How long would an American-Nazi Cold War last?

Imagine, that, somehow, Nazi Germany was able to defeat the Soviet Union, however North Africa still fell to the Allies and Japan was still defeated in the Pacific, and then the USA and Nazi Germany got in a Cold War. How long would this Cold War last? How long would Nazi Germany survive?
 
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Imagine, that, somehow, Nazi Germany was able to defeat the Soviet Union, however North Africa still fell to the Allies and Japan was still defeated in the Pacific, and then the USA and Nazi Germany got in a Cold War. How long would this Cold War last? How long would Nazi Germany survive?

To this da. Nazi Germany wouldn't fall like the USSR.
 
I can't imagine the Nazi system surviving the death of Hitler, or at least, not for long. There were too many mini-empires within the military, industry, bureaucracy, etc, and the loyalty oaths were to Hitler rather than Germany.
 
The Nazi system was incredibly self destructive and unsustainable(which is why I honestly don't see any long-term Nazi win scenario to be terribly realistic). Sure, they might run europe, up to the Urals, but their plans would have left most of it an empty, useless wasteland. I give the whole thing till Hitler's death before a combination of economic implosion and infighting brings the whole thing down. Goering's hardly going to be able to keep this clownshow running at that point. And Hitler was never in great health, though I guess he might have fewer issues if the Germans somehow keep winning.
 
Let someone else Sieg heil, and yell at the volkshall. I’m talking about quietly, without fuss. Like the Andropov era technocrats, of the late 70’s.
 
Exactly long enough for the US and Brits to launch an amphibious landing? The Soviets only developed the atomic bomb as fast as they did because they were spying on the american effort. With the Nazi distaste for "jewish science", they won't get the bomb before the allies can launch an amphibious force to liberate france.
 
Exactly long enough for the US and Brits to launch an amphibious landing? The Soviets only developed the atomic bomb as fast as they did because they were spying on the american effort. With the Nazi distaste for "jewish science", they won't get the bomb before the allies can launch an amphibious force to liberate france.

The USA and the UK probably wouldn't launch an amphibious attack if there was no Eastern Front. How could they liberate almost all of Europe?
 
The USA and the UK probably wouldn't launch an amphibious attack if there was no Eastern Front. How could they liberate almost all of Europe?

With superior technology, logistics, and total control over the air and seas? It would have been extremely bloody and extremely difficult, but still doable. Plus, as the other poster said, Nukes.
 
That assumes, that, the USA and the UK would be willing to launch at least dozens of nukes, some of them in occupied countries.

Why would they need to nuke occupied countries? The most important targets for nukes are in the territories of the actual axis nations, and the rest can be dealt with through conventional attacks. I doubt anyone's going to have an issue nuking Axis cities.
 
Why would they need to nuke occupied countries? The most important targets for nukes are in the territories of the actual axis nations, and the rest can be dealt with through conventional attacks. I doubt anyone's going to have an issue nuking Axis cities.

With the Nazis controlling territory from France to the Urals, lauching nukes only on German cities wouldn't convince them to surrender.
 
At best you might get the Nazis lasting into the 60s. The Nazi regime was hyper-aggressive in a way the USSR never was. Unlike the Soviets, who got their nukes as a deterrent the Nazis would be using theirs as a first strike.
 
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