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This thread is an offspring of this thread.
It is about, in particular, the development of the German Wehrmacht had peace or at least armistice between Germany and Great Britain been achieved before even the onset of the Kanalkampf. This is not about whether or not Great Britain would ever had signed a peace treaty with Hitler or even agree to an armistice, there are plenty of other threads around for that kind of discussion.
The purpose of this discussion is to try and estimate the strength of the Wehrmacht for a Barbarossa scenario had not the Battle of Britain, Operation Marita, Operation Sonnenblume etc. never taken place and all those losses suffered during these military operations are instead added into a Barbarossa OOB.
First is to establish the OTL military strength of the German Heer and Luftwaffe (the Kriegsmarine played at best a marginal role, so there's no real need to discuss it at the moment) at Barbarossa but include all those forces deployed to other theaters. Me and wiking has had a discussion going on about this via PM this is the result of that discussion.
I'll continually update the Heer and Luftwaffe posts on the first page to reflect the evolved discussion as it progress with the ultimate goal of creating a scenario for War in the East (hence the thread title)and potentially writing a timeline based based on wargaming that scenario.
It is about, in particular, the development of the German Wehrmacht had peace or at least armistice between Germany and Great Britain been achieved before even the onset of the Kanalkampf. This is not about whether or not Great Britain would ever had signed a peace treaty with Hitler or even agree to an armistice, there are plenty of other threads around for that kind of discussion.
The purpose of this discussion is to try and estimate the strength of the Wehrmacht for a Barbarossa scenario had not the Battle of Britain, Operation Marita, Operation Sonnenblume etc. never taken place and all those losses suffered during these military operations are instead added into a Barbarossa OOB.
First is to establish the OTL military strength of the German Heer and Luftwaffe (the Kriegsmarine played at best a marginal role, so there's no real need to discuss it at the moment) at Barbarossa but include all those forces deployed to other theaters. Me and wiking has had a discussion going on about this via PM this is the result of that discussion.
I'll continually update the Heer and Luftwaffe posts on the first page to reflect the evolved discussion as it progress with the ultimate goal of creating a scenario for War in the East (hence the thread title)and potentially writing a timeline based based on wargaming that scenario.
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