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What if Hitler after the fall of France left Britain alone and conserved the strenght of the German army and air force for the coming struggle in the East? This means: There is no BoB and no bombing of Britain. Until February 1941 when the first German units arrive in North Africa the BotA and the occasional Bomber Command raid into Germany are the only hostile actions between Britain and the Reich. So basically things return to what they have been in the October 1939-March 1940 period.

What are the political consequences? If there is no threat of invasion and no attack against British cities will Churchill be as sucessfull as OTL? Will the Americans be as ready as OTL to supply a Britain which is under no direct threat of attack? And what are the military consequences? The BoB and other operations against Britain cost the LW over 4000 aircraft in the July 1940 - May 1941 period. How much more favourable will the results of Barbarossa be if the Germans can more than double their OTL Barbarossa airforce?
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