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Originally Posted by Freiwillige
I was always under the opinion that Germany's only naval hope was to build alot more U-boats early on. Doenitz had wanted and said he needed 300 to defeat England. When war with the west started he had a little over 50, With only 27 being capable of fighting in the Atlantic, Type VII's. The rest were the smaller type II's and training boats.
Now imagine if the Kreigsmarine had focused on building the U-boat fleet. England would have starved into submission and sued for peace. Then and only then could the Kreigsmarine focus on building the larger battlewagons needed to "Protect" Europe.
And Imagine if the entire Royal Navy after its surender was forced to scuttle itself in Keil the way they did to both German Navy's after both world wars.
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I agree, Doenitz had a brief window there in 1939-41 where the u-boats could have really shut the door on Britain if there had been enough of them. After the US came into the war it was only a matter of time before they were driven from the seas.
Even with Britain occupied by the Germans I doubt the RN would have surrendered. They would have sailed for Canada and continued to fight.