Review of
Hitler’s Britain: What Hitler Had in Store for
Occupied Britain, DVD version
Five out of five stars
While this
video engages in a major “What if?” alternative history, very little
speculation is needed. Actual German documents are cited, but they are not
needed to discern how the Germans would have treated the British had they been
able to successfully invade the main British island.
All one must do
is look at how the Germans acted in the western countries of the Netherlands,
Belgium, France and Denmark. At first, the German soldiers behaved with utmost
politeness towards the population as they incrementally brought them into the service
of the Reich. Jews and other “undesirables” were identified, rounded up into
concentrated areas and then, when the time was considered appropriate, sent to
the extermination camps of Eastern Europe.
The conclusions
in the video are all plausible, because they happened in all other occupied countries.
The most disturbing possibility is that England was conquered, the Soviet Union
knocked out of the war, Germany develops a nuclear weapon with the means to
deliver it to the United States and therefore the world becomes truly divided.
The western
hemisphere of North and South America would have become the American hemisphere
of influence while Europe and some of Asia would be dominated by Germany. Japan
would have controlled all east Asia and the battles over more territory would
likely have taken place in Africa.
This is a very
good video, alternative history at its best. Plausible and likely if only a few
events had turned out differently. The Battle of Britain, the defeat of the
German Luftwaffe over England, was achieved by approximately 3,000 fighting men
in the RAF. Therefore, the events depicted in this video easily could have
happened.
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