When you wonder about the twisted imagination behind the war, the question that keeps historians awake is: what exact plans Hitler would have rolled out if the Nazis had actually won? Below we break down ten of the most bizarre, horrifying, and oddly specific schemes that were drafted, ready to reshape the world in a fascist image.
How These Plans Hitler Would Have Implemented
10. Returning American Land To The Natives
Although the Nazis were ruthless white supremacists, they oddly showed a degree of acceptance toward Native Americans.
They forged ties with the American Indian Federation, turning the group into fervent Nazi sympathizers. Some members, like the self‑styled “Chief Red Cloud,” even plastered swastikas on their clothing and denounced Jews as “children of Satan,” claiming they controlled the Indian service.
“Chief Red Cloud” was, in fact, a fabricated identity adopted by Portland attorney Elwood A. Towner, a Native American; the genuine Chief Red Cloud died in 1909 and had no connection to Hitler.
The Nazis proclaimed that Native Americans were Aryans, dispatching undercover propaganda agents to the United States to incite a revolt against the government. In exchange, they vowed to return the ancestral lands to the Indigenous peoples.
Whether the promises were genuine or not, many listeners took them seriously. “Chief Red Cloud” (Towner) claimed he could mobilize an army of 750,000 Native Americans ready to fight for Hitler, promising that as soon as a Nazi force set foot on American soil, they would help tear the United States apart.
9. A Giant Space Mirror
One of the strangest Nazi schemes involved a colossal mirror placed in orbit, spanning about 1.6 kilometers (roughly one mile) in diameter and hovering 35,900 kilometers (22,300 miles) above Earth.
The concept resembled a malicious child using a magnifying glass to scorch ants: whenever the Nazis felt offended, they would tilt the mirror to reflect the Sun’s rays onto an adversary’s city, turning the beam into a searing weapon capable of igniting anything it struck.
The design even called for a full‑scale space station within the mirror, housing a crew that would survive on food and oxygen harvested from a cultivated pumpkin crop.
Modern scholars doubt the feasibility of such a weapon, yet the mastermind Hermann Oberth was so confident that after the war he attempted to persuade the Americans to construct it. Had he secured more time, the Nazis might have completed the mirror, casting a terrifying glare over the planet.
8. The Greater East Asia Co‑Prosperity Sphere
Japan, as Germany’s Axis partner, drafted its own sweeping blueprint: the Greater East Asia Co‑Prosperity Sphere. Under this plan, Japan would dominate every region east of the 70th meridian, encompassing most of India and everything beyond.
The sphere’s name sounded benevolent, yet it concealed a brutal agenda. Conquered peoples would be molded into “leaders of their people,” essentially serving as puppets for Japanese rule.
Japan already began rolling out the scheme, presenting it as liberation from Western imperialism under the slogan “Asia for Asiatics.” In reality, the peoples of Asia would be forced to accept Japanese authority.
Japanese would become the official language throughout the Eastern Hemisphere, with teachers dispatched to every school to provide “the guidance of Japanese culture” to young minds. Even Australia and New Zealand would fall under Japanese control, and Hitler believed this would mean the end of every white person living there.
7. A Great Wall Of Baby‑Makers
To counter the looming Japanese bloc, the Nazis envisioned a “living wall” of German colonists stationed along the eastern border, tasked with reproducing at a feverish rate.
Any veteran who had served twelve years in the Nazi army would be dispatched to this frontier, given a farm and a rifle, and ordered to produce as many children as possible.
These soldiers were required to marry local women—German spouses were forbidden—so that the offspring would blend German and local bloodlines, creating a new generation of half‑German children. Hitler demanded each frontline veteran father at least seven children to bolster the population.
6. Pitting America And England Against Each Other
Publicly, Hitler insisted he had no intention of invading the United States, calling the notion “as fantastic as the invasion of the Moon.” He blamed “warmongers” for inflating fear for profit.
Privately, however, he expressed a deep‑seated hatred for Americanism, describing it as “half Judaized, half Negrified.” He believed the United States would eventually turn against Great Britain.
Hitler imagined that once America entered the war, it would seize the chance to assault Britain. He claimed that England and America would eventually go to war with each other, each harboring the greatest possible hatred, and that one of the two nations would have to disappear.
If Britain fell first, Hitler said the United States would face the full might of the Third Reich. Conversely, if America remained standing after Europe’s defeat, the Nazis would force a direct confrontation.
5. Enslaving Eastern Europe
Beyond the Holocaust, the Nazis had a monstrous blueprint for the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe, known as Generalplan Ost, aimed at eradicating their culture and populations.
The first wave targeted leaders: Soviet elites and cultural figures were systematically liquidated to prevent any sense of national pride from surviving.
Had the Nazis conquered Russia, they planned to deport 31 million Slavs to Siberia for forced labor, while a slave‑trade system modeled after American slavery would dispatch many more. To replace them, ten million ethnic Germans would be settled to create racially pure families.
Overall, within thirty years, the regime intended to deport or murder about 50 million people, effectively wiping out nearly every Eastern European.
4. Shooting Gandhi
In 1938, Hitler advised the British foreign minister to “shoot Gandhi,” and if that proved insufficient, to eliminate a dozen leading members of the Indian Congress.
Hitler regarded Indians as a “lower race” destined for Aryan domination, and he believed that, should the Nazis seize world power, Gandhi’s non‑violent resistance would be crushed.
During the war, Subhas Chandra Bose sought Hitler’s support for an Indian revolt against the British, rallying thousands. However, Hitler’s deep‑seated prejudices meant he never deployed Bose’s forces.
Instead, Bose allied with Japan, and India was slated to become part of the Greater East Asia Co‑Prosperity Sphere. If the Nazis later overran Japan, Hitler’s earlier declaration indicated that India would face harsh Aryan rule.
3. Enslaving All British Men
As Britain resisted, Hitler’s admiration for the English spirit waned, giving way to a desire to devastate their lives.
Under Nazi rule, every able‑bodied male aged 17‑45 would be transferred to continental Europe for forced labor, while women and children would remain at home until the boys turned seventeen.
All personal property would be confiscated, and any resistance would be met with immediate execution.
Heinrich Himmler even contemplated a more extreme measure: exterminating 80 percent of the British population as soon as the nation fell.
2. Letting Muslims Rule The Middle East
Surprisingly, Hitler expressed a preference for Islam over Christianity, declaring that the Mohammedan faith would have been more compatible with Nazi Germany.
Initially, he promised the Middle East to Italy, but later aligned with Haj Amin al‑Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who shared enemies: the British, Jews, and Communists.
Al‑Husseini sought to lead a fascist uprising against the British, but Hitler instructed him to wait until the war with the USSR concluded. Nonetheless, they collaborated on a death squad targeting Jews in Palestine.
When the Nazis faced defeat, Hitler blamed the loss on insufficient cooperation with Muslim allies, lamenting that he could have “emancipated the Moslem countries.” Had the Nazis triumphed, the Middle East would have become a region where fascism and Islam co‑ruled.
1. Converting Eastern Europe Into Jehovah’s Witnesses
While the Nazis were not planning to make the entire empire Muslim, Heinrich Himmler envisioned converting Eastern Europe to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Although the regime murdered tens of thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses in concentration camps, Himmler admired the group’s fanatic work ethic combined with pacifism, believing it could be harnessed for Germany’s benefit.
He ordered Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner to promote the religion throughout Eastern Europe, hoping the Witnesses’ dedication would strengthen the Nazi state while their pacifist stance would curb violent resistance.
Thus, under a victorious Nazi world order, the continent would have endured slavery, genocide, and advanced weapons, alongside a surprising prevalence of Jehovah’s Witnesses.