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The likelihood of an invasion of Britain was highest after the Fall of France, and the whole point of the German air campaign during the Battle of Britain was to soften the island’s defenses to make an invasion possible. Germany’s defeat at the Battle of Britain pretty much ended any direct threat of an invasion of the Britain itself. We know now that Germany never held any illusions after that that it could actually occupy Britain, and soon enough it had invaded Russia, and it put efforts in Western Europe into preventing a future invasion of Occupied Europe.niceatheist:
And my copy of the Three-Volume Set of the Complete Correspondence between Churchill and Roosevelt - which contains ALL of their Correspondences including that re: “Uncle Joe” (Stalin) - is “mint”… first issued in 1984 publishes their complete correspondence from October 1933 to April 1945, the month FDR died.My copy of Churchills History of the Second World War, in the appendices, has a literal boat load of telegraphs and other correspondence.
Were America not support Churchill from before its Entrance into WWII - Britain would have been very quickly demolished - and acquiesant to Hitler.
Were America not support the Soviet Union - All of Europe and parts of Asia and African would be speaking the hated-by some, German Language…
There are a whole lot iffs involved in what might have happened if Germany had not invaded Russia or the Americans had not began Lend-Lease or later entered the war. German strategists seemed to shift to isolating Britain, trying to sink as many North Atlantic convoys as they could, and basically isolate Britain; cutting it off from the rest of the Empire (Japan was taking care of that in the East). I suppose it’s possible, maybe even probable that eventually Britain might have sued for peace and recognized Germany’s control of Europe, but I think that would have required a wholesale change in the British government. Even Chamberlain had drawn his red line over the invasion of Poland, and anyone within the British establishment that was at all in favor of some sort of peace deal with the Germans was either discredited or kept their head down. If Britain had been left alone to face German hegemony over Europe, with its Empire in tatters and the Axis free to strip away Imperial holdings, I suppose in the long run it would have gone bankrupt and had to abandon even nominal resistance to German-occupied Europe.