So since this has Nazis in it, I have a feeling the UA-cam algorithm will just not promote and or kill the video views. To balance it out, 'like' this video so it has a chance to survive, and doesn't get thrown under the bus for involving Nazis. Thanks y'all
Thank you, been a subscriber for 2 years and I love your content, you shouldn't be buried for using nazi and hitler due to people who don't want to be reminded (and/or compared to) the nazis
John Smith Because England didn’t have an established navy at that point, so nothing to stop them. Also the Romans, Viking and Norman’s did have problems with storms and strong currents sinking ships and blowing them off course
I find this amusing. British thinking they are the best. Americans thinking the same. Britain has the most naval experience due to its geographical location. But after giving up their colonies (by fource or willingly)..(or by some epic guy almost starving himself) America is by far the stronger country and as such has a better navy. Also wars like Vietnam are 100% opinionated. On a technical level america was winning. However Vietnam was a far less developed country in comparison and america was putting itself in an unnecessary position where it was at a disadvantage and losing more than it should have. Matched with the countless civilians dead by Americans and Vietnamese it was better to pull out of there. The only thing im gonna say which is opinionated is SAS is the best secret service :D
@@liamwilson5670 bruh im sorry managed to reply to the wrong comment meant to send it to the coment with 196 replies fml. Also who did do that cus i honestly have no idea
In the 1960's, surviving Generals, both British and German, got together and wargamed Operation Sealion. They did it several times, altering the scenario on each occasion to reflect various general situations that might reasonably have existed. Every time they ran the wargame Sealion failed. German forces never managed to penetrate more than about twenty miles inland (well short of encircling London) and they were invariably driven back into the sea within a few days. The scenario presented here, where German forces manage to push north of London, is actually quite an optimistic one, from a German point of view.
Over time even if Germany won the entire War , they would have gave back Britain, France, USA, Canada and Russia. Just like the Russians gave back East Germany,Poland, Ukraine and Czechoslovakia in 1989. Germany a country of only 80 million could not occupy Europe, America and Russia forever. Let's get real. Even Britain could not police and maintain Southern Ireland do to resistance fighting from the IRA.
@@Crashed131963 Maybe, but how long would it take? Till they ran out of people to gas? Till they'd indoctrinated the next two or three generations of children? Till they'd bled these countries dry and used up the supply of slave labour? You may be right, but I would suggest that any time at all living under such a regime would be intolerable for any decent person.
@@sirderam1 Stalin's communist Russia was just a clone of Hitler's Nazi Germany and Eastern Europe are adapting OK now that Russia left. Once Hitler died his replacement could only be better like Stalin's replacement was.
...generals generally lose because they make predictable, flawed assumptions and predictable, flawed decisions based on predictable, flawed assumptions. Throughout the history of armed conflict you have victories, losses and draws. So roughly 2/3rds of generals are losers. The winning generals stay on and the losers are replaced. Attacking the UK would at the very least have taken much of the RAF and British Navy out of the question. It simply begged for a command raid. Would have been brilliant even if they were pushed back into the sea.
Too bad the Channel Islands couldn't say the same thing. Which leads to another question for the AlternateHistoryHub; What if the people of the Channel Islands were able to actively resist Nazi occupation?
Britain entered WW2 with 1918-level equipment and many shortages, so it couldn't fight Germany. The only thing Britian had was the Channel, which protected them because Germany isn't located at the sea and didn't have a good Navy. There was nothing Britain could do to defeat Germany. Had Hitler defeated the USSR, Britain would have to accept Germany as the new lord of Europe.
@@OutragedPufferfish 1918 level equipment? You mean the SMLE Mk.4? It's an improvement of SMLE Mk.3 which was the WW1 gun, and if you call the SMLE Mk.4 1918 level equipment then what is a kar98k?
PluriiGaming no at all, this era of abstract. I'm sorry. ABSURD INTERNET HUMOR. Isn't funny at all. Young people only do this because it's trendy and they think they're mentally sharp or quick-witted by acting this way when really it makes them look annoying therefore stupid.
@Aberdolf Lincler Those "farmers" in North America also included France's military might, as well as munitions and financial provisions, against Britain based thousands of miles away across the Atlantic in an era with still mainly wind-powered ships and word of mouth communication, where the Americans had the home advantage, support of the population (mostly) and thousands of civilian militia available at any time to back up their own military
@Aberdolf Lincler I'm assuming your American judging by your ignorance? We were fighting France with a little bit of help from rowdy Americans. However in Vietnam, you were just fighting hiding rice farmers in tress yet still had a K/D worse than the Winter War.
Aberdolf Lincler No oral hygiene yet it’s been proven that the British have better dental health and hygiene than Americans and are one of the top in the world for healthy teeth.
I know this is 1 year but how does Britain still maintain air superiority even if the Germans still continued bombing bases and ports making both the British air and naval in a small bad situation to begin with?
@@ftblaze6175 in the Battle of Britain the main reason Britain could keep going was when a plane was shot down the pilot was rescued and sent back to base to get a new one. Whereas trained a German pilots became prisoners of war. The Germans did lose many aircraft, but so did Britain, but Britain didn’t lose the pilots.
@@ftblaze6175 the German bombers could not reach scapa flow where the main units of the Royal Navy were. Heck there was a plan to sail all 15 of Britain’s battleships into melee range of an invasion force
@@erikapruda6202 The Germans were about to conquer France and take their military assets, so British operatives and French resistance destroyed as much as they could
@@danielplayfair3596 well the IRA would have also attacked plus with sealoin going on they would have less troops in Northern Ireland and the Irish army attacking quick enough could have succeed
I was thinking that they could have used German technology to build the channel tunnel some 50 years quicker than was eventually achieved. Of course the British unions would have been upset by this and mounted a counter attack demanding the 20 hour week, redundancy pay for any worker not employed and free champagne for the union bosses. Along with medical care, health care and a big increase in the wages paid for non work.
@AileDiablo ah yes, the benefit of hindsight. The British had radars that Germany didn’t know about and they also had air and sea superiority, a night invasion is just gonna confuse the attackers even more than the defenders. they also had nowhere near the resources and firepower to pull that off-supplying an entire invasion with submarines? Seriously?
@AileDiablo you do realize how far fetched this is right? You are suggesting sending literal terrorists into the uk which has reasons to not work, first of all being that Germany has no way to get them into the uk undetected and then arm them. There’s also the fact that they barely had any resources for the first invasion, they can’t just rinse and repeat because they’d ru out of oil and their soldiers would become demoralized. Again, most of the ships would never reach land if they attempted to cross, and the “small force” you are suggesting would probably last no longer than a week each while taking up an insane amount of resources they don’t have and giving the British a ridiculously good propaganda tool, and again shift morale and probably make the us more eager to join
@@geegeeuk7 The British had a whole system rigged up to pump millions of gallons of gasoline and fuel oil onto the beaches and set it on fire when the Germans tried to land. I'd be surprised if the Germans made it off the beaches.
@@geegeeuk7 And those beaches tend to be between some quite nasty cliffs and rocks, and the water between them and France moves at between 2 and 7 miles per hour sideways along the Channel - note the wide end to the west and the narrow bit to the east makes tidal currents *interesting*. Now, try hitting that beach in the dark, in a 10 mph tug pulling several barges ...
I have 2 ideas for a good Alternate History video *-What if the Holy Roman Empire lost against the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna?* *-What if France and Austria won the Seven Years War instead of Britain and Prussia?*
@Edward Longshanks King of England Duke of Aquitaine Well I think it's not guaranteed that the Ottomans would definitively lose all the battles in the war, because the Ottomans outnumbered the Christians by a laughable margin, and if the Polish didn't reinforce, then the Ottomans would've won the siege and in turn, win the war. And yes, France was overstretched, but mainly they lost to the British because they couldn't choose a continent to focus their manpower and resources on. The British knew that it had no hope fighting in Continental Europe, therefore they focused all their efforts in the New World, India, and Africa. If the French used this to the advantage and say, invaded the British Isles, or if they spent the war aiding the Austrians, then the tides would turn in the favor of the Catholics.
@New Philosopher Pretty good idea because if the Fourth Crusade never happened then the Byzantines would be in a much stronger place and might've stayed afloat much longer than they did. The Sacking of Constantinople was one of the stupidest events in Medieval Europe and it marked the Death of the Roman Empire and their legacy for the rest of history, and it would be interesting if it and the Fourth Crusade never even happened, but then again he did already make a video talking about if all the Crusades never happened.
@Emperor Leroy I don't really see how that would be possible considering their Empire crumbled after the Rise of Islam and the Seljuk and Ottoman Turks pushed them out from Anatolia, and after the sacking of Constantinople, the Byzantines were a husk of their former glory, not to mention the Plague.
Also, they saw the English as Angolo Aryans. so their ideology acctually accepted a peace with Engeland and after that they wanted to become friends with the English.
How to invade Britain: Easy mode: 1. revert back so 1.5.x. 2. Spam battleships. 3. Win. Hard mode: 1. Spam literally every single ship. 2. Run out of oil. 3. Paradrop stuff. 4. Win.
No need. Here a guide: 1) stack your navy together, and prepare a naval invasion. Even of 10 divisions. 2) put your entire airforce on the english channel and start blowing ships to pieces. 3) when the invasion is ready, which is only 70 days, just launch it with all if your navy supporting it, most of the time the beaches won't even be defended. 4) bring the rest of your army, although really, 24 divisions are enough. 5) literally make a front line, draw a plan to just go to scotland and activate it 6) easy win (All in 5 speed, with sometimes stopping the time for like 5 secs)
@Ben next war, they'll be using Nord VPN and the British will think that the French are invading, so they invade France, but as the army is distracted, Germany invades the U.K. that's how Germany could've won. They just needed NordVPN.
@Julian Harden Annexing Mexico as whole would provide a lot of consequences for the Americans. It would also affect its relations with other Latin American nation.
There's still one more factor to keep in mind : the British Empire had immense manpower reserves across the four Continents to whom it could turn to in case of desperate need. Therefore, any attempt of invading Britain was already doomed from the start.
@Techstorm 123 that is literally the reserves hes talking about, also by the time japan invaded the british raj, every optimistic knew barbarossa wasnt going to get every good
HEY HEY HEY!!! Don't forget the colonies , if we knew that Britain was going to be invaded , the nazis would have to face the full fury of the Kangaroo's , the Kiwis , the Bar Fight Champions , the War Elephants , the Anglo-Zulu Warriors and , last of all , the White House Burners
I'm so glad that you actually did research on this topic. So annoying to have people go "DUR! ENGLAND WILL FALL" It's so nice to see an intelligent video.
Real Life: Germany had no hope of pulling off Operation Sea Lion, hence it wasn't even considered outside of the most desperate situations. HOI4: Spanish anarchists sail from the tip of Iberia to Cardiff in bathtubs and force Britain to capitulate in one month.
Makes you wonder,according the wargaming comment in this comment section,what exactly is HOI IV doing and/or what are the players doing that causes the invasion to work? One thing includes paratroopers,since most players don't send giant numbers of them to invade a Greek island.
@@NareshSinghOctagon hoi4 doesn't/can't simulate all the problems that come with such an invasion. Gamers can also use 'gamey' tactics, exploiting the way the game works which would never work in real life. Also they often prepare with the goal of conquering the UK in mind, which Hitler never did.
Realistically, with the Royal navy being so huge, it wouldeve been almost imposable for the Germans to sustain any type of beach head once they were on English soil.
realistically, even in any scenario where the germans make it to british soil and keep going, they lose reguardless of any naval success up to that point. germans cross the channel? loss. germans surround london? still loss. germans maintain supply lines? not for long. britain is an island, and that tells you all you need to know about why operation sealion fails in every possible case.
The RN was comparatively big at WW2 start but it was a quarter of it's size at the start of WW2 and it had world-wide commitments it had to maintain. On the run up to WW1, we had what they called "a two power navy" meaning we could take on the worlds next two biggest navies simultaneously which could have been the US & Germany. At some point this got prohibitively expensive
Goku Australian Empire that spans entire world. The Great Emu War decided course of history. Victor took over entire world and in real like Emus have already done that, If Australians won we would lose our independence to them as they bear fruits of hard won victory with mllions of Australians dead.
Little known fact it was the death of an ostrich that started WW1. How do I know? Because Baldrick says so in 'Blackadder goes forth' (a brilliant BBC comedy from the late 80s) so it must be true 😉 lol
I can just imagine the meeting Random nazi: hey Hitler, about operation sea lion..... it was a total failure, all the men are dead or have surrendered and we basically have no more fuel due to the fact that most of it was sunk along side the boats, that also had other supplies which we're now limited on, speaking of which the navy now has basically no ships at all. Hitler: *flips table* FUUUUUCK!
Had Nazi Germany lost 1 MILLION men in Operation Sea Lion plus many tanks, planes and ships... ...the Soviets bulldoze the Axis WW2 ends early and the Cold War starts early I wish I lived in that timeline. Less people die in WW2
Germany never had the boats to invade Britain. It took two years for the U.S. to build enough to invade Europe, the Germans never even started a program to build them.
@@crocodileguy4319 No Royal Navy, no D Day, it was a joint effort and therefore the original point about it taking America two years is a false one, it took Britain and America 2 years.
@@tomben6180 don't underestimate America and their ability to manufacture war goods. The fleet to fight Japan in the Pacific and the cash grab the US had selling arms & resources to Britain, in both world wars.
The Royal Navy was far, far, too strong for the Germans to invade, even if the German Air Force had managed to defeat the RAF. Even if the Germans had got some men ashore, the RN would have cut off the German supplies. Operation Sealion was a total non starter.
The problem the Germans had is that Hitler got pissy after the Churchill "we'll fight them on the beaches" speech and changed targets. Instead of bombarding mainly RAF targets and really dominating the skies, he forced them to start hitting civilian targets and cities. Keep bombarding the RAF and you eventually have control of Britain's airspace. After that, the invasion gets A LOT easier. Probably not the glorious victory that Hitler would be looking for, but without the RAF and the Navy meeting it's match against the Luftwaffe, Britain would be forced to look at peace talks
+CMD 3 that's a total myth that was started by the Luftwafffe itself. The British never permanently lost a single airstip, factory or RADAR station to the German bombing because the ordanance wasn't large enough, resistance was too strong and their bombing missed absolutely everything that wasn't literally the size of a city. The fact that the Germans change targets did give the RAF some breathing room but it didn't save them and the attrition rates of the Luftwaffe still would have been far too high to maintain the air war, still resulting in an emphatic RAF victory. The myth started because at the start of the Battle of Britain the Germans believed the British only had over 200 aircraft when in fact the real numbers were 300% larger and the British overestimated the Luftwaffe numbers, resulting in over compensation of aircraft proudction and the British begain outproducing the Germans with a far more acceptable loss ratio. Bear in mind that Britain lost 60,000 civilians in the entire war through German targetting of civilian areas, whereas the British killed around 400,000 German civilians through targetting of mostly industrial areas with a bomber loss ratio that never exceeded 10%. If Germany didn't outright surrender from bombing that was literally 10x more intensive, why would the British ever surrender to an air campaign doomed to fail?
LedAvalon they wouldn't surrender from the air campaign. And with the Luftwaffe bombarding better targets, they wouldn't need it to. All you need is to slow the RAF to the point where your resources can occupy the Royal Navy. Don't get me wrong, you're right to think that the outcome is still probably a German loss in Britain if they don't improve. But Hitler changing targets gave the RAF the breathing room necessary to fight back. Ironically, Hitler made the same mistake in Russia during the Battle of Kursk. Had he allowed the Wermacht to press on instead of diverting forces to an already lost Italy, the war in the East probably leads to a stalemate or even a German victory
You're still perpetuating the myth my friend, the RAF was not meaningfullly slowed down by the tagettting of RAF targets, there were too many airstrips, too many fighters, too many RADAR stations and nowhere near enough air power to suprress them. Once again I'm sorry but there's another fallacy. The Germans had no dedicated naval bombers and their bombers were too inaccurate and their dive bombers were too weak to even stand a good chance at disabling a destroyer. I read about a battleship that was targetted and attacked for days by dive bombers but they simply couldn't do any meaningful damage about it, I'lll send the link if I can find it. Even if the Luftwaffe could seriously damage the Royal Navy, the British had more ships than the Germans had planes, the sheer military force of the navy would be more than enough to resist an invasion and sustain enemy fire.
I think Germany putting u boats in production rather then Bismarck’s would be much more effective, especially if Germans had finished there own nuclear bomb then Britain would have most definitely surrendered, but that’s just my opinion
Hans not sure I really didn’t knew that but I heard that the Germans were racing the Americans to make the first atom bomb, either way fleets of u boats could easily sink British ships and defend supply lines, not sure how it would play out but I’m optimistic
@@lorddeath6300 The U-Boat was never in a position to give the Kriegsmarine total control over the Channel, and the German nuclear bomb project was so far behind it wasn't even a race.
Hitler also delayed development of the worlds first cruise missile because he had a dream it would set the sky on fire. After the war Allied generals said that had the V bombs been hitting England during the preparation for D-day, as opposed to several months after it, that would have severely disrupted their preparations.
Considering Russia lost a war to a handful of drunken Finnish farmers just a couple of years prior, and that they were defeated by Germany the last world war, the invasion of Russia wasn't a stupid idea.
Well, Hitler actually thought it was a *bad* idea to invade Russia. It was the Winter War that showed the Soviets were a paper tiger and that, should Germany invade, she had to do so at once, before Russia got strong.
@@tomben6180 I mean, all Irish are technically British by means of the fact Ireland is a part of the British Isles. It ain't called Great Britain because it is a great place. But that is only through a geographic lense on it. Politically and ethnically the Irish are distinct from the rest, aye.
Here’s something no one ever mentions. Germans would have had no escorts for their landing ships. They lost a shit ton of destroyers in a ambush by british battleships in the battle of narvik. So they couldn’t have even protected their troops crossing the channel
He should have covered a scenario where Germany didn't do Operation Wesurubung, and thus had a more functional navy. Granted, that wouldn't change much (their navy would still be jack shit compared to the Royal Navy,) so...
You have missed a scenerio and probably the most interesting aspect on an invasion of England..... Churchill feared that Germany would invade. Churchill made plans to wage a Guerilla war. Plans were made to destroy roads, bridges and railways. Civilians were trained in firearms and making IEDs. Even school children were to be trained in using weapons. Schools had weapons and munitions hidden in them. Churchill even ordered soldiers to bury weapons chaches in their gardens in England. When the war turned and we gained the upper hand alot of this soldiers went off to mainland europe and died. Some of these caches of munitions are found to this day when people build house extensions, etc. The plan was to wead down the Nazis from within.
Operation Sea Lion was wargamed at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1974. The umpires were WW2 Generals and Admirals from both sides. They assumed 89,000 troops rather than 67,000. The Germans only advanced about 10 miles inland before becoming bogged down. On D+2 the Royal Navy arrived with 17 cruisers and 57 destroyers, sinking about 65% of the German fleet for the loss of only 2 destroyers. The invasion force was cut off with between 2 and 7 days worth of supplies. German forces in Britain surrendered on D+6. 26,000 were killed in action, 33,000 captured, 15,000 drowned in the English Channel and only 15,000 escaped back to France.
He already did. And it wasn't just Britain in the scenario, but all European powers, and what happened is essentially what happened with Portugal. Insurgencies slowly got deadlier and deadlier the more technology advanced until eventually the Empires just gave up.
robert musialek Interesting, I guess the war would be maybe a year longer, and much larger part of Europe would be overrun by the Red Army. But I guess the western allies would have made another attack, or if it took too long would have eveb used nuclear weapons in Europe. Also the cold war afterwards would have been much hotter with all of Germany on the Soviet side and maybe even more.
So you're telling me it would've ended up exactly like the invasion into the Soviet Union, getting close to the capital but ultimately surrounded and forced to surrender an entire army.
Honestly they couldn't even get past the airforce, they never stood a chance against the navy EDIT: Damn, you actually directly mentioned that. You never cease to impress
Lol, it almost did happen and your information are incorrect. Nazis in fact almost crush British Air Defense, just Hitlers stop War of England just before it did happen unaware how close he was to win it. Furthermore Britain has serious problem with fending of two heavily armed cruisers where they lost in combat they flag battleship "Hood" and almost lost they brand new battleship "Prince of Wales". At that time British Navy was pale shade of they past though they still were major regional player even if they navy was seriously outdated and rusted. In proper circumstances Germans definitely could defeat it.
TheRezro you have horrible grammar and though the luftwaffe wasnt annihilate. Britain completely had that. Also it wasn't just Britain all of the allies were involved in the defence
@Spectrum16 I'm guess what kiddo? A foreigner. And using grammar argument is instant rhetorical suicide by the way. Do you seriously think that Britain put even a dent on Luftwaffe? Lol, what a joke. Nazis have superior air-fleet then Britain, just that Hitler decided to move his forces on Western front what end Battle of England. You completely confused facts here. Britain itself admit that they almost lost.. not the opposite. And you say that "all of the allies were involved in the defense"? Yeh right. USA was involved on Pacific Front. They couldn't and didn't send anything before majority of war with Japan ended. Before any P-51 and B-17 arrived only inferior Spitfire and Lancaster fight there. When Yanks arrive it was way after War of England. France at that point was under German hill, Span was with Germans, only forces what fight there were refugees like famous Polish air division (fighting on British plains). And Russia has own war and didn't involve itself "dirty capitalist". That where that involvement end (in air defense because supply is other story).
Meh, a very lazy and not well thought through episode of alternate history. Of course air superiority was a neccessary condition for something like Operation Sealion. Once gaining air superiority failed, all invasion plans were cancelled and more specific plans for invading the Soviet Union were developed. So an alternate line in history where Germany invades the UK mainland would include German air superiority. With it, naval supremacy of the UK becomes relative because UK ships would not have been able to simply enter the English Channel and hunt German transport and supply ships but suffer huge losses from air and torpedo attacks. Also, with air superiority over the English Channel, the German Navy would have been able to concentrate its forces within the English Channel and support the operation. This neccessary condition changes the whole scenario.
Spectrum16 US wouldn't be involved until 1941 and even then, Hitler reluctantly declared war because of the alliance with Japan. Suez, Malta, Gibraltar, and Singapore were all threatened at one point or taken and India was over British rule and wanting independence. ANZAC, what was left of mainland resistance and Canada aided UK. Roosevelt was nervous for the Atlantic Charter and Lend Lease to be even that remotely involved because of the American public opinion. By all accounts, UK had little choice but to be self reliant and hold on.
Love the Uno reference but I don't think young people grow up now playing cards like we, and our parents and grandparents did, pre-internet and all. God I hope someone else gets it lol.
One of my early games (first on Europe) as Vichy France, invading the UK terrified me and I was considering just giving up. I said fuck it, place all my ships in the channel, declared, and walked onto England. They fell in less than two months.
Oh the days when I thought the game was complicated... I the drove 5 Soviet light tank divisions into Zaragoza... it wasn’t long until Republican Spain won the civil war... how do people think it’s hard to do that again?
Actually I managed to defeat England in 1941 in hoi4 Because they left Dover completely unguarded. I quickly send my navy to shortly protecc the channel (because staying there is a deathwish) I sent one panzer division to invade and after that told all my other 100+ divisions to get the hell to England. Almost everything went right although taking the southeast (basically greater London) took me some time until I basically told my army to rush L. Sry of it's a TL:DR I just love Hoi4
My Grandma was a child in Britain during WW2 and she always tells me how after how quickly most of Europe fell to the Nazi’s they were genuinely afraid about the Nazi’s being able to create some horrible new weapon to cross the channel and invade the British Isle. Of course we can look back and realize how unlikely this was but for a child who constantly heard about the Nazi’s being this indestructible fighting force and genuinely feared about the possibility of their home being next this was a somewhat terrifying possibility.
read this comment Their still pretty powerful. They have some of the most highly trained armed forces in the world ( SAS), are currently adding two super carrier's to their navy, and having a nuclear arsenal, with one of its submarines on patrol at all times.
Had France gone to war with Germany over the Rhineland the Nazis would have been overthrown by their own people for incompetence Had Czechoslovakia said no the Osteer Conspiracy kills and overthrows the Nazis Had France invaded Germany the same time it was invading Poland WW2 would have been over by 1941
It wasn't impossible, it was very likely had they not invade the Soviets and ally with the Japanese Empire. A Germany that focuses all its forces on allies would've made any landing on mainland Europe impossible. By Allies I'm excluding the US, because US would extend the war and force Nazis to surrender same for same reasons as in WW1.
Even if they had managed to get over the channel landing on the beaches would have been hard as the British were ready to flood them with fuel and turn the coast into a wall of fire. My Grandfather worked on the pipelines.
Cody: says anything that involves an enemy the US doesn't like UA-cam: *stop that* Cody: but histo- UA-cam: we need to keep this place safe for (American) children
@@Bobby-dh9lc On the contrary. The concept of "Blitzkrieg" was invented to fight a 'short, decisive war.' Germany always was in between France in the west and Russia in the east. As they had found out during World War I, a two-front war is unwinnable. The Germans had to admit defeat and start peace negotiations in 1918 after the US of A sent American troops to Europe. Even though the Americans weren't big in numbers at that time, the Germans saw that soon, the Americans joining the war would mean ultimate defeat because the Americans could lose more men than the Germans could. So the Blitzkrieg idea was for a quick victory in the west in 1940, then steamroller the Soviet Union the next year. When the German armed forces began Operation Barbarossa in the Summer of 1941, they thought the war WOULD BE OVER BY CHRISTMAS AARG
@The Greatone I'm going to assume that you are alt-right because of your pfp so I can understand a slight bias towards the nazis, however, just to see if you know a single thing about what you're talking about, would you like to explain this "single" mistake the nazi's did that cost them the war?
@The Greatone I wasn't offended by the swastika I just assumed you were alt right, and that mixed with the the Germans would have won had it been for the one mistake, which you still haven't given me sounds rather sus.
@The Greatone That's the only things that made them lose then, because Japan would still have attacked pearl harbour and the Americans would still have come over to help, granted the war would have been longer but Germany would still lose, furthermore Stalin would have finally come to his senses by then and listen to his generals and advisors that Russia would have been getting spied on therefore resulting in the Russians going to war with Germany anyways, tbf what I am doing here is speculating alternate history, but after all that's why we watched this video on alt history
Thank you for that laugh! Can just imagine Ronnie driving up in his car up to a heavily fortified German military base and complaining that their base is blocking the local chippy where big Dave works. Ronnie: "Ay! I canny get to the chippy cause your stupid base is in the way!" German: "Was?" Ronnie: " It's a Friday night! You canny block the chippy on a Friday night!" German: "Was?" Ronnie: "You know who I am? I'm Ronnie Pickering!"
@@ianshaw2321 Yeah, people forget that many of them would have experienced one of the greatest advances in British military history..the Hundred Days in 1918. And early 40s isn't that old if you're on the defensive and pissed off.
The battle of Britain started in 1940. After winning the Battle of Britain, the Germans would have to plan the landings, organize and train the landing force, run counterintelligence to not have the Brits destroy the invasion fleet, and than carry out the landings. I could easily see this invasion taking place in 1944 or even 45
This scenario was played out at Sandhurst military academy in 1975 by the remaining British and German generals connected to the Sea Lion plan. Even under favourable conditions, the Germans were defeated after 4 days.
That's a good one! Well, I'm not sure if it's impossible to alter that, but I guess if it never happened, then most likely WW2 wouldn't have happen since that was what Hitler used to gain power. Though, then again, maybe the Soviets will cause WW2.
4:40 ''We shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”'' - Winston Churchill
So since this has Nazis in it, I have a feeling the UA-cam algorithm will just not promote and or kill the video views. To balance it out, 'like' this video so it has a chance to survive, and doesn't get thrown under the bus for involving Nazis. Thanks y'all
I've done it a few times, bro, and the flavor is pretty sub-par. Tastes of soggy beef jerky with hints of old pepperoni. I give it a light 4/10.
i really enjoyed eating the ass, a solid 9/10. good flavor, good texture
AlternateHistoryHub done
Maybe saying "Germans" instead of "Nazis" would help out a lot Cody.
Thank you, been a subscriber for 2 years and I love your content, you shouldn't be buried for using nazi and hitler due to people who don't want to be reminded (and/or compared to) the nazis
"I fear no man"
"But that thing"
*The English Channel*
"It scares me"
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Henrique Martins true, nothing on god green earth scared Teddy Roosevelt
@@about48hotchiks its seems you're wrong.
hey my good man teddy how u been
Cyber Warrior134 no, he is not. Now shut it
An English history teacher used to start his courses saying: “Great Britain is an island, now you know everything about its history”...
The Channel did stop Spain and Germany.
The Romans, Vikings and Normans (French) had no problem with it.
John Smith Because England didn’t have an established navy at that point, so nothing to stop them.
Also the Romans, Viking and Norman’s did have problems with storms and strong currents sinking ships and blowing them off course
@@Crashed131963 and how we got tea... sooo much tea... and oil
@@Crashed131963 and when the Normans invaded, that was the last time anybody invaded us.
@@oliverewarthopkins7818
Britain ua-cam.com/video/8_EABZSUbFw/v-deo.html has already been invaded by the looks of it.
“When 400,000 troops couldn’t get home...”. Directed by Christopher Nolan. ‘DOVER’
id pay to watch it
Very clever!
Dunkirk
@@yyxy.oncesaidthat's the joke....
"There would be a cup of tea behind each blade of grass." - General Erwin Rommel
ROMMEL
@@Sturmjuergen44 ha thanks!
Check out a facinating book on genocide called Death by Government by RJ Rummel. Thats where i got my U!
Earl Grey hot
Beautiful! Hilarious, sir!
German: steps on water
British: So you have chosen... Death
Britain couldnt beat Germany
@@charlesmatheka7707 Not in the sea
I find this amusing. British thinking they are the best. Americans thinking the same. Britain has the most naval experience due to its geographical location. But after giving up their colonies (by fource or willingly)..(or by some epic guy almost starving himself) America is by far the stronger country and as such has a better navy. Also wars like Vietnam are 100% opinionated. On a technical level america was winning. However Vietnam was a far less developed country in comparison and america was putting itself in an unnecessary position where it was at a disadvantage and losing more than it should have. Matched with the countless civilians dead by Americans and Vietnamese it was better to pull out of there. The only thing im gonna say which is opinionated is SAS is the best secret service :D
@@unoriginalwarden6315 Except the SAS didn't take out Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden.
@@liamwilson5670 bruh im sorry managed to reply to the wrong comment meant to send it to the coment with 196 replies fml. Also who did do that cus i honestly have no idea
In the 1960's, surviving Generals, both British and German, got together and wargamed Operation Sealion. They did it several times, altering the scenario on each occasion to reflect various general situations that might reasonably have existed. Every time they ran the wargame Sealion failed. German forces never managed to penetrate more than about twenty miles inland (well short of encircling London) and they were invariably driven back into the sea within a few days.
The scenario presented here, where German forces manage to push north of London, is actually quite an optimistic one, from a German point of view.
Over time even if Germany won the entire War , they would have gave back Britain, France, USA, Canada and Russia.
Just like the Russians gave back East Germany,Poland, Ukraine and Czechoslovakia in 1989.
Germany a country of only 80 million could not occupy Europe, America and Russia forever.
Let's get real.
Even Britain could not police and maintain Southern Ireland do to resistance fighting from the IRA.
@@Crashed131963
Maybe, but how long would it take?
Till they ran out of people to gas? Till they'd indoctrinated the next two or three generations of children? Till they'd bled these countries dry and used up the supply of slave labour?
You may be right, but I would suggest that any time at all living under such a regime would be intolerable for any decent person.
@@sirderam1 Stalin's communist Russia was just a clone of Hitler's Nazi Germany and Eastern Europe are adapting OK now that Russia left.
Once Hitler died his replacement could only be better like Stalin's replacement was.
@@Crashed131963
Maybe - but I'd be interested to know where you got your crystal ball?
...generals generally lose because they make predictable, flawed assumptions and predictable, flawed decisions based on predictable, flawed assumptions. Throughout the history of armed conflict you have victories, losses and draws. So roughly 2/3rds of generals are losers. The winning generals stay on and the losers are replaced.
Attacking the UK would at the very least have taken much of the RAF and British Navy out of the question. It simply begged for a command raid. Would have been brilliant even if they were pushed back into the sea.
Germany: ''You're stuck here with me!''
Britain: ''I'm not stuck here with you, you're stuck here with me!''
Well it is our island
*did I hear OIL?*
@@arrowup8711 ?
I thought you were trying to put in a Team Fortress 2 quote from Soldier. XD
The ink blots fall favourably on you my friend
Germany: surrender
Britain: no
Germany: well i gave all i could
Too bad the Channel Islands couldn't say the same thing.
Which leads to another question for the AlternateHistoryHub; What if the people of the Channel Islands were able to actively resist Nazi occupation?
Britain: We didn't have the proper facility to take you as prisoners , so we can't accept your surrender, sorry
Britain entered WW2 with 1918-level equipment and many shortages, so it couldn't fight Germany. The only thing Britian had was the Channel, which protected them because Germany isn't located at the sea and didn't have a good Navy. There was nothing Britain could do to defeat Germany. Had Hitler defeated the USSR, Britain would have to accept Germany as the new lord of Europe.
@@OutragedPufferfish 1918 level equipment? You mean the SMLE Mk.4? It's an improvement of SMLE Mk.3 which was the WW1 gun, and if you call the SMLE Mk.4 1918 level equipment then what is a kar98k?
@@gargamel679 That's what George Orwell thought
What if Napoleon ate a snickers bar before invading Iberia?
You're not you when you're hungry
if woulda had a snickers there would've been no invasion
Ethelbert Guthridge oi mate did your mum warm up your spaghetti-os too hot that you had to cry on to strangers on the internet
PluriiGaming no at all, this era of abstract. I'm sorry. ABSURD INTERNET HUMOR. Isn't funny at all. Young people only do this because it's trendy and they think they're mentally sharp or quick-witted by acting this way when really it makes them look annoying therefore stupid.
Ethelbert Guthridge TRRIGERD
Nazis: Surrender please Britain
Britain: We don’t do that around here
,,Germans".
Nazis: Well than, nevermind.
@@Lucas_07-PL nazis*
@@matthewmclean9012Those pp were Germans you moron , not some nazis from Mars.
@@matthewmclean9012 And your historical revisionism won't change it.
We're not trapped on an island with you. YOU'RE TRAPPED ON AN ISLAD WITH US!
@Aberdolf Lincler Those "farmers" in North America also included France's military might, as well as munitions and financial provisions, against Britain based thousands of miles away across the Atlantic in an era with still mainly wind-powered ships and word of mouth communication, where the Americans had the home advantage, support of the population (mostly) and thousands of civilian militia available at any time to back up their own military
@Aberdolf Lincler
Yeah, but those farmers were mainly British farmers.
(We beat the loin cloth wearers).
@Aberdolf Lincler I'm assuming your American judging by your ignorance? We were fighting France with a little bit of help from rowdy Americans. However in Vietnam, you were just fighting hiding rice farmers in tress yet still had a K/D worse than the Winter War.
Aberdolf Lincler No oral hygiene yet it’s been proven that the British have better dental health and hygiene than Americans and are one of the top in the world for healthy teeth.
Hold on everyone, he said the word "y'all" he must be a highly intelligent being.
British: "Hold them off the Scottish are on there way!!!"
German: "The wha-...."
Talk about a rude awakening lol
Can you imagine? Haha
FREEEEEDOOOOOOOOM!
The Scots after losing be like: HOLD OUT UNTIL THE IRISH ARRIVE!
Wouldn't that be the "Scoddish" ?
The German tanks would have got stuck on the M25
Danny Flint
They would get lost after finding the 512nd Junction 32
Sorry to be that guy but the M25 didn’t exist then 😉
R/wooosh
Jacob Armour
r/ihavereddit r/foundthemobileuser r/wooooshwith4os
Mate they would have to hope on the A12 too, that is a shit storm
Finally an alternate history covering the invasion of Britain that remembers the Royal Navy existed.
I know this is 1 year but how does Britain still maintain air superiority even if the Germans still continued bombing bases and ports making both the British air and naval in a small bad situation to begin with?
@@ftblaze6175 in the Battle of Britain the main reason Britain could keep going was when a plane was shot down the pilot was rescued and sent back to base to get a new one. Whereas trained a German pilots became prisoners of war. The Germans did lose many aircraft, but so did Britain, but Britain didn’t lose the pilots.
You'd think the whole "ruling the waves" thing would stand out to people, yeah?
@@ftblaze6175 the German bombers could not reach scapa flow where the main units of the Royal Navy were. Heck there was a plan to sail all 15 of Britain’s battleships into melee range of an invasion force
Key word “existed”
That's why Churchill sunk the French Navy
Michael Coleman really? Never knew bout that
@@erikapruda6202 www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-in-western-europe/operation-catapult/
@@erikapruda6202 The Germans were about to conquer France and take their military assets, so British operatives and French resistance destroyed as much as they could
Charlie Brooks there proper shit the french and italians
And most of the Italian Navy.
Germany: We have your capital surrounded!
England: *Sips tea in Glasgow*
Then the reinforcements from Birmingham come xd
I think they’d make it Belfast, another invasion needed, it has a parliament as well at this time
@@danielplayfair3596 well the issue with that was the Germans might have gotten of the Irish to invade Northern Ireland
@@jarlathquinn2628 Ireland had just became stable after years of unrest and they at this point like now, have a weaker force than the IRA
@@danielplayfair3596 well the IRA would have also attacked plus with sealoin going on they would have less troops in Northern Ireland and the Irish army attacking quick enough could have succeed
simple just throw dirt into the channel and connect britain to europe badabing badaboom
Just dig up half of Italy to do it. Would have made them more useful in the war
I was thinking that they could have used German technology to build the channel tunnel some 50 years quicker than was eventually achieved.
Of course the British unions would have been upset by this and mounted a counter attack demanding the 20 hour week, redundancy pay for any worker not employed and free champagne for the union bosses. Along with medical care, health care and a big increase in the wages paid for non work.
smitajky do I detect satire?!
10,000 years ago. Just dig up dogger land or suck the English channel out with a Henry Hoover.
the withering production worked for Alexander the Great
"The only thing that really did scare me during the war, was the U boat threat."
- Winston Churchill
For fear of loss of life, not an actual fear of being invaded.
Dano10101 no the fear of Britain’s supply with the outside world being cut and the British being starved into submission
@@frogchip6484
They tried that in WWI and we turned the country into a massive garden growing food. I think we'd be alright.
@@youraveragescotsman7119 *nah* because you’d also lose your war production supplies as well, then attrition is on the German side
@The Greatone well yeah
That’s the whole idea
Germany: SURRENDER!
UK: lol no
Germany: Understandable, have a great day
Meanwhile in france
More like Germany: "Listen here you little sh--"
@AileDiablo ah yes, the benefit of hindsight. The British had radars that Germany didn’t know about and they also had air and sea superiority, a night invasion is just gonna confuse the attackers even more than the defenders.
they also had nowhere near the resources and firepower to pull that off-supplying an entire invasion with submarines? Seriously?
@AileDiablo you do realize how far fetched this is right? You are suggesting sending literal terrorists into the uk which has reasons to not work, first of all being that Germany has no way to get them into the uk undetected and then arm them. There’s also the fact that they barely had any resources for the first invasion, they can’t just rinse and repeat because they’d ru out of oil and their soldiers would become demoralized. Again, most of the ships would never reach land if they attempted to cross, and the “small force” you are suggesting would probably last no longer than a week each while taking up an insane amount of resources they don’t have and giving the British a ridiculously good propaganda tool, and again shift morale and probably make the us more eager to join
@AileDiablo With respect, I think they would have made things worse for the Germans, significantly worse.
Nazi Germany: France has been destroyed. Surrender.
UK: Piss off
Nazi Germany: *You weren't supposed to do that*
Don’t forget Britain’s many cliffs that would make it harder for a wide landing front and a harder time for infantry without support
Have you ever been to England? Lol. There's plenty of beaches for them to have landed on
@@geegeeuk7 not enough for the proposed landing zone
Very true, especially for an amphibious assault on Dover.
@@geegeeuk7 The British had a whole system rigged up to pump millions of gallons of gasoline and fuel oil onto the beaches and set it on fire when the Germans tried to land. I'd be surprised if the Germans made it off the beaches.
@@geegeeuk7 And those beaches tend to be between some quite nasty cliffs and rocks, and the water between them and France moves at between 2 and 7 miles per hour sideways along the Channel - note the wide end to the west and the narrow bit to the east makes tidal currents *interesting*. Now, try hitting that beach in the dark, in a 10 mph tug pulling several barges ...
*Hoi4 Paratroopers intensifiy*
Not when you be playing MP vs a competent britain boi
Herpicus Mc Derpington Tru
I was waiting for an HOI4 reference! :)
HOI4 A.I Knows what it's doing
Pick one
Eero Laatunen *Tr
Germany: Britain! Lay down your weapons!
Britain: German!!!! COME AND GET THEM!!
"Greeks don't fight like heroes, heroes fight like Greeks" -Winston Churchill
I have 2 ideas for a good Alternate History video
*-What if the Holy Roman Empire lost against the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna?*
*-What if France and Austria won the Seven Years War instead of Britain and Prussia?*
*-What if the Fourth Crusade never happened?*
Kira Yoshikage what if Byzantium stayed alive.
@Edward Longshanks King of England Duke of Aquitaine
Well I think it's not guaranteed that the Ottomans would definitively lose all the battles in the war, because the Ottomans outnumbered the Christians by a laughable margin, and if the Polish didn't reinforce, then the Ottomans would've won the siege and in turn, win the war.
And yes, France was overstretched, but mainly they lost to the British because they couldn't choose a continent to focus their manpower and resources on. The British knew that it had no hope fighting in Continental Europe, therefore they focused all their efforts in the New World, India, and Africa. If the French used this to the advantage and say, invaded the British Isles, or if they spent the war aiding the Austrians, then the tides would turn in the favor of the Catholics.
@New Philosopher
Pretty good idea because if the Fourth Crusade never happened then the Byzantines would be in a much stronger place and might've stayed afloat much longer than they did. The Sacking of Constantinople was one of the stupidest events in Medieval Europe and it marked the Death of the Roman Empire and their legacy for the rest of history, and it would be interesting if it and the Fourth Crusade never even happened, but then again he did already make a video talking about if all the Crusades never happened.
@Emperor Leroy
I don't really see how that would be possible considering their Empire crumbled after the Rise of Islam and the Seljuk and Ottoman Turks pushed them out from Anatolia, and after the sacking of Constantinople, the Byzantines were a husk of their former glory, not to mention the Plague.
"Tom Hardy no" lol
I cracked up at that
That's what he gets for crashing planes with no survivors
Provocateur so? I suppose in your view we should've just surrendered?
MEDIOCRE, as I like to say.
+Provocateur The eye patch looks like Hungary
Also, they saw the English as Angolo Aryans. so their ideology acctually accepted a peace with Engeland and after that they wanted to become friends with the English.
@lvan Big Nob
The working class of Britain IS subhuman.
@@50centpb7 lmao
LARPing At Life without workers there is no England 🤷🏽♂️
@@GhostHalloumi
Without cattle there are no delicious steaks. What's your point? Chavs should be gassed.
LARPing At Life not every worker is a chav as working class isnt really a lower class
Germany: “you’re stuck here WITH ME!”
Britain: “haha, quite the opposite my friend”
It's easy. Just drop six para troopers on London in 1936.
xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
ok i cringe
Hoi4 reference?
@@rubenhaug3978 yes
How to invade Britain:
Easy mode:
1. revert back so 1.5.x.
2. Spam battleships.
3. Win.
Hard mode:
1. Spam literally every single ship.
2. Run out of oil.
3. Paradrop stuff.
4. Win.
How to invade Britain now: don't.
How to invade the UK
1. Rush Sub III.
2. Crush the British with the OP subs.
3. Paradrop and Naval invade
4. Win
No need. Here a guide:
1) stack your navy together, and prepare a naval invasion. Even of 10 divisions.
2) put your entire airforce on the english channel and start blowing ships to pieces.
3) when the invasion is ready, which is only 70 days, just launch it with all if your navy supporting it, most of the time the beaches won't even be defended.
4) bring the rest of your army, although really, 24 divisions are enough.
5) literally make a front line, draw a plan to just go to scotland and activate it
6) easy win
(All in 5 speed, with sometimes stopping the time for like 5 secs)
lex catarin how to be a scumbag:
1. Rush sub 3s
2. Rush sub 3s
3. Rush sub 3s
@@andymadden8183 Unless Your China,russia or the USA
I misread this as "What if Germany had invaded Berlin?"
CAPS LOCK I really think that would’ve turned the tide, in our timeline berlins entry into the war was what killed Germany in the end.
What is this magic?
if germany invaded berlin they could use the vast industrial centre to mass produce tanks and drive back the russians and invade north america!!!!!
Lol the dictator must have drunk too much wine if that happens😂😂
What is up with the invasion of Berlin by Germany? No make sense
**As a true Brit myself I declare that we... MUST DROWN THEM IN OUR TEA!!!**
**RULE BRITANNIA!!!!**
Unknown Identity in an alternate timeline Britain uses tea as execution methods
@@sorcererberoll4641 who said anything about alternative world
@Ben next war, they'll be using Nord VPN and the British will think that the French are invading, so they invade France, but as the army is distracted, Germany invades the U.K. that's how Germany could've won. They just needed NordVPN.
British dont say we are british english, Scottish, Welsh or Irish you sir ain't a true "brit" just for that statement
@Shonono Yeetus how is it not understandable?
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be.
What about rationing the tea?
Amen
We shall fight on land, we shall fight on the sea. We shall fight on the beaches, but we shall never surrender!
Amen!
True that
What if Mexico accepted the terms to the Zimmerman Telegram?
That's a good one
I thought that was WWI.
TrekII It was.
Dragon Drew simple America would demolish mexico
@Julian Harden Annexing Mexico as whole would provide a lot of consequences for the Americans. It would also affect its relations with other Latin American nation.
What if Jimmy didn't exist?
NO
then Timmy would die/get disfigured/get arrested/get sick/ etc. in every AlternateHistoryHub video instead.
Holy Roman Empire simple my friend we would all combust
Holy Roman Empire the world would be a better place for Cody
Holy Roman Empire he doesn't cause I'm mother fuckin' Timmy!
There's still one more factor to keep in mind : the British Empire had immense manpower reserves across the four Continents to whom it could turn to in case of desperate need. Therefore, any attempt of invading Britain was already doomed from the start.
@Techstorm 123 that is literally the reserves hes talking about, also by the time japan invaded the british raj, every optimistic knew barbarossa wasnt going to get every good
@Techstorm 123
Japan attacked the Raj in 1941, not 1940. By 1941 the UK was literally impossible to invade.
@Techstorm 123
Neither the attack against India or Egypt was going well. So the British are perfectly safe to draw soldiers from those areas.
HEY HEY HEY!!! Don't forget the colonies , if we knew that Britain was going to be invaded , the nazis would have to face the full fury of the Kangaroo's , the Kiwis , the Bar Fight Champions , the War Elephants , the Anglo-Zulu Warriors and , last of all , the White House Burners
Loyalist Canadian remember the Gurkhas and Scots!
What's funny is your not kidding.
lmao yes
Don’t forget the Egyptian mummies.
If Germany somehow managed to conquer London, the British wouldn't be able to maintain control of the Colonies.
I'm so glad that you actually did research on this topic. So annoying to have people go "DUR! ENGLAND WILL FALL" It's so nice to see an intelligent video.
Tipsy Fish uh hurr durr *pushes up glasses* the Reich can't fall u communist
RRRUUUUR NAPOLEON DID IT AND IT TOTALLY WORKED RUUURRR WHY ARE YOU SO LIBERRRRRRRAL ANTI-FAAAAAAAAAAA REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Tipsy Fish I agree
Ronzesker so I had an opinion and you’re upset because?
durr u didn't follow the hurr durr meme that is why he is upset
''Sea Lion was a plan of desperation.''
Hearts Of Iron IV players: *HOLD MY BEER*
Real Life: Germany had no hope of pulling off Operation Sea Lion, hence it wasn't even considered outside of the most desperate situations.
HOI4: Spanish anarchists sail from the tip of Iberia to Cardiff in bathtubs and force Britain to capitulate in one month.
@@Heisenberg929 I prefer Torpedo Bombers with Fighter Escorts but yes that is the solution for the massive inferiority on naval side.
Fuck that game I was doing so well as Britain under the Communists then I was conquered by a single grouping of Germans pissed me off so much
Makes you wonder,according the wargaming comment in this comment section,what exactly is HOI IV doing and/or what are the players doing that causes the invasion to work?
One thing includes paratroopers,since most players don't send giant numbers of them to invade a Greek island.
@@NareshSinghOctagon hoi4 doesn't/can't simulate all the problems that come with such an invasion. Gamers can also use 'gamey' tactics, exploiting the way the game works which would never work in real life. Also they often prepare with the goal of conquering the UK in mind, which Hitler never did.
Realistically, with the Royal navy being so huge, it wouldeve been almost imposable for the Germans to sustain any type of beach head once they were on English soil.
realistically, even in any scenario where the germans make it to british soil and keep going, they lose reguardless of any naval success up to that point.
germans cross the channel? loss. germans surround london? still loss. germans maintain supply lines? not for long. britain is an island, and that tells you all you need to know about why operation sealion fails in every possible case.
The RN was comparatively big at WW2 start but it was a quarter of it's size at the start of WW2 and it had world-wide commitments it had to maintain.
On the run up to WW1, we had what they called "a two power navy" meaning we could take on the worlds next two biggest navies simultaneously which could have been the US & Germany.
At some point this got prohibitively expensive
Also Churchill wrote in his history of WWII that they planned to use mustard gas to repel the invasion as a last desperate act.
what if the emu's from the great emu war came back today?
S C the emu’s won the great emu war
S C Like the Walking dead but with crazy man eating emus all over the place
What if the Aussies won the Great Emu War?
Goku Australian Empire that spans entire world. The Great Emu War decided course of history. Victor took over entire world and in real like Emus have already done that, If Australians won we would lose our independence to them as they bear fruits of hard won victory with mllions of Australians dead.
Little known fact it was the death of an ostrich that started WW1.
How do I know?
Because Baldrick says so in 'Blackadder goes forth' (a brilliant BBC comedy from the late 80s) so it must be true 😉 lol
I don't know why, but the tugboats thing got me good xD
Me too lmao I thought I would be the only one that laughed at that 🤣😂
Shame they didn't had TOGboats instead.
@@loganfox2386 I laughed at the tugboats to.
I can just imagine the meeting
Random nazi: hey Hitler, about operation sea lion..... it was a total failure, all the men are dead or have surrendered and we basically have no more fuel due to the fact that most of it was sunk along side the boats, that also had other supplies which we're now limited on, speaking of which the navy now has basically no ships at all.
Hitler: *flips table* FUUUUUCK!
Its basically like the scene in downfall and hitler rants 😂
Hitler: Nein Nein Nein Nein Nein!!!!!
It basically a "well shit" moment
Hitler: “Nun, scheiße...”
Had Nazi Germany lost 1 MILLION men in Operation Sea Lion plus many tanks, planes and ships...
...the Soviets bulldoze the Axis
WW2 ends early and the Cold War starts early
I wish I lived in that timeline. Less people die in WW2
What about doing a video on: what if the U.S. never joined WW2
Knowledge Headquarters that would be interesting...
Hmm
The soviet union would have ruled all the way to eastern france
I think he technically did that in two videos.
Simple answer: We (Britain) would have been fucked.
Germany never had the boats to invade Britain. It took two years for the U.S. to build enough to invade Europe, the Germans never even started a program to build them.
I thought the Royal Navy took the Americans on D Day.
@@CIMAmotor They did but don’t interrupt an American when they’re taking credit for everything.
@@tomben6180 landing craft, not the escort ships. They were talking about the actual BOATS that tarried the soldiers from the ships to the beach.
@@crocodileguy4319 No Royal Navy, no D Day, it was a joint effort and therefore the original point about it taking America two years is a false one, it took Britain and America 2 years.
@@tomben6180 don't underestimate America and their ability to manufacture war goods. The fleet to fight Japan in the Pacific and the cash grab the US had selling arms & resources to Britain, in both world wars.
The Royal Navy was far, far, too strong for the Germans to invade, even if the German Air Force had managed to defeat the RAF. Even if the Germans had got some men ashore, the RN would have cut off the German supplies. Operation Sealion was a total non starter.
99IronDuke how about the German air Force. (And the uboots) these things caused major damage
The problem the Germans had is that Hitler got pissy after the Churchill "we'll fight them on the beaches" speech and changed targets. Instead of bombarding mainly RAF targets and really dominating the skies, he forced them to start hitting civilian targets and cities.
Keep bombarding the RAF and you eventually have control of Britain's airspace. After that, the invasion gets A LOT easier. Probably not the glorious victory that Hitler would be looking for, but without the RAF and the Navy meeting it's match against the Luftwaffe, Britain would be forced to look at peace talks
+CMD 3 that's a total myth that was started by the Luftwafffe itself. The British never permanently lost a single airstip, factory or RADAR station to the German bombing because the ordanance wasn't large enough, resistance was too strong and their bombing missed absolutely everything that wasn't literally the size of a city. The fact that the Germans change targets did give the RAF some breathing room but it didn't save them and the attrition rates of the Luftwaffe still would have been far too high to maintain the air war, still resulting in an emphatic RAF victory.
The myth started because at the start of the Battle of Britain the Germans believed the British only had over 200 aircraft when in fact the real numbers were 300% larger and the British overestimated the Luftwaffe numbers, resulting in over compensation of aircraft proudction and the British begain outproducing the Germans with a far more acceptable loss ratio.
Bear in mind that Britain lost 60,000 civilians in the entire war through German targetting of civilian areas, whereas the British killed around 400,000 German civilians through targetting of mostly industrial areas with a bomber loss ratio that never exceeded 10%. If Germany didn't outright surrender from bombing that was literally 10x more intensive, why would the British ever surrender to an air campaign doomed to fail?
LedAvalon they wouldn't surrender from the air campaign. And with the Luftwaffe bombarding better targets, they wouldn't need it to. All you need is to slow the RAF to the point where your resources can occupy the Royal Navy.
Don't get me wrong, you're right to think that the outcome is still probably a German loss in Britain if they don't improve. But Hitler changing targets gave the RAF the breathing room necessary to fight back.
Ironically, Hitler made the same mistake in Russia during the Battle of Kursk. Had he allowed the Wermacht to press on instead of diverting forces to an already lost Italy, the war in the East probably leads to a stalemate or even a German victory
You're still perpetuating the myth my friend, the RAF was not meaningfullly slowed down by the tagettting of RAF targets, there were too many airstrips, too many fighters, too many RADAR stations and nowhere near enough air power to suprress them.
Once again I'm sorry but there's another fallacy. The Germans had no dedicated naval bombers and their bombers were too inaccurate and their dive bombers were too weak to even stand a good chance at disabling a destroyer. I read about a battleship that was targetted and attacked for days by dive bombers but they simply couldn't do any meaningful damage about it, I'lll send the link if I can find it.
Even if the Luftwaffe could seriously damage the Royal Navy, the British had more ships than the Germans had planes, the sheer military force of the navy would be more than enough to resist an invasion and sustain enemy fire.
U.K: wanna hear a joke?
germany: sure
U.K: London
germany: I dont get it?
U.K: exactly
We should've made a naval version of blitzkrieg
*And at least 27 Bismarcks*
I think Germany putting u boats in production rather then Bismarck’s would be much more effective, especially if Germans had finished there own nuclear bomb then Britain would have most definitely surrendered, but that’s just my opinion
@@lorddeath6300 wooosh?
Also didn't *ze Germans* kill off all of or most of their scientists working on the atom bomb for being Jewish?
Hans not sure I really didn’t knew that but I heard that the Germans were racing the Americans to make the first atom bomb, either way fleets of u boats could easily sink British ships and defend supply lines, not sure how it would play out but I’m optimistic
@@lorddeath6300 The U-Boat was never in a position to give the Kriegsmarine total control over the Channel, and the German nuclear bomb project was so far behind it wasn't even a race.
Alex Francey well shit son all I knew was that Germans were making a bomb but still tho in an alternate history everyone has an opinion
Your videos are probably the best I have ever seen.
gjedv
“Seen”😂
This video is full of errors.
If even Hitler thinks it's doomed to fail, that probably means it's a bad idea.
Mandalore Dash i mean hitler thought invading russia was a good idea so thats saying a lot lol
Hitler also delayed development of the worlds first cruise missile because he had a dream it would set the sky on fire. After the war Allied generals said that had the V bombs been hitting England during the preparation for D-day, as opposed to several months after it, that would have severely disrupted their preparations.
Considering Russia lost a war to a handful of drunken Finnish farmers just a couple of years prior, and that they were defeated by Germany the last world war, the invasion of Russia wasn't a stupid idea.
Well, Hitler actually thought it was a *bad* idea to invade Russia. It was the Winter War that showed the Soviets were a paper tiger and that, should Germany invade, she had to do so at once, before Russia got strong.
Matthew Van Buren yeah Napoleon probably said something similar before his own invasion
British : WE NEED TO HOLD OUT, *THE IRISH AND THE SCOTTISH* IS COMING WITH AN AID
German : ZE WHAT?
*Bagpipe noise from the distance*
ZE WAS
Meanwhile from the other distance:**soviet athem**
@@agusmohamad8572 Operation Barbarossa didn't happen tho
The Scottish are British, as is half of Northern Ireland.
@@tomben6180 I mean, all Irish are technically British by means of the fact Ireland is a part of the British Isles. It ain't called Great Britain because it is a great place. But that is only through a geographic lense on it. Politically and ethnically the Irish are distinct from the rest, aye.
There is a famous saying that the English channel was the worlds largest anti tank ditch.
Did you get the idea of that from Squire?
AMGaming nope I actually read about it
Well, Squire mentioned it in one of his videos.
Mat Cauthon the english channel is the only reason why england exsists as a country.
Yep, poor Europe with its 'land borders'.
What if I hooked up with that blonde 2 years ago?
Your balls would have been a bit lighter 🍼
yes and they're frankly too damn large right now @@1985moonraker
to quote ACDC "I have big balls"
'Her' name is Kevin now.
Joe Blow you would have gotten aids
Here’s something no one ever mentions. Germans would have had no escorts for their landing ships. They lost a shit ton of destroyers in a ambush by british battleships in the battle of narvik. So they couldn’t have even protected their troops crossing the channel
He should have covered a scenario where Germany didn't do Operation Wesurubung, and thus had a more functional navy. Granted, that wouldn't change much (their navy would still be jack shit compared to the Royal Navy,) so...
You have missed a scenerio and probably the most interesting aspect on an invasion of England..... Churchill feared that Germany would invade. Churchill made plans to wage a Guerilla war. Plans were made to destroy roads, bridges and railways. Civilians were trained in firearms and making IEDs. Even school children were to be trained in using weapons. Schools had weapons and munitions hidden in them. Churchill even ordered soldiers to bury weapons chaches in their gardens in England. When the war turned and we gained the upper hand alot of this soldiers went off to mainland europe and died. Some of these caches of munitions are found to this day when people build house extensions, etc. The plan was to wead down the Nazis from within.
Sorry T C, but you'll have to explain "wead down" I don't know the word "wead"
@@migranthawker2952 Erode may be a better word. Although i think i just miss spelt wear.
Yes obviously churchhill prepared. but canada wargames and prepares for a US invasion, doesnt mean it would feasibly happen
the home guard was marching with broom handles.
@@judd-on5vz America sent arms to Britain just when they needed them. A violation of the Neutrality Laws, but nonetheless...
Operation Sea Lion was wargamed at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1974. The umpires were WW2 Generals and Admirals from both sides. They assumed 89,000 troops rather than 67,000. The Germans only advanced about 10 miles inland before becoming bogged down. On D+2 the Royal Navy arrived with 17 cruisers and 57 destroyers, sinking about 65% of the German fleet for the loss of only 2 destroyers. The invasion force was cut off with between 2 and 7 days worth of supplies. German forces in Britain surrendered on D+6. 26,000 were killed in action, 33,000 captured, 15,000 drowned in the English Channel and only 15,000 escaped back to France.
>1940
>soldier holding an STG44
British Soldier holding M1 Garand instead of Lee Enfield
Who fucking cares
William Steers thinks he's hard starting shit at a comedic UA-cam comment
Sunshine there's only so many images of guns he has access to, presumably
I noticed that too.
I thought I read what if Germany invaded Berlin
Lol same
lol
Then Britain would attack London ... Teabag bombing
Germany *lands on Britannia*
Britian:
*image of dude spamming blue button saying gas attacks*
This invasion would’ve blown up in Germany’s face if they ever even tried that.
Can you do an alternate history on if the British empire didn't give away it's territories
same thing that happened when France tried to hold on , violent revolutions followed by decades of resentment
Bankrupt Britain at the benefit of absolutely nothing. There was a reason why the decolonization occurred relatively peacefully under Eden and Atlee
He already did. And it wasn't just Britain in the scenario, but all European powers, and what happened is essentially what happened with Portugal. Insurgencies slowly got deadlier and deadlier the more technology advanced until eventually the Empires just gave up.
Britian would go broke and collapse into chaos
I believe its called "The Battle of Britain" for a reason
Mojave Courier The Battle Of France ended with the complete bitch smacking of allied forces and the surrender of France, so I don’t think that works
@@looinrims he said Britain not france
@@joshuacoaker6987 If you look I’m replying to someone else about the battle of France, they’re just pathetic and deleted the comments
@@looinrims that makes sense now
I just realized that the acronym for Alternate History Hub is just AHH!
And just the words Alternate History: AH
ADOLF HITLER
Adolf Hitler's Hernia?
@@austrakaiser4793 Adolf hitler hentai?
@@Drheims Adolf Hitler Hangout?
What happened if Spain joined the axis in ww2
LOL Spain would make WW2 end faster
Portugal would join the allies and would be 1 more front
Hoàng Nguyên so they would be DESTROYED?
Hoàng Nguyên i am not spanish btw
Hoàng Nguyên im pretty sure they're NOT
What about doing a video: what if normandy failed?
robert musialek Interesting, I guess the war would be maybe a year longer, and much larger part of Europe would be overrun by the Red Army. But I guess the western allies would have made another attack, or if it took too long would have eveb used nuclear weapons in Europe. Also the cold war afterwards would have been much hotter with all of Germany on the Soviet side and maybe even more.
robert musialek Instead of stopping at Berlin Soviets take over all of Europe and bcome a Super Ruper Duper Power.
robert musialek you mean the 1066 or the 1944?
maybe the allies finnaly lose hope and decide to make peace, leading to the transfer of thousand of troops to the east...
nigguh Which does not matter as Soviets have already won the war and are already invading parts of Germany.
wolfenstein 2 electric boogaloo
Germany: surrender
Britain: no
Germany: ok i’ll invade you
Britain: *i dare you*
So you're telling me it would've ended up exactly like the invasion into the Soviet Union, getting close to the capital but ultimately surrounded and forced to surrender an entire army.
no this optimistic, they would have just been annihilated in the channel by the royal navy
It's probably worse as the Germans was looking at oil at the caucus at that point
What do u get for invading Britain
Honestly they couldn't even get past the airforce, they never stood a chance against the navy
EDIT: Damn, you actually directly mentioned that. You never cease to impress
Lol, it almost did happen and your information are incorrect.
Nazis in fact almost crush British Air Defense, just Hitlers stop War of England just before it did happen unaware how close he was to win it. Furthermore Britain has serious problem with fending of two heavily armed cruisers where they lost in combat they flag battleship "Hood" and almost lost they brand new battleship "Prince of Wales". At that time British Navy was pale shade of they past though they still were major regional player even if they navy was seriously outdated and rusted. In proper circumstances Germans definitely could defeat it.
TheRezro you have horrible grammar and though the luftwaffe wasnt annihilate. Britain completely had that. Also it wasn't just Britain all of the allies were involved in the defence
@Spectrum16
I'm guess what kiddo? A foreigner. And using grammar argument is instant rhetorical suicide by the way.
Do you seriously think that Britain put even a dent on Luftwaffe? Lol, what a joke. Nazis have superior air-fleet then Britain, just that Hitler decided to move his forces on Western front what end Battle of England. You completely confused facts here. Britain itself admit that they almost lost.. not the opposite.
And you say that "all of the allies were involved in the defense"? Yeh right. USA was involved on Pacific Front. They couldn't and didn't send anything before majority of war with Japan ended. Before any P-51 and B-17 arrived only inferior Spitfire and Lancaster fight there. When Yanks arrive it was way after War of England. France at that point was under German hill, Span was with Germans, only forces what fight there were refugees like famous Polish air division (fighting on British plains). And Russia has own war and didn't involve itself "dirty capitalist". That where that involvement end (in air defense because supply is other story).
Meh, a very lazy and not well thought through episode of alternate history.
Of course air superiority was a neccessary condition for something like Operation Sealion.
Once gaining air superiority failed, all invasion plans were cancelled and more specific plans for invading the Soviet Union were developed.
So an alternate line in history where Germany invades the UK mainland would include German air superiority.
With it, naval supremacy of the UK becomes relative because UK ships would not have been able to simply enter the English Channel and hunt German transport and supply ships but suffer huge losses from air and torpedo attacks. Also, with air superiority over the English Channel, the German Navy would have been able to concentrate its forces within the English Channel and support the operation.
This neccessary condition changes the whole scenario.
Spectrum16 US wouldn't be involved until 1941 and even then, Hitler reluctantly declared war because of the alliance with Japan. Suez, Malta, Gibraltar, and Singapore were all threatened at one point or taken and India was over British rule and wanting independence. ANZAC, what was left of mainland resistance and Canada aided UK. Roosevelt was nervous for the Atlantic Charter and Lend Lease to be even that remotely involved because of the American public opinion. By all accounts, UK had little choice but to be self reliant and hold on.
What if Australia won the great emu war
Echo They wouldnt get laughed at
Australia would be colonizing Mars and beyond
Echo Australia would take over the world
Normie
Germany: surrender
Britain: *laughs in British* no
The allies: D-Day
Nazi's in this scenario: Uno reverse card
Love the Uno reference but I don't think young people grow up now playing cards like we, and our parents and grandparents did, pre-internet and all. God I hope someone else gets it lol.
@Joseph Demis
It’s a meme. I know how to play UNO too, and I’m 19. I’m pretty sure people do still play cards.
How in the World... Did I read the Title of this Video...
as "What if Germs had invented Brains?"
The World would be much more... Shiny.
Kinggpatrick dyslexia
Kinggpatrick LMAO 😂😂😂
_Hmmmmm_
Kinggpatrick lol
Or they could just drop 6 paratroopers onto London, works every time!
#HOI4 memes4life
One of my early games (first on Europe) as Vichy France, invading the UK terrified me and I was considering just giving up. I said fuck it, place all my ships in the channel, declared, and walked onto England. They fell in less than two months.
Oh the days when I thought the game was complicated... I the drove 5 Soviet light tank divisions into Zaragoza... it wasn’t long until Republican Spain won the civil war... how do people think it’s hard to do that again?
Fucking oi
Actually I managed to defeat England in 1941 in hoi4 Because they left Dover completely unguarded.
I quickly send my navy to shortly protecc the channel (because staying there is a deathwish)
I sent one panzer division to invade and after that told all my other 100+ divisions to get the hell to England.
Almost everything went right although taking the southeast (basically greater London) took me some time until I basically told my army to rush L.
Sry of it's a TL:DR I just love Hoi4
My Grandma was a child in Britain during WW2 and she always tells me how after how quickly most of Europe fell to the Nazi’s they were genuinely afraid about the Nazi’s being able to create some horrible new weapon to cross the channel and invade the British Isle.
Of course we can look back and realize how unlikely this was but for a child who constantly heard about the Nazi’s being this indestructible fighting force and genuinely feared about the possibility of their home being next this was a somewhat terrifying possibility.
Member when Britain was one of the most powerful countries?
Ooooh I remembah!
stop making fun of my city
remembah empire
Member when western Europe was christian and not muslim? Oooh I member!
Oi mate! Where's your internet loicense?
read this comment Their still pretty powerful. They have some of the most highly trained armed forces in the world ( SAS), are currently adding two super
carrier's to their navy, and having a nuclear arsenal, with one of its submarines on patrol at all times.
Do one where the nationalists won the Chinese civil war
East Asia wouldn't have fallen to the damn reds.
Same as South East Asia.
If that Chang guy didn't wanna go for personal revenge then yeah the Chinese commutes would have lost
Alan Goldsmith well that would be bad
Alan Goldsmith Yes
The more you watch these videos, the more you realise axis victory was impossible.
Had France gone to war with Germany over the Rhineland the Nazis would have been overthrown by their own people for incompetence
Had Czechoslovakia said no the Osteer Conspiracy kills and overthrows the Nazis
Had France invaded Germany the same time it was invading Poland WW2 would have been over by 1941
It wasn't impossible, it was very likely had they not invade the Soviets and ally with the Japanese Empire. A Germany that focuses all its forces on allies would've made any landing on mainland Europe impossible. By Allies I'm excluding the US, because US would extend the war and force Nazis to surrender same for same reasons as in WW1.
Even if the British were defeated the germans still had to worry about the devil's in skirts farther up the island
What would Scotland do lad🤣🤣 love Scotland but let’s be real Scotland are nothing without us
Juan Frede listen don’t take it the wrong way I love Scots most my family live there it’s just let’s be honest England supports Scotland a lotttt
Maybe Hitler would have worked with Celtic nationalists (Scots, Irish, Welsh), offering them independence/German support if they joined the Axis.
It is purely a hypothetical.
Master Yoda did Glasgow or Edinburgh fall the scotts would declare there independence and take over the bloody island
Even if they had managed to get over the channel landing on the beaches would have been hard as the British were ready to flood them with fuel and turn the coast into a wall of fire. My Grandfather worked on the pipelines.
Azphreal They were also prepared to break out the poison gas.
That's fucking metal, holy shit.
Cody: says anything that involves an enemy the US doesn't like
UA-cam: *stop that*
Cody: but histo-
UA-cam: we need to keep this place safe for (American) children
But it's the Germans that want UA-cam to censor Nazi mentions. They have entire laws describing how it's illegal to depict them in most contexts.
@@nolin132 it is in most of Europe not just Germany in england It would get you arrested for a hate crime
Odd considering Europeans are the most sensitive of all the western citizenry, but keep saying the tee hee funny haha
@@looinrims it's not the ppl it's the law makers
soviet simon must’ve missed the part where Europe is full of monarchs and dictators who aren’t elected by the people or anything
I wonder if Cody would give his own take on the final(?) WoTs War Story;
'Kennedy's War' aka What if the U.S. invaded Cuba?
tsuyoshi15 we probably wouldn't be here right now if Kennedy invaded
Edit: Cuba
Why would I invade Cuba with the military we already have all the cigars
Yeah, that's a good question. I think it's most likely that he might.
WW2 was never on the Germans side their failure was inevitable it was just a matter if how long the war would be drawn out for
Yeah we can see that now but then it wasn't known
@@Bobby-dh9lc On the contrary. The concept of "Blitzkrieg" was invented to fight a 'short, decisive war.'
Germany always was in between France in the west and Russia in the east.
As they had found out during World War I, a two-front war is unwinnable.
The Germans had to admit defeat and start peace negotiations in 1918 after the US of A sent American troops to Europe.
Even though the Americans weren't big in numbers at that time, the Germans saw that soon, the Americans joining the war would mean ultimate defeat because the Americans could lose more men than the Germans could.
So the Blitzkrieg idea was for a quick victory in the west in 1940, then steamroller the Soviet Union the next year.
When the German armed forces began Operation Barbarossa in the Summer of 1941, they thought the war
WOULD BE OVER BY CHRISTMAS AARG
@The Greatone I'm going to assume that you are alt-right because of your pfp so I can understand a slight bias towards the nazis, however, just to see if you know a single thing about what you're talking about, would you like to explain this "single" mistake the nazi's did that cost them the war?
@The Greatone I wasn't offended by the swastika I just assumed you were alt right, and that mixed with the the Germans would have won had it been for the one mistake, which you still haven't given me sounds rather sus.
@The Greatone That's the only things that made them lose then, because Japan would still have attacked pearl harbour and the Americans would still have come over to help, granted the war would have been longer but Germany would still lose, furthermore Stalin would have finally come to his senses by then and listen to his generals and advisors that Russia would have been getting spied on therefore resulting in the Russians going to war with Germany anyways, tbf what I am doing here is speculating alternate history, but after all that's why we watched this video on alt history
Ronnie Pickering would have saved the day
The Whiffy Box Sniffer legend
He would of just pulled up at Dover and asked the nazis “do u know who I am”
Can just see Ronnie offering Hitler a Bare Knuckle over there
Thank you for that laugh! Can just imagine Ronnie driving up in his car up to a heavily fortified German military base and complaining that their base is blocking the local chippy where big Dave works.
Ronnie: "Ay! I canny get to the chippy cause your stupid base is in the way!"
German: "Was?"
Ronnie: " It's a Friday night! You canny block the chippy on a Friday night!"
German: "Was?"
Ronnie: "You know who I am? I'm Ronnie Pickering!"
Watch the whole video imagining that Hitler is the guy on the bike.
Anyone who ever has played Supremacy1914 knows invading islands is always dangerous
Imagine floating in your flat bottomed boat and the Rodney turns up.
Still trying to figure out where “bridden” is
I think it's where the Briddish live.
As a Brid I can cofirm I am Briddish
bridden
Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson, Lance Corporal Jones and the Walmington-on-Sea platoon HG, would've thrown them back into the sea.
Cpt. Mainwaring might have been a military idiot but he would have been prepared to die for the England he loved.
Hundreds of thousands of 40 year old WW1 vetererans would have made it very uncomfortable
@@ianshaw2321
Yeah, people forget that many of them would have experienced one of the greatest advances in British military history..the Hundred Days in 1918. And early 40s isn't that old if you're on the defensive and pissed off.
The music was perfect. I don't know why, but it just made the audacity of this situation even more pronounced.
“Nah mate” is probably the most British thing ever said
Wehrmacht soldeirs using the STG44 in a 1940 invasion?
Thank-you for noticing this. I did too and am fussy.
I'm gessing they are not really stg44's... more like broad visual representations of shooty bang bang sticks that kill.
Love me some Anarchronism.
The battle of Britain started in 1940. After winning the Battle of Britain, the Germans would have to plan the landings, organize and train the landing force, run counterintelligence to not have the Brits destroy the invasion fleet, and than carry out the landings. I could easily see this invasion taking place in 1944 or even 45
Jonesy and Capt. Mainwaring had it well in hand. No fear.
They don't like it up em!
Ah yes, a full-scale invasion of Briddun
This scenario was played out at Sandhurst military academy in 1975 by the remaining British and German generals connected to the Sea Lion plan.
Even under favourable conditions, the Germans were defeated after 4 days.
"Nein, not like this!" That one actually got a chuckle out of me.
What if the Great Depression never occurred ?
That's a good one! Well, I'm not sure if it's impossible to alter that, but I guess if it never happened, then most likely WW2 wouldn't have happen since that was what Hitler used to gain power. Though, then again, maybe the Soviets will cause WW2.
4:40 ''We shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”'' - Winston Churchill
Lmfao at Hitler’s “Wunderbar”.
Where's "Briddin"? As a well-travelled Englishman myself, it's strange I've never heard of this place?