How would WW2 be different if the Nazis scraped operation Barbarossa for Sea Lion?
How would WW2 be different if the Nazis scraped operation Barbarossa for Sea Lion?
Sealion actually had a pretty decent chance of succeeding.
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The Germans still fail, since they can't establish air superiority or naval superiority, and their brilliant plan was to send like two divisions of paratroopers to get slaughtered by the dug-in Brits or send the invasion force in towed river barges to get wrecked by the home fleet
>Britain has air superiority over the Channel
>Britain has a much larger navy than Germany
>The British empire has double the economy of Germany
>US lend lease
>Germans don't have landing craft
It would be disastrous for Germany
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It would have ended in 1939 instead of 1945. With the same result
>german army now stuck on a hostile island with absolutely no hope of resupply
>most of the navy and airforce at the bottom of the channel
the war would end sooner
Seeloewe was planned for late 1940.
Nah, they can't transport more than a division or two at a time. Most of the Germany army wouldn't even be involved.