Date Posted:17:41:06 06/03/07 Sun Author: Paul_G Author Host/IP: c-68-83-87-141.hsd1.de.comcast.net / 68.83.87.141 Subject: Re: Britain standing alone vs Germany who wins WW2 In reply to:
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's message, "Britain standing alone vs Germany who wins WW2" on 06:51:31 01/24/07 Wed
>Britain with no outside support but her own flesh and
>blood, no outside help from the Americans, who wins
>the war? What will be the world today?
You guys are all crazy. Without the US or Soviet Union, Britain was getting its butt kicked in nearly every aspect of the war. They were terrible against the Germans early in the war and even worse against the Japanese. The Battle of Britain would have been a temporary setback, in the same way that early war daylight bombing was a setback for the Allies.
Without American intervention, Germany would have had a huge industrial advantage... it could have used that to gain air superiority over time, and launched an invasion in 1943 or 1944 - the actual European theater in reverse, basically. Or it could have strangled Britain with U-Boats and aircraft. Their options were limitless.
And before people bring up the Royal Navy... a large part of that was WWI vintage, and I think limited actions showed how utterly ineffective that was against airplanes, submarines, and more modern surface ships.
With no outside help for Britain, some form of a EU, with the capital being Berlin, would have extended over a large part of the world.
A better question might be, what would the world look like now, if Britain had sided with the Axis? The Japanese were allies of Britain until the 30's, and I'm sure the Germans would have preferred Britain as a European ally to the comic relief they had in the Italians.
