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Adolf Hitler was confident of victory. The Nazis didn’t just bring battle strategies and weapons into World War II; they envisioned a new world order. Once the war and its horrors were over, they aimed to establish a fascist empire across a shattered Europe.
The Nazis had already drafted the plans for their new world. Had Hitler’s strategy succeeded, our world today would have looked vastly different. In many ways, the Nazi-controlled global order would defy expectations.
10. Returning American Land To Native Hands
While the Nazis were notorious for their genocidal white supremacist views, they took an unexpectedly tolerant stance toward Native Americans. Once they conquered America, the Nazis pledged to return American land to the indigenous people.
They had partnered with a group known as the American Indian Federation, winning over its members as fascist sympathizers. Some took their support even further, becoming extreme Nazi supporters—such as 'Chief Red Cloud,' who wore a swastika and delivered speeches claiming Jews were 'children of Satan' and responsible for 'controlling the Indian service.'
(The name 'Chief Red Cloud' was actually a pseudonym used by Portland attorney Elwood A. Towner, who was of Native American descent. The real Chief Red Cloud passed away in 1909 and had no connection to Hitler.)
The Nazis were highly impressed with the actions of their Native American supporters. They even went so far as to declare Native Americans as Aryans, sending covert propaganda agents to the U.S. to persuade them to rise up against the American government. In return, the Nazis promised to give Native Americans their land back.
Whether or not the Nazis were truthful, their words were heard by many. 'Chief Red Cloud' (Towner) asserted that he had an army of 750,000 Native Americans ready to fight for Hitler. He claimed that once a Nazi army entered American soil, they would assist him in dismantling the United States.
9. A Massive Space Mirror
One of the most peculiar Nazi ideas was the concept of a colossal space mirror, which was precisely as it sounds. The plan was to place a massive mirror, 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) across, in orbit 35,900 kilometers (22,300 miles) above Earth. Had they been given more time, they might have made it a reality.
The plan resembled a cruel child's game of burning ants with a magnifying glass. Whenever the Nazis were enraged, they planned to angle the mirror to focus the Sun’s rays on the city of their target. The idea was that these rays would turn into beams of intense heat, setting anything they touched ablaze.
The Nazis even planned to turn it into a full space station. They intended to keep a crew aboard the mirror permanently, subsisting on food and oxygen harvested from a crop of pumpkins.
There are some doubts today about whether this idea would have been feasible. However, the scientist behind it, Hermann Oberth, was so convinced it would work that, after the war, he attempted to get the Americans to build it. If he'd had more time, the Nazis probably would have completed the project, and the world would have lived under the shadow of a massive mirror in the sky.
8. The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Japan, naturally, had its own ambitions. In their strategic meetings, the Nazis and the Japanese had already divided the world, agreeing that Japan would control everything east of the 70th meridian—securing most of India and all territories beyond it.
Japan’s empire was to be known by the seemingly benign name 'The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.' It was an empire wrapped in pleasant-sounding terms designed to mask its dark and oppressive nature. The people of each conquered nation would be molded into 'leaders of their people' by becoming puppet rulers of Japanese-controlled states.
They had already begun to implement their plan. The Japanese marketed it as 'independence' from Western imperialism, using the slogan 'Asia for Asiatics.' But in reality, the people of Asia would have been forced to accept Japanese domination.
Japanese would have been the official language across the entire Eastern Hemisphere, and Japanese educators would be placed in every school. Their mission would have been to instill 'the guidance of Japanese culture' in the minds of the youth within the Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Australia and New Zealand, too, would have fallen under Japanese control. If the Nazis had triumphed in the war, Hitler believed it would signal the end of every white person living in those regions.
7. A Monumental Wall of Baby-Makers
The Nazis planned to defend against the emerging Japanese empire starting at the 70th meridian east. They were convinced that, in time, a conflict would arise between the two global superpowers, and they needed to be fully prepared when that moment arrived.
The strategy was to create a 'living wall' of German settlers along the border, who would be encouraged to reproduce at an extraordinary rate. Any man who had served 12 years in the Nazi army would be sent to the eastern frontier, given land and a firearm, and instructed to father as many children as possible.
The men in this procreation-focused squad of Nazi veterans were required to marry local women. They couldn’t bring German wives with them. The goal was to mix the gene pool on the border and raise a new generation of half-German children. For this plan to succeed, the Nazi soldiers were expected to spend a significant amount of time in the bedroom. For the good of the nation, Hitler demanded that each man on the eastern front father at least seven children.
6. Pitting America and England Against One Another
Despite privately telling Chief Red Cloud otherwise, Hitler publicly denied having any intentions of invading the United States. He once told a Life magazine reporter that such an idea was 'as fantastic as the invasion of the Moon.' He attributed the fear to 'warmongers' who believed that fear was 'profitable for business.'
However, when the Americans weren't paying attention, Hitler's rhetoric took a darker turn. He once told his staff, 'My feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance. Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half Negrified.'
Still, Hitler didn't believe an invasion of America would be necessary. Before America entered the war, he was certain they would seize the opportunity to attack Great Britain. When they eventually joined the conflict, he argued that it was merely part of a grand scheme to take down the British.
Regardless of how the war ended, Hitler was convinced that the Americans would eventually attack Britain. He felt he wouldn’t need to invade the United States, as the British would do it for him. 'England and America will one day have a war with one another which will be waged with the greatest hatred imaginable,' Hitler declared. 'One of the two countries will have to disappear.'
If the Americans didn’t act on their own, Hitler vowed to force their hand. Should the US remain intact after Europe fell to the Nazis, they would have to face the full wrath of the Third Reich.
5. Enslaving Eastern Europe
It’s no surprise that the Nazis were determined to exterminate every Jewish person on Earth, but their genocidal ambitions didn’t stop there. The Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe were the next group deemed 'racially undesirable' and targeted for elimination. By the time the war ended, Hitler had already begun putting some of these plans into action.
This operation was known as Generalplan Ost, a systematic campaign aimed at eradicating the Slavs and their culture. The first phase involved eliminating the leaders. Before the war ended, the Nazis were already moving to 'liquidate' Soviet elites and cultural figures—anyone who might inspire the people of Eastern Europe to maintain their cultural identity.
Had the Nazis conquered Russia, they intended to deport 31 million Slavs to Siberia, where they would be forced into slave labor camps. Others would be subjected to a slave trade system modeled after American slavery. In place of these populations, 10 million ethnic Germans were to be relocated to create new, racially pure families.
Within three decades, the Nazis planned for 50 million people to either be deported to slave camps or killed. Nearly the entire population of Eastern Europe was set to be eradicated.
4. Shooting Gandhi
In 1938, before World War II erupted, Hitler offered some unsolicited advice to the British foreign minister. “Shoot Gandhi,” he suggested. “And if that doesn’t do the job of subduing them, shoot a dozen of the top leaders of the Congress.”
Hitler believed that the British were being far too lenient with Mahatma Gandhi’s peaceful protests. He regarded the Indian people as a “lower race” that needed to be dominated under Aryan rule—and had he succeeded in taking over the world, he intended to put this brutal advice into practice.
As the war continued, Hitler’s deep-seated contempt for India led to some missed opportunities. Subhas Chandra Bose, leading a resistance army, traveled to Berlin and offered his support for an Indian uprising against the British. Though he had thousands of volunteers ready to fight, Hitler’s racial prejudices were so entrenched that he never used them in battle.
In the end, Bose allied with the Japanese, and India became a part of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. However, if a third world war had occurred and the Nazis had conquered Japan, Hitler had already made it clear what the fate of the Indian people would be under Nazi rule.
3. Converting Eastern Europe Into Jehovah’s Witnesses
But the Nazi empire wasn’t going to be entirely Muslim. If Heinrich Himmler had his way, Eastern Europe would have been converted to a very different religion: Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The Nazis executed tens of thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses in concentration camps. However, despite the mass killings, Himmler had a bizarre respect for the religion. “If their fanaticism could be harnessed for Germany,” he once remarked, “we would be stronger than we are today!”
In Himmler's view, Jehovah's Witnesses embodied the perfect blend of fanatical work ethic and pacifism—traits that would ensure their diligent labor while preventing them from actively resisting the fascist regime. He even instructed one of his officers, Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, to propagate the religion throughout Eastern Europe.
This would have been the bizarre reality under a global Nazi rule—slavery, genocide, and weapons of mass destruction coexisting alongside a significant presence of Jehovah's Witnesses.
2. Letting Muslims Rule The Middle East
Hitler was unexpectedly favorable toward Muslims. Both he and Heinrich Himmler expressed dissatisfaction with Germany's Christian identity. Hitler remarked, “The Mohammedan religion would have been much more compatible with us than Christianity.”
Initially, Hitler had promised the Middle East to Italy. However, as the war progressed, his stance shifted. He found a like-minded ally in Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who informed him that they shared common enemies: “The English, the Jews, and the Communists.”
Al-Husseini sought to lead a fascist uprising against the British, but Hitler advised him to wait until the conflict with the USSR had concluded. Despite this, they had already formed a pact and were collaborating to dispatch a death squad to Palestine with the aim of exterminating every Jew there.
As it became clear that the Nazis were on the verge of defeat, Hitler blamed the failure on not forging stronger ties with the Muslim world—particularly after Italy's betrayal. “We could have liberated the Moslem nations,” Hitler lamented. “Imagine what we could have done to aid them!”
Had the Nazis reversed their fortunes and emerged victorious, Hitler intended to do just that. He planned to transform the Middle East into a region where fascism and Islam coexisted and thrived together.
1. Enslaving All British Men
As the war dragged on and the British continued to resist surrender, Hitler's admiration for the English spirit began to diminish. Eventually, his goal shifted to simply destroying their way of life—and he already had a strategy in mind for how to achieve it.
If Britain had succumbed to Nazi rule, a new decree would have been enacted. All able-bodied men aged 17 to 45 would be transported to continental Europe, where they would be forced into slave labor.
Women and children would remain in their homes—at least until the boys reached 17. However, everything they owned would be plundered, and anyone who dared to defy Nazi authority would be executed immediately.
It was a horrifying proposal, but not the most extreme. Heinrich Himmler had more drastic plans in mind. He had intended to eradicate 80 percent of the population outright as soon as England was conquered.
