During this time Churchill was asking for America's help. It did not matter to us until Japan attacked Leaving our father land to suffer. Odd to me to think of my country not jumping into a war. Didn't we invent the concept of Democracy? Churchill is an interesting leader to me. Even with America's help if there is no Eastern Front and victory in the Battle of Britain Hitler would have seceded. Once the UK has fallen it's a naval war with America which even before Pearl Harbor was not as strong as the British Navy. Other Americans like to think he was too afraid to invade since we have guns. This is silly he would have unless we agreed that all of Europe was his. And even then in 5 or 10 years he would.
Operation Sealion was doomed before it was started . The RAF was far superior to the Luftwaffe . That's why the Germans failed during the Battle of Britain . The German ME109 was a good fighter but the Supermarine Spitfire was far superior . The lack of air time the German fighter planes had ,was also another factor. IIRC they had approx. just over 30 minutes in British Airspace before they had to return for fuelling leaving the bombers exposed. Germany also lacked a heavy bomber and relied too much on twin engined mediums . The Royal Navy was superior to the Kriegsmarine . Lack of investment by Hitler made the KM the poor service of the Reich . At the time we had one of the best navies in the world only bettered by the USA .
When Hitler had a choice between using Germany's resources to invade England (where there were few Jews) versus invading Poland and Russia (where the vast majority of European Jews were located) we know what he did and why. Hitler didn't invade territory primarily to build a German Empire, he invaded territory to kill Jews. Even in the final months of the war when his generals were begging for trains to move their troops and reinforcements, Hitler even then ordered priority be given the trains hauling Jews to the east to the ovens. His primary objective in starting war in the first place was always the extermination of Europe's Jews. Anything else was always of secondary importance.
WoW~ I always kind of thought that after spending time in Poland and The Czech Republic. Warsaw was awesome and depressing... and then I saw "The Piano." Wow.
Hitler never really wanted to invade Britain, that's why he stopped advancing after Dunkirk. As unfocusedanakin said, Sir Winston Churchill's tireless contribution to the entire war effort goes without saying to be the most pivotal, especially early on. Legend.
Sealion would have been a bloody disaster! Those 2000 river barges were a death trap trying to survive in the English channel tides, winds and waves. The RN Home Fleet would have slaughtered them.
The US was providing help to the UK via the lend-lease program prior to formally entering the war. Lend-Lease - Wikipedia As @Bilby already pointed out, the US was not the inventor of democracy nor the concept of democracy.
Or hide the fact that he him self had jewish roots. Plus a large portion of the Nazi money actually was spend on searching for mythological creatures/ animals in german woods.
It's true, they were in search of creatures mentioned in fairytales and operas (for some reason) more specifically Wagner's opera's I can't remember what these animals were called, but one of the was alledgedly a giant bull like creature. Most of the Nazi leadership was almost obssesed with ocultisme, and ancient germanic and nordic mythology. A good sign of that is that they chose the swastica as their symbol, which was an ancient symbol of the sun in both the ancient germanic and nordic cultures
Also america had been planning ot go in to the war before pearl harbour, they were being heavily worked on by british intelligence (S.O.E a predacessor to the MI 6)
Excellent points. The only three I see worth adding are three reasons that, as you point out, the RAF was far superior to the Luftwaffe. First, the British produced so many fighter aircraft because they overestimated Luftwaffe capability. Second, Goering accepted underestimates (by a full half) of the number of fighter aircraft the RAF could put into service. The third major error followed a simple error by two German pilots who misread their positions and dropped bombs on London, rather than on airfields. The British responded by dropping bombs on the Berlin suburbs, and (the grave error here) an enraged Hitler ordered a shift from targeting airfields to targeting civilians - cities and towns. That not only stiffened British resolve, but, more importantly, it guaranteed British air superiority. If the Germans had kept hammering ports, shipping, and airfields, instead of turning to population centers, the invasion and occupation might have succeeded.