I'm not even sure how relevant the invasion argument is here, but since it's going anyway, I'll jump in. Believe it or not, I have to throw my lot in with Zorin. I've long been of a mind that Hitler had no intention of defeating Britain in the first place, but only to back them into a corner and get them to see "reason" and get with the program and send a bunch of blond haired blue eyed boys to fight alongside his blond haired blue eyed boys against the communist horde. Sea lion was a half-hearted plan at best, and probably was never meant to actually be executed. The U-boats did a very good job of suppressing England as a base for any attacks against Europe, right up until the outcome of the war had already (arguably mid '43) been decided, so had all of Hitler's grandiose plans come to fruition as planned, England would have never been more than a minor nuisance. Unfortunately for Hitler, he didn't seem to realize that he was messing with two places where they produce people equally as stubborn and stoic as the Germans, and also there was the minor problem that he was batshit crazy and hindered his own plans more than anyone else could have.
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