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Originally Posted by Viking
So if the British hadn’t won the battle of Britain they would have won the war right there and then?
Viking
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No, approx. 100,000 troops for the Germans killed or captured as indicated by this scenario would not be a huge loss. It would more be a question of the prestige of the army, and the fact it would be a setback in their ability to timetable an attack on the Soviets. (if they even would want to do that after a defeat in England) Remember the Wehrmacht was huge.
The Germans lost 250,000 dead and 500,000 wounded in the first year of the invasion of the Soviet Union, even though that year was pretty much an unbroken string of victories.