A fantastical German propaganda map shows the fears being cultivated around British and Japanese power. Its renamed cities and partitioned continent document the political story being sold, while the proposed conquest bears little resemblance to a credible British war plan. The scale of the United States, the logistics an invader would need, and the limited strategic return all work against invasion. Raids against the coast fit the British approach described here, but sustained occupation poses a different order of difficulty. Repeated German propaganda is also judged to have embarrassed German Americans and weakened its own appeal. A workable counterfactual therefore requires American escalation while Britain tries to avoid an unnecessary second front.
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Propaganda maps versus the logistics of invading America
German anti-British propaganda imagines the partition of the United States, while the logistical comparison separates plausible coastal raids from an implausible conquest.