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Originally Posted by Roddoss72
While i do agree with what you have written. It is that the way you suggest it the Germans would not be ready to launch Operation Seelowe until 1945.
What you are suggesting that the Germans effectively remodel their whole Wehrmacht (especially the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine) to do this it would take years, by this stage when they are ready the Hammer and Sickle has been hoisted above the Reichstag.
The one thing the Germans did not have and that is the Luxury of time, and invasion such as Operation Seelowe had to be launched within a four week window, i suggest no later than 19th July 1940 this give the Germans at least 6 days of good weather and channel conditions.
As i said i was putting a senario together to get this going, but i had to put it on the backburner, but my interest is piqued now so i'll come up with a senario.  |
No, I'm saying their window of opportunity was closed by September, in order to have had a ghost of a chance they would have had to have done all this years before they did in real life. They would have had to start in say 1935, with all the industrial, political and operational compromises and foresight that that involved.
Doing it on the fly wouldn't work.