AHC: Operation Sealion succeeds - without the invasion

With a POD in 1939, make the UK submit to peace terms with Nazi Germany and end the European War in the western front - essentially, the operation succeeds because it was diplomatic, not military. Bonus if the peace terms leads to a British civil war, in which the Nazis are "forced" to intervene
 
I guess a stronger bombing campaign would have demoralised Britain far more. There'd have to be a military element to forcing the UK's submission.
 
The nazi government as one that could still be trusted. There had been so many betrayals along the way very few British leaders saw any chance of finding a useful peace agreement. When Hitler made his peace feelers in the summer of 1940 no one in the British government stuck their neck out and said something like "Maybe we can take them seriously this time?". Or "I'm sure we can trust them now!".
 

thorr97

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Hitler doesn't dither about Dunkirk and also have no Churchill in power.

With either no or hardly any of the British Army extricated from the Continent, the British would've lost all but one or two of their combat capable units and definitely lost all of their best troops. Yes, the totality of the British Army was really that small at the time.

With no Churchill to provide the spine, the British political establishment may well have collapsed into the same sort of jelly-like puddle that the French political establishment did.

Throw in some superficially "reasonable" promises from the Nazis and that would've been it.
 

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Hitler's terms are to keep Poland, Denmark and the Low Countries and part of NE France. Puts Germany in a good but not overwhelming position.
 
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