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What might the world be like if the Axis powers were the victors of World War II?

Counterfactual history is always murky, because its hard to tell what would happen if a certain event happened differently; however, for argument's sake, let's take up the idea that the Germans acquired an atomic bomb and forced the Allies to capitulate either through conquering them or making them vassal states.  The Holocaust would have continued or even broadened in scope to include Africans and Hispanic people.  Either the Nazis or the Japanese would have invaded the United States or forced them to sign peace treaties, perhaps even installing a puppet government in America.  Germany would claim the Soviet Union at least as far as the Brest-Litovsk line of 1918 and would make slaves out of the Slavic people there in order to ensure a permanent, submissive labor force.  Japan would eventually take China and use the Chinese for slaves as well.  Communism would not exist, as all three nations in the Axis deemed this ideology dangerous.  


Over time, however, I think that the Axis powers would have squabbled among themselves and gone to war.  German racial ideology does not go well with the Japanese notion that they should be the rulers of all of Asia.  Italy under Mussolini would have desired more power, as the desire to recreate the Roman Empire would have overlapped the current German one.  In time all sides may have used nuclear weapons on each other.  Of course, this is all counterfactual and merely speculation on my part.  

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