@Imperious:
Latin America would have sided with Nazi Germany knowing they (being considered an “inferior” race)
Argentina and Chile were pro axis and had totalitarian governments. Also, Spain was the link to all of them and Hitler had no ill will against Spain. Germany already established glider clubs and many business relationships with them in the 1930’s
How could Spain support Hitler if he had this racial bias against Latin peoples?
I’m not entirely sure of Hitlers feelings towards Spain. Certainly, his feelings were better than towards the Jews or Russians…maybe it was a first things first philosophy? Possibly, Hitler thought of them somewhat as he did the British, with some level of admiration. I do not recall reading anything which might shed light on this, does anyone have any links that might be beneficial?
Still, coming out of the Spanish civil war, which was a proxy battle between the other European powers, Spain was in no mood to fight either for or against Germany. It may be telling however, that Spain refused to allow the Germans transport across the country to take Gibraltar.
I’m also not sure of whether Chile or Argentina were really pro-axis or anti colonialism (given Germany was one of the few great powers without colonies). I’m not too familiar with Latin America during the first half of the 20th century. Maybe some in Latin America might side with Germany…though I personally don’t see why they would do so.
BY the time Hitler might have won against UK and Russia, it would be at a point where they would have their own atomic weapons as well as Japan and I am not sure a B-29 was gonna take off any carrier with that payload. In fact if they even bothered with USA it would be far in the future with a great consolidation of the recent gains.
When would this be? I was thinking along the lines of 1946-48 under an assumption of either or (or both) a peace treaty with Britain and victory over Russia. Clearly no Axis powers would have developed atomic weapons by then. If we are talking 1960 or later, then I could see the Axis having nuclear weapons by then, but I wouldn’t expect the US (and possibly UK/USSR) being unable to either win the war, or at least turn back the Axis in many arenas (N. Africa, Pacific, parts of Asia) well before this timeframe even with an Axis consolidation of large parts of Eurasia.