How does it change the course of the war if in 1941, Hitler doesen't invade the USSR in Barbosa, but invades the UK in a daring attempt to capture London and the end the war quickly?
Operation:Sealion?
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We have a glossary of threads about Sea Lion.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=180901
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=180901
Sorry, didn't know that, The lost post in that thread is from before I joined, so I could not have known.
Operation Sealion would have been a cakewalk for the Wehrmacht. Just dump a few million counterfeit pound notes on every city, smuggle some special forces in by U-boat and have them take the Home Army prisoner during the chaos. Kind of like "The Mouse That Roared", except more believable.
I presume the rational policy would ahve been to put a lot more effort into the uBOAT war adn carry on terror bombings.
Certainly not. If you don't think that plan would succeed, consider what will happen when a company of Ewoks parachutes into London.
Seriously, though, the challenges facing Sealion were significant. At the time it was conceived, basically as a casual afterthought to the unexpected fall of France, it had no chance of success.
There are of course circumstances that would have allowed some chance of success for a Nazi invasion of England. However, such an invasion would have required preparation since well before the fall of France, and the latter was definitely not anticipated by anyone concerned - or, if America somehow stays neutral, well after the fall of Russia. And it would still be a long shot.
There are of course circumstances that would have allowed some chance of success for a Nazi invasion of England. However, such an invasion would have required preparation since well before the fall of France, and the latter was definitely not anticipated by anyone concerned - or, if America somehow stays neutral, well after the fall of Russia. And it would still be a long shot.
He couldn't invade the UK. Fundamentally he had no answer to UK sea power and he never got close to destroying UK air power. Perhaps if earlier than 1941 he had concentrated much more of his resources on U Boats he might have had a chance of starving Britain into submission. But who knows...perhaps Britain would have reacted by evacuating millions of its people to the colonies. Maybe even that strategy wouldn't work.