As odd as this seems, I went back through over 3 years of "What-if's" and couldn't find this one. It may be there but I didn't see it.
Anyway:
Britain surrenders, negotiates a peace, whatever, following the Fall of France. The scenario for this happening isn't important here but, Britain ends up out of the war.
Hitler turns his attention on Russia. By sometime in 1941 he invades that nation. Again, the exact date isn't critical. We know pretty much what such an invasion would look like in terms of success and such.
At this point, could Germany have defeated the Soviets (includes a negotiated peace) having no second front to worry about? Could the Soviets have successfully checked the German invasion without a British front in the war?
My suspicion is that this scenario would end in the Soviets having to make a peace with Germany and conceeding most of European Russia along with Ukrane, Belorussia to them as well. I think that the best the Soviets could have drawn was a draw.
Anyway:
Britain surrenders, negotiates a peace, whatever, following the Fall of France. The scenario for this happening isn't important here but, Britain ends up out of the war.
Hitler turns his attention on Russia. By sometime in 1941 he invades that nation. Again, the exact date isn't critical. We know pretty much what such an invasion would look like in terms of success and such.
At this point, could Germany have defeated the Soviets (includes a negotiated peace) having no second front to worry about? Could the Soviets have successfully checked the German invasion without a British front in the war?
My suspicion is that this scenario would end in the Soviets having to make a peace with Germany and conceeding most of European Russia along with Ukrane, Belorussia to them as well. I think that the best the Soviets could have drawn was a draw.