Could Germany have invaded Britain in 1942/1943 if...

There is a simple solution to all the sea lion problems and I expect someone else has already sugested it, but just in case, here it goes.
The POD is that Pangea never splits up, and everyrthing else is just like OTL:D

Well its the most plausible Sealion idea to date...;)
 
I doubt they would have been as effective in the Channel. Average tidal current in the Channel is 5kn, while in the Med is only 1kn. With that ferry's base top speed of 7kn and it's low freeboard I don't see it doing well at all. A Channel crossing craft would need to be something sturdier.
the width of a single pontoon Siebel Ferry would appear to be larger than the beam of a Higgins Boat, so it's not impossible that it could be done. Of course, whether the Italian designed and built landing craft would do any good in the Channel...
 
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Or, for that matter, to make France fall, which was a requisite in the original post.
Germany and whatever the German government is would need an all-consuming hatred for Britain to drive its post-1918 history towards becoming a naval power. That's a 1918 POD.

While I agree with your point I think that even if Germany truly hated Britain it couldn't afford to make them top priority when it came to rebuilding their military. After all it their lost territory is all in continental Europe and they have two potentially hostile powers in France and Russia/USSR on their borders. They can't afford not to focus on building up the army, and the airforce needed to support it and defend against enemy air attacks.

The navy almost has to be the poor relation given German resources in the 20s and 30s, and of course the Kriegsmarine hardly has a stellar reputation in Germany after WWI and the mutinies.
 
Stalin would have happily supplied the Germans as long as they kept their focus on the UK. The longer those 2 would tire each other out, the better it would have been for the USSR.

I doubt that. It's not as if the USSR did not need what Germany should have paid with. Stalin's rearmament plans, which are not a luxury for the USSR at this time, rely heavily on German tech, know-how, finished goods - which the Germans are not sending along.
On this same tit-for-tat issue, one can look up the story of the Soviet supplies to the Spanish Republic. Did they send those to counter Fascism? - yeah, but add that the USSR pocketed the Spanish gold reserve.

But the clincher is an analysis of the Soviet supply flow from the winter of 1939 to June 1941. The first big trade deal was already operational soon after the fall of Poland. Yet the Soviets sent only a meager trickle of what they had promised, throughout that winter and spring. Now, Germany was surely focused West at this time, yet Stalin did his very best not to help the Germans.
Then, once the Germans were triumphant in the West, the Soviet taps opened up. Stalin was essentially paying "protection" to the racketeer, up to the end of June 1941. The more the German focus moved East, the more Stalin sent - receiving nothing.

The above, IMHO, is evidence that while the Western capitalist states and Nazi Germany were all enemies to Stalin, he thought that some enemies were more dangerous and worse than others, and he had a preference about who should win.
 
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