IBM, Disney, Bush: Nazis?

[Dave Monroe]

Interestingly, that the U.S. might never have declared
war on Nazi Germany even while at war with Imperial
Japan is the allohistorical premise of ...

Gingrich, Newt and William R. Fortschen.  1945.
   New York: Baen Books, 1995.

Can't recall just how that happens, but ... but
unfortunately (for my morbid curiosity, at any rate),
the promised sequel, to be titled (duh) 1946, was
apprently never written.  It certainly wasn't
published.  

Particularly interesting, however, is 1945's
fetishization of otherwise unrealized Luftwaffe
projects (although I could swear it implied there were
jets at its Pearl Harbor, even).  Which reminds me ...

http://www.luft46.com

And check yr local listings for that "Secret Weapons
of the Third Reich" or whatever series that aired on
The History channel (a.k.a. The Hitler Channel).  "Ah,
the Luftwaffe.  The Washington Generals of the History
Channel," as The Washington Post opined ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:

> And the U.S. (and thus any corporation registered in
> the U.S.?), by virtue
> of its neutrality, continued to (or, at least,
> theoretically could) do
> business with Nazi Germany right up until Pearl
> Harbour in Dec '41. Or so it
> might be argued. And even then it took an extra two
> days for them to declare
> war on Germany and Italy after the declaration
> against Japan! Who knows, if
> the Japanese *hadn't* bombed the U.S. Pacific Fleet
> -- and it was totally
> unexpected and pretty dumb that they did -- the U.S.
> govt might *never* have
> entered the European War at all, and then where
> would we be?

In the "Gingrich" and Fortschen novel, the U.S. is
nonetheless dragged into the conflict, as the Reich,
fearing what might well be an inevitable conflict,
stages a pre-emptive commando strike against the still
ongoing, albeit somewhat less urgent Manhattan
project.    

But here's an interesting sequence ...

http://www.luft46.com/visphoto/ks18-5.jpg

http://www.luft46.com/visphoto/ks18-9.jpg

http://www.luft46.com/visphoto/ks18-6.jpg

http://www.luft46.com/visphoto/ks18-7.jpg

And I imagine that, had you been born at all, you'd be
speaking Japanese alongside your antipodean English ...

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