... to knock out England and take their empire, where the West had figured that he would take over the Soviet Union and then they would—the British Empire and the American Empire—could expand.
... empire, where the West had figured that he would take over the Soviet Union and then they would—the British Empire and the American Empire—could expand.
... and they knew that Harry Truman had expressed himself many times as wanting Hitler to go fight the Soviets. And since that was the preferred American policy, they had installed him as vice president in 1944 ...