupying 469,000 square kilometers in 1925,
8. 0:40under the Weimar Republic, to occupying 824,000 square kilometers in 1940, as Nazi Germany.
9. 0:47But if we also take into account the territories occupied civilly and militarily
10. 0:51during the war, the total area would be close to 2,700,000 square km,
11. 0:56which would place it in the tenth largest country in the world. Today, Germany has even
12. 1:01less territory than in 1925, and is in position number 64, with 358,000 square km.
13. 1:09Germany suffered from various troubles and mistakes that condemned it to defeat in World
14. 1:13War II. Among them we can highlight: insufficient war economy in the early years,
15. 1:18starting a war on two fronts, weak supply lines on the Russian front,
16. 1:23mistakes in key battles such as Kursk or Stalingrad, and declaring war on the United States. Furthermore,
17. 1:30compared to its main rivals, Germany did not have large numbers. While it was not far behind
18. 1:35the Soviet Union in terms of GDP, the British Empire and the US had more than double that. In addition, its
19. 1:41three rivals had much more population, and gigantic areas from which to draw resources.
20. 1:46And one of the key products in the war was in short supply in Germany, while they were plentiful in
21. 1:50countries like the US and also in the Soviet Union. But if these problems had not existed ...
22. 1:56What would have happened if the Nazis had won the war? This hypothetical axis victory
23. 2:01has already been explored very extensively over the coming decades. At least 35
24. 2:05novels have been written, 5 films have been shot, 6 video games released and 5 series have been shot
25. 2:11on this theme, the most famous being the Amazon series "The Man in the High Castle", in Spain:
26. 2:17"El hombre en el Castillo". But let's analyze the situation before the start of the German defeat. The fact
27. 2:22that Britain is an island meant that the Nazi invasion would have been difficult, without it having
28. 2:27air and sea superiority. But if the Germans had won in the Battle of
29. 2:32Britain and in the evacuation of Dunkirk, it could have altered the end result, whereby
30. 2:37an invasion or a negotiated peace might have been possible. The invasion of the Soviet
31. 2:41Union was Hitler's worst mistake And while it is true that the initial phase of
32. 2:46Operation Barbarossa was smooth sailing for the Nazis, the geography, population and oil
33. 2:51production were firmly against the Nazis. Germans. Despite this, they managed to
34. 2:57capture a huge swath of territory. Things that Germany could have done better, would have
35. 3:01been to bring adequate clothing and winter supplies, make better use of the people they called
36. 3:06"racially inferior" in the captured areas (who also happened to hate the Soviet Union,
37. 3:11as is the case with the Ukrainians) and finally making the seizure of the
38. 3:16Caucasus oil fields a top priority goal. But even fixing these details, the odds of
39. 3:22Nazi victory were low, but not impossible. It would all depend on how the cards were played.
40. 3:27The last big stumbling block for the Germans would be the US With the exception of the Nazis developing
41. 3:32atomic weapons before them, there is no way Germany could have realistically
42. 3:37defeated the US . It had a larger economy than all the Axis powers combined
43. 3:42at its peak, and it also had a much larger population than Germany. In addition, it had enough
44. 3:47oil to supply its own army, navy, and air force. Declaring war on the
45. 3:52US was Hitler's last shot in the foot. Therefore, the best scenario for Germany would have been
46. 3:58a stalemate that will resemble the Cold War. With World War II
47. 4:03now over, Hitler would have the perfect setting to execute his General Eastern Plan and eliminate
48. 4:09what he considered "savage Slavs." These are the percentages to be eliminated from each nation.
49. 4:14In total they planned to murder about 110 million people, 15 million would be deported to
50. 4:20Siberia, and the remaining 54 million would have to be duly "Germanized" to provide
51. 4:27bonded labor, or else they would also be deported. Both he and Himmler estimated
52. 4:32that: "Within 25 years, some 10 million Germans will colonize the new lands." But
53. 4:38the worst luck would be the Jews. Hitler's plan was to completely exterminate them, and
54. 4:43this situation in many countries was already advanced. In countries like Poland, Greece, Lithuania and Yugoslavia
55. 4:49they had already exterminated more than 80% of the Jews. In total, 60% of the Jews living
56. 4:55in these countries were murdered. With the Nazi victory, the almost four million remaining Jews would
57. 5:01have met the same end, that added to the Slavs, the extra death toll caused by
58. 5:06the German victory would have risen to 114 million people. For comparison, the estimated
59. 5:12death toll in WWII is 80 million, which was 3 percent of
60. 5:17the world's population. One third of those deaths were military and two thirds were civilians.
61. 5:22And continuing with the comparisons, this has been the bloodiest war in history. There have only been
62. 5:27five diseases that have killed more people throughout history. Therefore, the
63. 5:32question would be: who would win the cold war between the US and Nazi Germany? The US would finance and
64. 5:39train Russian partisans to fight the Germans. In the 70s, a time of
65. 5:44sexual revolution, hippies and modern art, none of this would be seen in Nazi Europe, which would become
66. 5:50part of an illegal suburban movement. The Cuban missile crisis could have its replacement
67. 5:55in Iceland, which would enter the realm of the Germans to install mid-range missiles
68. 5:59that could reach the US and Canada. Wandering far beyond in time is pure fantasy, as the
69. 6:05different possibilities are endless. But if I had to opt, I would bet on a US victory
70. 6:10in the cold war and the fall of the Nazi regime, thus returning the free market and individual freedom to
71. 6:16Europe . Let's imagine that today's Germany had kept the territories
72. 6:20acquired during the war, taking into account its maximum expansion with the territories occupied
73. 6:25civilly and militarily in the war. We have already counted that by extension it would go from number 64 to being the
74. 6:31tenth largest country. The population jump would be smaller, since it would go from having 83 million in the
75. 6:3717th position to being the fourth most populous in the world, only behind China, India and the US
76. 6:43The 5 most populated metropolitan areas would be Paris, Berlin, Stuttgart , Frankfurt and Katowice,
77. 6:52three of which are in Germany. When it comes to GDP, China would feel it being approached from behind, as
78. 6:57Germany would have about $ 9 trillion, far surpassing Japan on the
79. 7:02way. The thing changes with the GDP per capita, which would fall from 48,200 to 33,400 dollars per year,
80. 7:10an annual income reduced by countries such as Ukraine or Belarus. Christianity would be the
81. 7:15dominant religion , with 73% of the population, of which 14% would be Protestant, 40% Catholic,
82. 7:2315% Orthodox, and 4% other. There would also be 4% of Muslims, 1% of other religions and 21%
83. 7:30would be atheists and agnostics. In military spending, it would rise from number 9 to
84. 7:35third, again behind the US and China, but far behind Saudi Arabia. This spending would
85. 7:41only represent 15% of its GDP, the lowest percentage of the first seven. On the other hand,
86. 7:47the German army would jump 20 positions, from 27 to 7, with 819,000 active soldiers, very
87. 7:54close to Russia. Although if we take into account the military in reserve, it would go down one position, but
88. 7:59it would be placed ahead of the US and would be close to China. In terms of oil production,
89. 8:05Norway's occupation would take them to number 14, as Norway would produce 84% of
90. 8:111,960,000 barrels per day. An estimated 300 million soldiers from around the world
91. 8:17fought in World War II. Do you have a family member who participated? What is your story?
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