Name: What if Germany Had Invaded Britain?
Uploaded: 2018-07-28T01:50:35.000Z
Duration: 7 min 52 s
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it seemed like a real possibility, as the bombs rained down on Britain,

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that the UK was  going to face the German Army rolling onto their shores, and conquering the island.

Now, Wargaming came to me in this sponsor,

saying how in the new "World of Tanks War Stories: Operation Sea-Lion",

The Nazis in World War II don't just stay on the mainland,

The UK persevered, very much to Hitler's dismay,

and a few years later, it was the British instead, sailing the channel, and taking out the Nazis.

What would have been the plan to invade the UK was called "Operation Sea-Lion".

It's such a popular concept in alternate history,

it surprises me why I didn't cover it sooner.

So, let's imagine what if, in an alternate timeline,

the Nazis had followed through with Operation Sea-Lion.

"What would be the objective of the invasion itself?"

considering we're talking about NAZI GERMANY.

Invasion for the sake of invasion would be a simple enough reason.

Hitler adding to territory for the Reich, like a Risk game.

But in Britain's case, this was NEVER the situation.

Invading Britain was the absolute last thing the Nazis wanted to do.

Hitler wanted the British to simply surrender once France fell, so he could focus the main event:

If the British morale was so low, then maybe they'd actually ask for peace,

But then Winston Churchill defiantly showed this was not the case,

and Germany realized the UK wasn't going to simply let this go.

Operation Sea Lion wasn't an invasion of conquest,

Nobody in the German high command (even Hitler himself), had confidence in the plan.

Britannia. And the "Ruling the Seas" part.

Even though Germany had the Blitzkrieg on their side,

they never came close to the naval capabilities of the British.

That channel absolutely terrified the Germans.

The idea of having to cross it, and land troops on the island,

was just an absolute logistical nightmare.

doubted the Reich even had the ships to pull it off.

Even for the navy powers of Britain and America,

D-Day was a practical miracle that the amphibious landing was even achieved,

and that included 4 years of naval combat experience and added superiority on the seas.

The Germans didn't have the naval experience, or the navy numbers to even put a dent in His Majesty's navy.

And they knew, if they attempted to invade,

their forces would be decimated by the British, before even reaching the shore.

So although nobody was confident in the plan,

Hitler laid out 4 requirements they'd need to meet, before moving on to such an invasion.

and say all the requirements that Hitler had,

are met for them to forward with the invasion.

sometime in September, the Royal Navy is distracted off the coasts of Norway and Italy,

giving them enough time to clear the few British ships or mines from the channel.

Any that enter are simply destroyed by German artillery.

The next phase, goes to the Kriegsmarine (the German Navy).

Now the Kriegsmarine are down on their luck.

They barely had the capabilities to really do much at all.

And because they were so small, if Germany lost a ship,

it hurt them far more than if the British lost theirs.

The navy would need to ship troops across the channel.

This brings on images of the Allies on D-Day, with these landers,

but for the Germans, they only had two prototypes for a similar ship in 1940.

So, if you were a German soldier in the invasion, you'd be placed in a modified riverboat.

If you were lucky, yours would actually control itself,

You'd be part of a 67,000 man invasion force shipping from Northern France to Southern England in the cover of night.

The objective is to secure the beachhead,

set up artillery along the English coast,

and use it to sink any ships entering the channel.

Then, when all that was achieved, the Germans would encircle London,

The farthest north that Germany would go...

Because, once again, the Germans hoped, that the British would just surrender.

Well, what it seems like would have happened,

is the Germans would have just been stuck on an island, isolated from mainland Europe,

where any help or supplies is just sunk by a nation, with a far superior navy and air force.

"That really seems like Nazi Germany is in a bit of a huge mess.

In fact, instead of Operation Sea Lion being the final death of the Allies,

like it often is perceived as in the media,

it seems more like it would have been a bungled mess.

Due to the limitations of the German navy, and the superiority of Britain's."

In an alternate timeline, where Nazi Germany invaded Britain,

I believe the British simply would have moved up the border,

and used their naval and air superiority to destroy the German supply lines,

essentially just stranding 60,000 something Germans on an island with no escape.

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