Luftwaffe over America

The plans that Nazi Germany had to raid & bomb NYC & the eastern seabord are revealed in this book. They depended upon the use of transoceanic aircraft, such as the 6-engined Ju 390, Me 264 or Ta 400, but the 3rd Reich was unable to produce these machines in sufficient numbers. If the USSR had been conquered, however, these plans would have become a reality. With the seizure of vital resources from the USSR the Wehrmacht would have had enough fuel & material to mass-produce giant bomber aircraft: it was a near-run thing. The collapse of the Wehrmacht infrastructure & the premature end of the 1000-Year Reich ensured that plans for long-range remote-controlled missiles never got past the drawing board. Manfred Griehl makes it clear that until the collapse numerous secret research laboratories seem to have worked in parallel developing nuclear power & explosives. Only classified material held within British, French & American archives can prove whether these laboratories were close to perfecting small atomic explosives. But, beyond a shadow of a doubt, Germany was far more technologically advanced by the end of 1944 than previously suspected.