The real question of WWII: what if the Germans, rather than waste all the money and good men on useless submarines which could only bring disaster on their nation, were spent on standard munitions instead for a winnable ground war.
And what if the Germans, after letting the British escape from Dunkirk, played nicey-nice. "Our brothers in England. We have no quarrel with you. Our peoples have been united in blood and enterprise for two hundred fifty years. Your obligation with Poland has been honorably fulfilled. We propose a peace between our great nations whilst we take care of those slimey Communists to the east.
England was thoroughly tired of war before WWII even started. They had lost an entire generation of young men in the first world war. Some of their leaders and military men may have hesitated, but the British people might have seized on such an offer with enthusiasm.
Result: end of war with Britain, but most importantly, with no submarines to wreck disaster on the German people, the US never enters the war. I say that scenario is the ONLY one that results in German victory, short of Germany never going to war in the first place.
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