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What do you think the world would be like if the Nazis had of invaded England in 1940, won the the war & conquered the world.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.There has been at least one television programme made to point out what might have happened. If Great Britain had been conquered there would have been a governor appointed by the Nazis and everyone would be controlled in a similar fashion to other occupied countries. But let me tell you they would have had a very rough time by underground resistance groups. This country would never have knuckled down! As to the world, in no way could this have been possible.
In the 1970's the surviving Staff Officers from the British and German Armies met at Sandhurst and had a war game excercise where they deployed the forces that they had at the time, eveything was as it was in 1940 (had Hitler given the order for Operation Sea Lion to go ahead). It was found that after the Royal Navy (then the 2nd largest navy in the world) + the RAF had decimated the German navy and landing craft, there would have been a period of intense combat, with the Germans taking massive casualties and very little or no logistical support. After aprox 3 weeks the Germans would have been exhausted and forced to retreat or surrender. Even if they had won, the Germans would need to occupy Great Britain, fight both the USSR and the USA so it seems very unlikely that they would have conquered the world
If the Nazis had stopped at their half of Poland, and moved their efforts west, the Russians wouldn't have entered the war. The UK would've been conquered, and after a period the eastern front would have opened up. There would likely have been a union between the Russians and Germans - similar to the agreement reached over Poland, and the war effort could then have been focussed on backing Japan against the US.
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If the Nazis had invaded England? There've been multiple reconstructions that demonstrate that although it would've been costly, it would've been highly unlikely that they would've been successful (plus you have to remember we had plenty of colonies to flee to and continue the war from, which I believe Churchill had planned in such an eventuality)
If the Nazis had conquered the world? The Germans were never going to win with Hitler at their helm. With someone more competent - who can say? But they weren't going to win under Hitler (and somebody more competent would've likely ended the war - as advocated staunchly to Hitler by von Rundstedt and by Rommel).
If the Nazis had conquered the world? The Germans were never going to win with Hitler at their helm. With someone more competent - who can say? But they weren't going to win under Hitler (and somebody more competent would've likely ended the war - as advocated staunchly to Hitler by von Rundstedt and by Rommel).