What was Hitler's ultimate goal?
Hitler's main goals were to gain Lebensraum for the Germanic peoples. This would be done through the unification of all Germanic peoples (Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Dutch, Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes) and the colonization of Eastern Europe and Russia all the way up to the Ural Mountains. Like so: The natives of these areas were to be used as slaves for German settlers, deported to Siberia, exterminated, or if they were deemed to be sufficiently Aryan, forced to breed with Germans. Different ethnicities were seen as Aryan in varying levels so were to be killed in higher or lower percentages accordingly. Like so:And of course, all Jews were to be exterminated. Hitler acknowledged that Germany would need perhaps 100 years to digest all this new land while Japan would need as much to secure Asia. There weren't really detailed plans after this for obvious reasons of Hitler being long dead in 2045. However, a government built on such an expansionist mindset could well be expected to act aggressively again.Besides this main goal of Lebensraum, Hitler wanted to cripple France permanently so that it could never threaten Germany again. He never had much against the British, seeing as they were members of the Germanic race as well and wished to have peace with them. Meanwhile, he saw America as an abomination - a nation filled with wealthy and powerful Jews where cultural and racial mixing occurred regularly like with jazz music. What he aimed to do with these regions in the far future is obviously up for debate.
Any interesting facts about D-DAY?
The fact that Germany's main commanders were unable to respond immediately. Adolf Hitler, who had put together a convoluted command structure that was designed to make sure that Hitler made every decision both tactically and strategically in the defense of Fortress Europe was asleep for most fo the Allied landings. This kept many German reserve units that were in the Normandy area inactive for most of the day, making sure that Germany had nothing to counter attack with while the Allies were disorganized. Erwin Rommel, the commander of the German Seventh Army was also absent from the battlefield on June 6, 1944. Believing the bad weather that had been plaguing the Allies would continue, Rommel returned to Germany for his wife's birthday or wedding anniversary. When informed of the Allied landings he rushed back, but did not arrive in time to have any adequate information on what to do to counter the landings. The Allied mis-drops and bungling of the landing operations, particularly in the American sector actually helped them. The Airborne units spread confusion behind the German lines and were for the most part able to secure the most important objectives because of this. On Utah Beach, Teddy Roosevelt Jr. found that his men had landed in the wrong spot on the map, BUT discovered that by landing in the wrong spot, they were in a better position to take out the fortifications that overlooked where they were supposed to have landed. TR Jr is famously quoted as saying, "the war starts here." The first naval salvos that marked the beginning of the D-Day landings were fired not by American or British Warships but by a French cruiser who's crew and commander had joined De Gaulle's Free French. Contrary to many stories, the French people were grateful for the arrival of the Allies. British units reported encountering a French civilian offering to share Champagne with the landing Allied Units. One British unit landed with its regimental band, including a man in a Scottish kilt and bagpipes. The piper played his pipes and lead the British advance and was never shot at. When he had the later opportunity to meet with German D-Day veterans from that area, he inquired why they never shot at him. He was told by the German veterans that they thought he was a stupid person and didn't want to waste their bullets on a stupid person.
Why did the Germans not use chemical weapons against Allied forces despite having production ready weapons?
Adolf Hitler once attempted to make nuclear weapons but this German Nuclear Weapon project came to an end thanks to the Norwegian Resistance Fighters who tried two~three times to break the ‘heavy water’ plant. Vemork Hydroelectric Plant was in Vemork, Tinn in the snowy and cliff terrain mountains. It was the perfect and easy spot to defend and easy to protect. This was the only factory in operation around the whole world producing the heavy water, which the Nazis took over during WWII. This could’ve led to a worldwide disaster but it was the four Norwegian Resistance fighters who saved Europe.Vemork Hydroelectric plant in 1935First, by parachute, the four Norwegian Resistance fighters were deployed some way away from the Plant. They skied for days until one night, while some of them were on the watch under the bridge that led to the plant, some used pipes to go into the basement where the heavy water was being made. They planted explosives and it was successful. But the British Intelligence (which the Norwegian Resistance worked with), got information that it was back up running after a few months.This time, American bomber planes deployed many bombs on the plant which killed a few hundred Nazis but the heavy water machinery was not damaged since it was stored away in the basement.The Nazis sensing the fear, decided to ship the machinery away to their motherland in Germany. They figured out that it was going with a public ferry with civilians. Although the Norwegian Resistance were not keen of killing innocent civilians and sent this via a morse code telegram but the British Intelligence said they had to.Few days later, the ferry left and at the set time, the bomb blew up and the heavy water carrying public ferry with innocent civilians went down the cold waters.This operation was called the Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage.
Which leader made a bigger impact on world history, Woodrow wilson or V.I. Lenin? why so?
Lenin, plain and simple. Lenin planted the seeds that would eventually grow into communism in Russia, which would be the cause of the Cold War, the USSR, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and skirmishes in the Middle East. The Cold War heavily influenced American policy and was the most prominent issue for decades. Woodrow Wilson, who was president during WWI was an academic who, while important, had little effect on the eras after his death. One could argue that, had Wilson had his way, he would have had a much bigger impact on history. Wilson had a series of policies called the Fourteen Points, which were far less punitive towards Germany than the Treaty of Versailles, which was implemented. Had the Fourteen Points been implemented instead, it would have fostered a less aggressive relationship with Germany. Because Germany had been so maligned after WWI, frustrated, poverty-stricken Germans rallied behind Hitler. Under the 14 pts., Germany would have had a chance to prosper and would likely not have embraced Hitler's ideology. Edit: Also, as Lenin paved the way for Stalin, he had an indirect hand in the resolution of WWI, as without Russia's help, it would have been far more difficult to defeat the axis powers. This had a major impact on the world economy, and catapulted America and other developed nations into the Superpower category.