Why do people say that we'd all be speaking German if we'd lost WWII?

Most Germans know how to speak English right now.

It's not that English would be forgotten, it would be that German would become the official language used in education, commerce, government, etc. For example, what happened to the Irish language.

The Nazis were big on trying to erase/rewrite history and replace everything with their own twisted version of how it should be. A lot like ISIS and Liberals.

That's just a ridiculous concept that people invented to make us grateful for the "freedom" that winning the War gave us.

The whole Third Reich thing would have fizzled in revolt.

The United States lost the war in Vietnam and yet we aren't all speaking Vietnamese.

ahem, you forgot about japan. we might all be speaking japanese. football and basketball would never become a real sports. we would see a lot more running: post-college team events and ekidens. the u.s. of japan would have a lot of sub 29 men/33 women 10k runners.

Never happen. Ever read Man in the High Castle? They spoke English in all three territories.

vietnam was not wwiii

The Vietnam War was a very different beast to WWII.

Vietnam was not threatening to attack the US but rather the US invaded Vietnam to try and curb it falling under communist rule backed by the USSR. It was essentially a proxy war of opposing ideologies.

The US of course sent thousands of young men to their grave in a foreign country that was alien to them and that they had no concept of how to fight in.

The US lost that war but not before thousands of body bags started returning home and the US position became untenable. Sadly the lessons of Vietnam have still not been learned and it's an ugly stain in the USA's history.

Thankfully, the UK, at least that time stayed out of it.

You will eat a pretzel mit mustard, and you will like it.

If someone describes a sports team as "being on fire" do you think those people are burning to death? When you hear about a runner "putting the hammer down" do you think they were running a race with a hammer and then placed it on the ground at the last mile marker?

Even if Hitler defeated Russia in '41/42, and England in '42, it is very unlikely that anything other than a stalemate would have resulted with the U.S.. Long-term, they may have sieged our shipping and tried to cut us off from any outside trade to the East and South, but by '45/46 we would have had the A-bomb and better strategic capability. They could have had nuclear weapons as well, but with poor long-range delivery. Anything beyond a mid-long-term standoff with Germany is too speculative.

Our war with Japan would have continued without much abatement, in fact, it seems likely that no longer supplying Russian and England would have freed up more resources for the Pacific Theater, if anything. A German victory coupled with a Japanese defeat would have possibly created a front in Manchuria/China.

The Man in the High Castle is now a new TV series that is highly rated--8.3 on IMDB.

www.imdb.com/title/tt1740299/

The Man in the High Castle wrote:

The Man in the High Castle is now a new TV series that is highly rated--8.3 on IMDB.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740299/

I'm 4 episodes in and bored out of my mind. Probably will read the book.

The focus so far on a very few individuals, many very minor playas, is much too narrow, but it is easy to see how that helps keeps production costs under control.

Hitler's goal was to establish the Greater German Reich, not take over the entire world. The Greater German Reich was supposed to be about half of France and most of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. The pacifist argument against WWII was to just negotiate with Hitler for the release of and safe passage for the Jews in exchange for giving away some of Hitler's advances (Austria, etc.). This would have been a far favorable alternative than the 50-80 million people who lost their lives in WWII.

So, to the original question, we would not be speaking German if we lost WWII. It was never Hitler's goal to take over the United States.

Well look at the converse. Continental Europe lost WWII and now they're all speaking English.

F U C K Y O U Johnathan.

Precious Roy wrote:

So, to the original question, we would not be speaking German if we lost WWII. It was never Hitler's goal to take over the United States.

No but German could have overtaken English as a dominant language of science and business like French and Latin were before English. In that sense all educated people would be speaking German.

Blah Blah Blah Blah wrote:

The United States lost the war in Vietnam and yet we aren't all speaking Vietnamese.

ROFL!!!