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I am sure this has been discussed on this board before but I thought I would ask peoples thoughts on what happens next as Hitler expected the British would accept his, what he saw as reasonably generous surrender terms in 1940, and in some ways the terms were generous. There was a lot of debate among British politicians to surrender but it was through people like Churchill and others that this surrender never happened.

My question is what would have happened had the British surrendered?

What I am thinking is that the Soviet campaign would have gone quite differently as without the British continuing the fight the Germans would have had an extra 500,000 troops that were fighting in North Africa, another 250,000 troops that were stationed in Norway and France to ward of potential attacks as well as another 2000 Luftwaffe aircraft that were destroyed in the Battle of Britain, many of which were some of Germany's best pilots. Also by 1941 the RAF were bombing German cities so a lot of German resources were being eaten up there as well.

Importantly without threats like Greece, something that caused Hitler to have to delay Operation Barbarossa by a month the Germans would have been able to begin the invasion of the Soviet Union early May, giving them another 4 to 6 weeks of fighting before the Russian winter hit.

So with an additional 750,000 troops (rough estimate), 2000 more aircraft and another 6 weeks of fighting to take Moscow, the oilfields and Stalingrad would the Germans have succeeded?

Also I am guessing a lot of my details are either wrong or far too simplistic so I am very happy to be corrected.
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