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Good reply and it makes sense. The Luftwaffe having command of the air would have made life tought for the RN. Who knows how it would have ended up. However, if Germany would have taken the British Colonies in Africa and taken the Middle East, the RN would be cutoff from its main oil reserves. This ...

This topic has been argued to death by military historians about how Germany could make a successful landing on the shores of England. If one looks at the plans drawn up for Operation Sealion, the OKW was very aware about the dangers. They knew the Kriegsmarine could not challenge the Royal Navy in ...

In referring to Operation Barbarrosa, its planning began during the Fall of 1940 but Hitler had already had in mind his ideological war he spoke of in Mein Kampf after the Fall of France. That war was against the Soviet Union. Many German Generals like Heinz Guderian felt that the halt order was not...

Simple reason is that Hitler did not want to invade. If you read Hitler's Mien Kampf he refers to the English as brothers and that England's existence is a necessity to maintain order in the world. Also I have seen a documentary on PBS some years ago that said Hitler wanted the British to be able to...

1. If Hitler died, I think Herman Goering would have been the next Fuehrer. However, I think Himmler would have launched a coup against Goering once his SS had complete police control. 2. As for the Army, I think it would have went to war against France by 1945. The whole Z Plan for the Navy and the...

Only because he was the only Reichsmarshal.

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Did he have a hand in why it went badly?

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What was the state of anti-submarine warfare tactics and weapons for the Kriegsmarine?

Goering proved his ineptness with all his failed promises to Hitler.

Not even a Soviet sub?

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Were German destroyers successful at attacking Allied subs[/b]

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