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What If the Luftwaffe Won the Battle of Britain?

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The Battle of Britain took a terrifying turn in September 1940 when the German Luftwaffe destroyed the RAF’s command network instead of bombing London. Without Fighter Command to defend the skies, a starving British Empire was forced into an agonizing surrender.

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20 Comments

@TheKulu42 2 months ago

In one of my favorite alternate history novels, Fatherland, author Robert Harris never tells the full story of how Germany won World War II in Europe. I think this scenario you've described would tell that story well!

@KrautGoesWild 1 month ago

My maternal grandpa was Luftwaffe and although he joined after the Battle of Britain because Germany was looking for replacements, I often imagined how he would have done if the Air War had played out differently.
One of the things that would have changed: I would have never been born because my grandpa, after being shot down over England during the Baby Blitz, fell in love with the POW camp's nurse who stitched him back together...

@thelisanalgaib9702 2 months ago

this video would be 500% better with some maps of things you are describing.

@marks1638 2 months ago (edited)

One point not made (at least I didn't hear it) was without British interference the Germans have unlimited access to Middle East oil in Iraq and Iran giving them massive stockpiles of fuel for their invasion of the Soviet Union. Plus, they can force the British to supply them with trucks (lorries) for their invasion making for shortfalls in their limited logistics system (a major issue during the real timeline), troop and equipment deployment, and overwhelm the Soviet logistics system. While this video talks about the Japanese and the British, it fails to mention the US would now concentrate all it efforts in the Far East since they aren't supply the Brits or Europe. They'd only need to keep enough sea and air power to prevent any attempts by the Germans to invade or disrupt trade. Americans will still need resources from other continents and as long as it doesn't interfere with Hitler, he'd probably leave them alone to concentrate on Japan, so he could concentrate on the Soviets. Then America's entire industry and military would concentrate against the Japanese military.

@ashwinrebbapragada7626 2 months ago

Excellent video. Yes, Germany and the Luftwaffe made strategic mistakes in the Battle of Britain. If Germany won that battle, there would be ramifications for that. Germany would have more leverage in the East against Russia. Thank you for making this video. The Battle of Britain was a great victory for the Allied Forces.

@daveclean 2 months ago

Nothing would have happened if the Luftwaffe had won the Battle of Britain, because the Royal Navy was still there, and you still have to cross the English Channel. First, the Germans did not have many
Submarine chases because they had lost a lot of them during the invasion of Norway, which meant that there were very few escort ships for the troop transports over the Channel, and the RN had
around 50 subs to deploy. The Luftwaffe pilots would have had very little training on attacking submerged subs, which would fire off their torpedoes and return to a port to rearm with more torpedoes.
There were also the fast torpedo boats, which would have come in very fast to sink the troop ships ( during the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe attacked T-boats many times in the Channel but did not sink
any). All this I have written is the reason that the German navy gave Hitler to call off Operation Sea Lion. This is not to say that the brave RAF pilots did not do a great job during the Battle Of Britain, and all glory to them! And in 1940, Britain needed a victory, and everyone in the south of England could see the RAF winning that victory.

@JonnyLewis-e8c 2 months ago

300 Luftwaffe planes were lost Yugoslav(Serbian) resistance to the German-Bulgarian invasion to capture the critical Nish-Skopje area above Salonika.

@StephengrantCahow 2 months ago

I like this video but I still want to see what would have happened if the Japanese adopted the semi-automatic rifle in the early 20th century as how would this affect history going forward when Japan became the first country in history to develop their own semi-automatic rifle and soon other countries as well

@therealrvasinger241 2 months ago

19:00 - that was a pretty good landing!

@oldegrunt 2 months ago

Your point of deviation in our history vs a German victory in the Battle of Britain is spot on. It was identified as such by some even in 1941 and many others as time has gone on. The canceling of Opn Sea Lion would open floodgates on the Soviets most assuredly.

Would the US have joined a fractured Commonwealth/Imperial war after an armistice? Likely not, anti war sentiment was strong in the US prior to Pearl Harbor. That particular ripple had little chance of happening. Japan rolling against the weakened colonial empires...iffy, if they could get most of what they wanted diplomatically with German aid. The Japanese navy was pretty negative in it's attitude towards a major war with the various colonial powers tho the Dutch would have likely got smashed to secure their oil resources. China would still have gotten raped too.

This was one of your better alt world stories. It actually works well with the known facts and likely scenarios rippling outward.

@mrjockt 2 days ago

There were sufficient harbour facilities on the Western side of the U.K., out of range of escorted Luftwaffe bombers, to ensure the U.K. didn’t starve, the British government could even build additional harbours to ensure this, what is now the Holy Loch submarine base was originally built as a harbour for shipping coming over from the U.S., the Western approaches could be protected by Coastal Command operating from stations on the Western side of coast of Scotland and from Northern Ireland.

@NaturalOrder999 2 months ago

What if a Second Korean War broke out in 1994

@bryanmetal301 2 months ago

What if Kaiser Frederick III had lived longer?

@waichui2988 2 months ago

Even if the Luftwaffe won the Battle of Britain, they still could not defeat the British. The British air forces had the option of retreating west, beyond the range of Germany bombers. Germany had no long-range bomber. The British could regroup and reorganize and recover on the west coast or even Northern Ireland and return to the contest a few weeks later. If the Luftwaffe won the Battle of Britain, they would have faced the Battle of Britain 2.0 a few weeks later.

@The-eh6fm 2 months ago

Send Paratroopers to take control over airfields, once its done, began supply delivery of reinforcements to expand area control. Once its done, move to the shore and take over the shipyards and docks, once Royal navy has no one to go or resupply, then the landing will be possible.

@georgeprchal3924 2 months ago

The Royal Navy still dwarfed the Kriegsmarine and invasion would be very unlikely to succeed.

@kevincocking8561 2 months ago

well done

@MikeC.TheScout 2 months ago

What if the Bojinka Plot happened?

@colmtansey8359 2 months ago

There is an interview with a former RAF commander. From the 1970s. .where he said that if the germans had invaded England in the week s after Dunkirk. It would have been successful...