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Originally Posted by johndallman
That isn't what happened in that history. Ken Hite knows better than that.
Page 57 of Infinite Worlds tells us that Britain was defeated by unrestricted submarine warfare in October 1940. Without the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, which as well as providing much-needed ships had the useful side effect that the US assumed responsibility for protecting those islands, freeing British forces, and had the Germans seriously applied the Luftwaffe to supporting their submarines, that victory is arguably possible.
It would have been a case of negotiating a surrender to avoid utter starvation, rather than a successful invasion. The terms might well have been like those Vichy France got. |
That alone doesn't explain Britain falling by the end of October. If they could make do with eggwhite and a strict ration system for years in our history they could certainly hold out for more than a few months on a stricter system in Reich-5. Also, the timeline from Alternate Earths states "1940- Fall of France and Britain to Germany; Edward VIII made Protector of German-occupied Britain after King George V “commits suicide.” " So there was some kind of occupation force in the country that before 1941 had such a tight grip on the government that they could murder the king and install their own puppet. No matter how hungry Britain was at the time I can't see them negotiating a surrender so one sided that Germany could accomplish this feat. Feels like there is more to the story.