The London Daily Mail reaches back in time to hit a nerve that\u2019s a lot closer to reality than the genre of \u201calternate history.\u201d The question is, what if Axis forces had invaded the United States during World War II? \u00a0Explore the disturbing possibilities here: http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2032699\/What-Nazis-invaded-America-Maps-published-1942-Life-issue-detailed-plans-Hitler-invasion-U-S.html
\n\u200bThere are obvious reasons why the Nazis never got close to landing an invasion force on the East Coast of the United States: Hitler bit off way more than he could chew on his Eastern Front. \u00a0Even in Europe, Hitler\u2019s own generals talked him out of invading contiguous Switzerland, because they knew that nation\u2019s disciplined armed citizenry would devour the invaders. \u00a0Every village had a rifle range, every able-bodied adult male had an army rifle, ammunition, and the skill to use it, and within 24 hours the mountain passes would be dynamited by the defenders. It would have been \u201cinvader motel,\u201d as it were\u2026 \u201cThey check in, but they don\u2019t check out.\u201d
\n\u200bAmerica\u2019s West Coast was much more vulnerable to the Japanese, particularly after the devastating sucker punch of Pearl Harbor, but we know now that they never seriously considered following up with a boots-on-the-ground invasion. \u00a0And it is clear that one reason is, they knew the level of citizen resistance they would meet in \u201cthe Nation of Riflemen.\u201d One of their military leaders allegedly said, \u201cThere would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.\u201d Hyperbole, perhaps\u2026but certainly at least a rifle in every American farmhouse, and at least one around every corner of every city street. Circa 1960, one Japanese naval officer told an American counterpart why they had not invaded the Continental US: they were not fools, he said, to set foot in such quicksand.
\n\u200bWhen there are still Americans who lived the memory of that terrible war \u2013 while there are still Holocaust survivors among us \u2013 it is sad indeed to see how many obvious lessons have been lost in so short a time. Thank you, Daily Mail, for reminding the world of the value of an armed citizenry to national security.
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