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Originally Posted by DDLDSDB
I actually thought my post was a no brainer. But Klaus hit it on the head. That wasn't the last time England was kicked off the Continent either. England would have perhaps been finished. America would not have had a place to bomb places like Dresden and all those other civilian targets. And most likely England couldn't either. I guess Germany not being able to invade England (which I agree,at that time) puts to rest the 'threat' he posed to America also. As far as pow's, not Germanys bad luck. Hitler made a big mistake in trying to show England didn't want war with them.
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It would've been a great morale booster for the Germans, but it would hardly have changed the course of the war. Even if the 200,000 men were completely wiped out at Dunkirk, Germany still had no means whatsoever to launch an effective cross-Channel invasion. Germany simply did not have enough transports to mount an effective initial landing to secure a beachhead for subsequent landings; did you know that they even considered towing river barges for Operation Sea Lion at the risk that some of them might not survive the journey (therefore possibly drowning the occupants)? If Germany could not threaten Britain with an invasion, then how would it actually change the course of the war?