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Originally Posted by Doppleganger Hi Monty.
I have to disagree with you here. The Russian campaign as success or failure was entirely unrelated to what happened in the Battle of Britain. |
As I have said previously I dont for an instant believe that Germany could have won WW2 as they simply did not have the capacity to take on the USA or more importantly they didnt have an ability to take on its untouched production capability.
However I find it incredibly difficult to believe that having access to the 50+ divisions tied up in the west would not have made a huge difference to either the early days of the Russian campaign or a much strengthed Afrika Korps.
With Britain in the war even with extremely limited offensive capability pretty much meant that those units would have to stay in the west and maintain an almost full strength combat capability.
As far as an invasion of Britain went I dont tend to agree that it was an impossibility as long as they had air superiority over the north sea and channel which that would have made RN activity in those areas incredibly costly when you take into account that it would have given the kriegsmarine (especially the uboat force) a very secure (ie downed crew recovery, and air support for naval action thus making RN operations risky at best) lake of operations. However any German assault on Britain would have to have occured and finished before mid-1941 at the latest.