AH Challenge: Uber Seelowe, A German invasion of America.

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4b. could the usa shift to a production/war footing?
4c. why - WHY - would germany invade the usa?

5. what are the other players (major and minor) doing/thinking at this point?

I will come back later and edit this mess. just wanted to put those thoughts out there for discussion.
 
Can only be done with a super desaster hitting the US. Something like a big yellowstone erruption and germany starts to look vor lebensraum somewhere else.
 
With a PoD no earlier han 1933 and no later than 1945 you challenge is, by 1950 have the Germans launch an invasion of the USA.

Bonus points if they manage to hold a beachead.

Having the Germans in a place to launch an invasion of the USA shouldn't be that ASB. Especially since the OP's bonus point implies that the invasion doesn't have to be successful.

So, here's my first idea. Early 1942, the UK is at relative peace with Germany and Italy. The USA is being hostile and protective of the western Atlantic. Following the Japanese attacks on the USA, the Atlantic Fleet has had to transfer warships to the Pacific. This leaves the USA in a moment of relative weakness in the Caribbean. So, Hitler and Mussolina, sensing easy pickings, decide to invade Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands. Perhaps they feel they can intimidate the Americans into being nicer to Germany and Italy. Vichy French islands are used as the launching points for the invasion.

Such an invasion may also be a way to cover an attempt to take...can't remember the name of the Dutch colony north of Venezuela with the oil facilities... that place.

Edit: Oh yes, the UK sees this as its big chance to get back in the war. After all, no where does it say this invasion has to be a good thing for Germany. :)
 
Small scale

IMVHO, any real large scale invasion is ASB. But a small scale invasion would be quite possible.

A few commandos could be put asore from u-boats to blow things up and create terror. Some choke points would be quite vulnerable, certain bridges in particular. Or, a Halifax scale explosion or two could be effective...

Alternatively, in the mid 1930's Hitler decides that war with the US is inevitable, and decides to create a "Ghost Brigade"

These men move to the USA in time of peace, adn vanish. When war breaks out, they get to work. Clandestine sabateurs are one option, but the Ghost Brigade has a different purpose--to be an armed force that pops up, does its work, and vanishes. They don uniform, do some harm--and leave some survivors to report--and vanish. Repeat somewhere else, a while later. Or, as Congress is declaring war, assault the Capitol.

Risky, and all of the elite used for it should be conmsidered lost, but an invasion that might actually do some harm.
 
Easy: the OKW reads Hitler's Barbarossa order to "invade and subjugate the SU" as "invade and subjugate Syracuse University". A fleet of submarines is prepared in early 1941 to carry an assault team. They land on the New Jersey shore at night and don civilian clothes. Commandeering a truck, they drive to Syracuse, NY, and conquer the University using sturm tactics, holding it until the eventual US Army arrival, surrounding them and killing them all. :D :p ;)
 
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