Would Peace with the UK hurt Operation Barbarossa?

Would a UK-Peace hurt a later Operation Barbarossa?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 26.7%
  • No

    Votes: 10 66.7%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 1 6.7%

  • Total voters
    15
Consider for a moment that the British War Cabinet has a stroke of stupidity and immediately sues for peace after the Fall of France.
With the threat of a two-front war for Germany if Hitler were to backstab the Soviets no longer fooling Stalin, is it fair to surmise that the USSR would be more prepared for a Nazi invasion once it came?
 

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Perhaps, perhaps not. In the TL I did about this Stalin found another way to convince himself that the invasion wouldn't happen or at least would come only after a build up of tensions like prior to Poland, which didn't come. That was perhaps unrealistic for a Germany in peacetime, so perhaps Hitler would have had to have a tension building event with Stalin prior to war as he did with his pre-war conflicts, rather than a surprise attack. Hitler apparently worried that if Britain made peace he wouldn't be able to rouse the German people for war again with the USSR. If the Soviets though are more prepared for war that might actually hurt them worse in the end, because it puts more forces closer to the border in range of a Luftwaffe double the size, while the USSR is no more mobile and capable of handling German maneuver warfare and German is not blockaded and fighting on other fronts. The extra German forces and extra Soviet preparations might end up being a wash, but the more Soviet forces that are destroyed near the border means less the Germans have to deal with deep in when they have less supplies and ability to strike deep and hard.
 
Just having the thousands of extra Aircraft, guns, thousands of tanks, 400,000 men and an Army Group's worth of extra transport not sent to North Africa, sounds like a positive advantage for the Wehrmacht?

"A single Battalion can mean the difference between defeat and victory" The Duke of Wellington.
 
the British War Cabinet has a stroke of stupidity and immediately sues for peace after the Fall of France.
Would it actually be stupid depending on the terms you got and with hindsight?
A peace of Amiens with GB still rearming might put GB in a better position or it might not?
 
I don't think so. As edgeworthy rightly points out, the presence of 400,000 (perhaps more with fewer men on garrison duties on the coasts?) men, thousands more aircraft and tanks ect, that weren't lost in the Battle of Britain or the North African campaign would most likely give the Germans a huge leg up on the Soviets. Stalin meanwhile, has yet to completely fix the command and control or morale issues which have been plaguing the Red Army since the Winter War.
 
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