N00BWI: how might Sealion succeed?
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The Nazis capturing and brainwashing Superman still sounds like the most realistic option to me!
And use the search function, mate:
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And use the search function, mate:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/search.php?searchid=1187187
Have someone other than the Germans do it (i.e. someone with the necessary industrial capacity. Operation "Morskoy Lyev" anyone? )
Admiral Canaris
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They should just've let Skorzeny and Rommel and Manstein do it all. And Speer should've run the industries.
Austria produces Red Bull earlier than OTL, some crazy nazi bartender creates a prototype Jägerbomb, which quickly becomes the SS elite's drink of choice. It makes them more vigourous, and by the grace of St. Hubert, they swim across the channel... Churchill is hooked on Jägerbombs, and declares Germany as a perennial ally.
Admiral Canaris
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Send in commandos by U-boat and have them execute all British officers and politicians.
It's because they are so slow moving and the noise they make means they can't launch a surprise attack
It could have worked if they had simplied planned to invade England prior to 1940. They had no plan in place and there were no preperations being made until the fall of france was guarenteed. But diverting resources to a naval invasion force would mean that another area would be lacking. I think if they took the time to develop a really good land based naval attack aircraft to atleast hold the Royal Navy off. If they planned and had time for the preperations it could have worked. It would mean abondoning the invasion of the USSR, and I wouldn't be suprised by the time all the men needed to supress the Brittish Isle were on the ground there that the Soviets would have launched there secret attack which they were planning on doing at some point. So it would be possible but would probablly have no bearing on the war. The only reason the Allies invaded main land europe was to secure western europe from the Soviets, by that time most higher ups knew it was a matter of time before the Soviets would win. I think the reason the Germans scrapped it was because what is to gain by capturing GB? THe loss of men would be great and at the time the UK possed little threat to the Germans anymore. I think they realized they had bigger fish to fry, so it is ASB to think that Sealowe would have worked before the fall of the USSR because there is so little to gain with the fall of Brittish Isle compared with the conquest of USSR.