Had Hitler Invaded Britain.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2550879/Top-secret-Nazi-A-Z-Britain-reveals-Hitlers-stormtroopers-picked-send-children-school-invading-Britain.html

[jomifl]

The only things standing in the way of a successful nazi invasion of UK were lack of air supremacy, an inadequate navy and lack of landing craft capable of crossing the channel in anything other than a flat calm. I addition to this Britain was planning to either incinerate the german troops on the beaches of gas them with mustard gas. By the time there was another opportunity Hitler was exhausting his resources in Russia and the allied air forces were growing faster than Hitler's.

[mushroom25]

.......plus, had the germans been able to establish a beach-head, it would have been almost impossible (based on the amount of supplies needed, per division, by the "barbarossa" invasion force) to have kept the invasion force supplied, even if they'd managed to get unmolested use of Dover and Folkestone harbours.

[BlueToffee]

He'd have had Captain Mainwaring to deal with!

[jno]

Nazis at Eton, they'd have become prime minister in no time.

[jomifl]

@jno :o) well, they were already in Buck house.

[sandyRoe]

And was it Lord Halifax who'd have welcomed them into the Palace of Westminster?

[anotheoldgit]

jomifl

/// well, they were already in Buck house. ///

They may have been of German decent but they were not Nazis, their home was also bombed along with their subject's homes.

In those far off days we were indeed 'all in this together'.

[anotheoldgit]

/// The only things standing in the way of a successful nazi invasion of UK were lack of air supremacy, an inadequate navy and lack of landing craft capable of crossing the channel in anything other than a flat calm. ///

Not many problems there then.

[sandyRoe]

The Duke of Windsor would have been happy to step into the role of Nazi puppet.

[jim360]

On balance I think the idea of Germans living in stately homes and using our public schools is probably one of the less serious consequences of a Nazi Invasion...

[emmie]

lack of air supremacy, they did a fair old job on London in the Blitz, had they continued on in that vein who knows what might have happened.
As to naval power, they had plenty of that, however it didn't happen, and the Russians played a large part in making sure they got what they deserved, at a massive cost i must add.

[DTCwordfan]

Speculation, MiLord.

They would have retreated in six months after tasting our diet, tea and warm beer back then, never mind our outstanding humility and deep love of foreigners, as well as our ABer previous generations who, if like the folk on here, would have had them soon pulling their hair out in frustration.

[anotheoldgit]

One thing that I have never been able to understand is the fact that although London took a pounding during the blitz, most of it's historical buildings etc were hardly touched?

Yes St Paul's and Buckingham Palace sustained damage, but what about Nelson' Column and Big Ben, the Tower and Tower Bridge, surely they must have stuck out like a sore thumb?

[sandyRoe]

Perhaps they'd have set up a form of parliament in some neutral place, like Brussels.

[emmie]

it would have been the royal family either eliminated or exiled, the politicians would have been interned, then most likely shipped out to some place unsavoury, the intelligentsia would have been eliminated, don't want any opposition, homosexuals, mentally ill, frail, feeble, Jews, all gone, you really don't want to consider what else they would have done, but people like Goebbels, Himmler, and Mengele were not noted for their kindly ways, monsters and sadists.

[DTCwordfan]

The Germans could have produced a comedy of Britain under occupation such as Hello, Hello,Old Boy - starring Blue Toffee as Edward (equiv of René), AOG as the policeman - and which gals are going to take the female roles?

[sandyRoe]

http://ww2today.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/St-Pauls-in-London-Blitz.jpg

[emmie]

Although only one bomb fell on the Tower of London in the First World War (it landed harmlessly in the moat), the Second World War left a greater mark. On 23 September 1940, during the Blitz, high-explosive bombs damaged the castle, destroying several buildings and narrowly missing the White Tower. After the war, the damage was repaired and the Tower of London was reopened to the public.[134]

[DTCwordfan]

You try hitting a needle like Nelson's Column with 1940s bomb guidance - and then over 1/3rd of bombs didn't explode because of crap fuses and the effect of London mud.....