Deep Emotion [ dearka x yzak ]

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Third Reich Victorious

The concept of a victorious Nazi Germany is something which today can only be found in books, movies, and our own imaginations. In 1941, however, as the allies were driven from continental Europe, the possibility of Hitler winning the war was very real.

On July 16, Hitler issued Directive 16, the preparation of a landing operation against Great Britain. Since England, despite her hopeless military situation, still shows no sign of willingness to come to terms, I have decided to prepare, and if necessary to carry out, a landing operation against her. The objective of this is to eliminate England as a base for the prosecution of the war against Germany. The invasion plan, code-named Sea Lion, was ultimately abandoned due to poor weather and the failure of the Luftwaffe to win the Battle of Britain.

In my particular scenario, the eastern United States was taken after Hitler launched an invasion of Britain and then moved to conquer the Soviet Union. Britain would have been the key to his victory. Had Hitler succeeded in making the island nation another outpost for his odious Third Reich, the course of the war would have been very different.

First of all, because Britain was the only nation in Europe not occupied or friendly towards the Nazis, it served as the operations and supply base for all Allied and resistance operations in Europe. Her occupation would have not only have meant the end of the campaign in the northern Europe (i.e. no D-Day), but also the end of effective organized resistance throughout the continent.

More importantly, the British army served vital role in the ultimate failure of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion the Soviet Union. In late 1941, as Hitler was preparing to turn his troops against Russia, the British launched a counter-attack against the Italian army through Greece. Hitler was forced to send troops to back up the Italians which delayed the invasion by six weeks and completely threw off the time tables that had been established. German troops ran into the brutal Russian winter, and were eventually halted and turned back at the battle of Stalingrad.

Occupying Britain would have meant that the counter-attack would have never have taken place, and the invasion of Russia could have launched as originally intended. Hitler would have been able to sweep through the Soviet Union in probably 2.5 or 3 months.

With Britain and Russia firmly subjugated, only one obstacle would stand between Hitler and world domination...America. In reality, there was really no way Hitler could have launched a full-scale invasion of the US. Germany simply lacked the industrial capacity for such a complex, overseas operation. This does not mean, however, that his threat was totally non-existant, and he most certainly could have attacked the States by other means. As German science progressed, new weapons such as long-range bombers, battleships, submarines, and V-2 rockets, would have made war with US a very real possibility. And with the advent of atomic weapons, things may have eventually bogged down into a cold war between Germany and the United States. It's really anyone's guess.

Hitler's victory may be fiction, but it is based on fact. If Britain had ultimately fallen to the Nazis, the world as we know it would be a very different place.