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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
Hitler didn't even occupy the whole of France, a country which had surrendered, and he would have been trapped in a quagmire, literally, in Russia for a decade while having to maintain control of the rest of Europe he'd occupied.
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Yeah, Hilter set up a rump state - Vichy France. But even Vichy France was divided into half, half of which was directly controlled by the Nazis and the other half had a French government that was nothing more than puppets.
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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
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It's a matter of historical fact how much he admired the British Empire almost as much as he loathed the Russians. By the time he'd suppressed/liquidated them, if ever, Britain may have already developed its atom bomb, whereupon we'd have a situation with dictatorship across Europe, with a few free countries, one of which was nuclear armed.
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He claims he admired the British, but he desperately wanted to bring them to heel. He just physically couldn't. The British controlled the channel and the skies; Germany tried to build an invasion fleet by the Brits just attacked them from the air and destroyed them before the Germans could get enough boats ready for Sea Lion.