The Battle of Britain Was The First Defeat For The German Luftwaffe.

[DD_crash]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

Considering its short term and long term effects, the Battle of Britain might as well never have happened.

I`ll bite
Short term : Seelowe postponed (indefinitely )
Long term : diverting resource from the whole point of the war and allowing the Allies to re-take France and then invade Germany.
Apart from that I agree no effect at all

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by DD_crash

I`ll bite
Short term : Seelowe postponed (indefinitely )
Long term : diverting resource from the whole point of the war and allowing the Allies to re-take France and then invade Germany.
Apart from that I agree no effect at all

yes, I mean IF no Battle of Britain was ever fought, how would it have affected the rest of the war?

The numerical odds of the Luftwaffe against the Allies in the ETO would have been no match anyway.

[blackmme]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

yes, I mean IF no Battle of Britain was ever fought, how would it have affected the rest of the war?

So we now have to prove a negative!
It should be easier to summise what would have happened if the Luftwaffe had succeeded in achieving it's objectives and the RAF had failed to achieve its.

The Germans would have won.

The British government would have fallen. Churchill would have taken the rap. Halifax would have become PM and a peace settlement would have been agreed (at very unfavourable terms to the British).

Regards Mike

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by blackmme

So we now have to prove a negative!
It should be easier to summise what would have happened if the Luftwaffe had succeeded in achieving it's objectives and the RAF had failed to achieve its.

The Germans would have won.

The British government would have fallen. Churchill would have taken the rap. Halifax would have become PM and a peace settlement would have been agreed (at very unfavourable terms to the British).

Regards Mike

no no, I said if there was no battle of britain at all and things remained as they were.. would it have made any difference?

And yes, things might have gone monumentally wrong if Germany won against Great Britain, thank god it never happened!