WI: Hitler Takes Britain

I have a different question...

Lets assume for a minute (dont jump on me! :D) that Hitler's Sea Lion is succesfull and Britain falls to Germany's hands...
Would Hitler maintain direct control of Britain or he would restore Edward VIII and have a puppet Government run the country?

The Germans drew plans to do so, but by the time they though Sealion would be initiated, Edward VIII was beyond their reach in the Bahamas. He wasn't really crucial to their plans, so I don't suppose they'd really care.
 
I have a different question...

Lets assume for a minute (dont jump on me! :D) that Hitler's Sea Lion is succesfull and Britain falls to Germany's hands...
Would Hitler maintain direct control of Britain or he would restore Edward VIII and have a puppet Government run the country?

The plan was to establish contact with Lloyd George (yes, that Lloyd George) and establish a 'government of national unity' that would conclude a peace ASAP. Lloyd George was chosen as the most likely Petain figure because he was particularly vocal in his calls for peace in the immediate aftermath of the French collapse, even all the way through til after Dunkirk.

Whether LG would have accepted remains a mystery. The Old Men of Europe did strange things in their pursuit of peace.

Edward VIII was meant to be kidnapped in Portugal (seriously) but the German order to seize him came too late, and he was on a steamer to the Bahamas by the time it was decoded.
 
@sergeantheretic (re: It Happened Here)

All the same I would give one of my ovaries to own a copy of it.


I just turned up two copies on amazon.co.uk
I wouldn't know what to do with an ovary, personally, so you get that info for free :D
 
@sergeantheretic (re: It Happened Here)

All the same I would give one of my ovaries to own a copy of it.

I just turned up two copies on amazon.co.uk

I wouldn't know what to do with an ovary, personally, so you get that info for free :D

Also try an earlier effort by the film industry to depict Sealion...'Went the day well ' by [Ithink] a guy with the unlikely name of Cavellcanti.
Made during the war it was noted for its brutal [for the time] scenes of typical English villagers repelling an advance party of Nazis with ordinary household implements. Isaw it a few years ago and was impressed by its realistic way of depicting people
I'm not sure where you can get maybe youtube?
I am though certain that ovaries are not a recognised form of currency:D
 
I've got Went The Day Well on DVD. It too depicts a collaborator, one who is killed by a local, I think a youngish girl, at the end. It is indeed very brutal.
 
Mammalian Musings...

The only reasonably coherent book I've ever read on a possible successful German invasion of Britain was by Kenneth Macksey and published in 1980 I believe. Basically, the invasion occurs in mid-July with the Battle of Britain in late June-early July.

There are plenty of holes but it's worth a look.

I prefer to think about a possible negotiated settlement between Britain and Germany and the ramifications but this has been done to death in various scenarios both on this forum and in other books.

Essentially, there are three possible outcomes:

1) Fortress Britain: - the country remains neutral and unoccupied while Germany and the USSR slug it out. Defences are built up so as to make any invasion attempt almost impossible. IF the Germans prevail in the east, they will be too busy there to worry about the UK. IF the Russians prevail, the Red Army sweeps across continental Europe and a new threat stands across the Channel.

2) The Fatherland Option - a successful Germany negotiates a peace with the USA once the latter has defeated Japan. It becomes increasingly difficult for an isolated Britain to remain apart so at some point in the 1950s Britain joins the new Germania.

3) The Nuclear Option - events occur as in OTL and after Pearl Harbour, the US and Germany go to war. Britain abrogates the treaty with Berlin and resumes hostilities in 1942 and comes under suatained air attack. In the end, the first atom bomb is dropped on Hanover with a second on Munich and the Nazi regime collapses. In the confusion that follows, the Continent is partitioned between Washington and Moscow.


There are other possibilities of course.
 
Also slightly off topic .When the Duke of Windsor was exilled to Bermuda he was accomponied by an aide de camp, a New Zealander who only recently died.
He recorded before he died that he was in the event of any attempt by the Duke to leave of his own accord, or if German agents attempted some sort of uplift, then his orders were to shoot the duke first!
Under no circumstances was the duke to leave Bermuda alive until the war ended:eek:
 
The only reasonably coherent book I've ever read on a possible successful German invasion of Britain was by Kenneth Macksey and published in 1980 I believe. Basically, the invasion occurs in mid-July with the Battle of Britain in late June-early July.

My favourite book on the subject, which was actually published during the war, is 'Tunnel From Calais': As you'd expect from that title, the Germans dig a Chunnel... but just before they make the final breakthrough, and the panzers would have poured out onto English soil, the heroes drop explosives onto it from (IIRC) the white cliffs of Dover... :D
 
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