Gloria X- 'I think if the Germans had invaded the UK and imposed their system, this wouldn't have lasted longer than the occupation of France, Holland, etc. because both the USSR and the US would have possibly sped up the invasion of Western Europe. I guess the Russians could have easily gone across the Channel competing with the Yankees - don't you know that Zhukov's plan was to go as far as Gibraltar? That would be a sweet life for you guys - building Communism under 5-year plans, comrades? '
Which would have made the Cold War interesting. I wonder what effect it would have had on the McCarthy era commie witch-hunt? Would any of it even have happened?
Hitler never wanted a big war with Britain, as he saw it as detrimental to the health of the British Empire, which was the icing on the cake, and he considered the country fairly worthless without it. But it was also Britains Achillie's Heel, the country relied heavily on imports. Britain wasn't really in a position to go to war, the financial costs of WW1 were still being felt, and defence spending was under 5%, an all time low. The financial crisis of '31 left millions unemployed.Even after his grab at Czechoslovakia, the British still saw Fascism as preferrable to Communism, hence the popularity of charactures such as Oswald Mosely, who was more than the fringe loony he is made to look today.
Even after Britain, unexpectedly soon to Hitler, declared war, there was still a push for appeasement with Germany, and if Hitler had won the Battle of the Atlantic and cut off trade routes completely, Britain would have been on it's knees. Either way, most likely Britain would have ended up ( maybe fairly happily ) a puppet state in a highly unstable Fascist Empire, without much of a battle. In which case, Hitler would then have concentrated on fighting Stalin, and possibly even defeating him, before the Pacific War brought in the US.
So no Allies, no Siege of Leningrad, no Soviet Union, a Eurasia in civil war, no 1960's, no space-race, maybe even no atomic bomb, an Imperial Japan, a terrified Australia ( if it even still existed), and a very isolated Americas.
The implication are scary, which ever way you look at it!