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Originally Posted by Ifernat
I would agree that the U-boats couldn't by themselves have won the war,
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Militarily, no. But politically, they could have tipped things in the first months of the war.
When we recall that Churchill's appointment to PM, eight months after the war started, was by no means guaranteed, you could argue that if Uboats had been even more effective in Sep 39 - May 40, British morale and political vacillation might have tipped the PM post to Lord Halifax.
Another sinking of a capital ship, a la HMS Royal Oak, for example, might have been enough in those uncertain days.