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Originally Posted by desirableroasted
Well, yeah, but the original poster was asking "if you could do one thing with only a U boat"
About a gazillion things could have changed the war, but we are scratching our heads about the one guy in a U-boat question.
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There are very few things which realistically would have changed the total outcome of the war and history.
Well one Captain and one boat, no they would not have changed the war. We were also discussing things that could have changed the war. Operation Sea Lion successfully undertaken would have required a half dozen subs among other surface units mostly destroyers and the barges they were going to use for troop transports. Had the UK been invaded and knocked out of the war, that would have been a huge game changer. Not only changing the war but probably the outcome of war as well.
I don't think Germany would have declared war on the USA and I dont think the USA would have declared war on Germany. It is pretty likely that the memorandum of understanding between Germany and Japan would not have brought Germany in on their side.
Earlier nuclear weapons maybe another one, but would the United States have nuked Germany? Probably not as they were already beaten by the Soviets. If Germany had developed the bomb I can think they would only be able to deploy it against the British or the Russians, clearly they would have used it on the Soviets and or both the Soviets and English. They were fighting a defensive action after 1943 on the whole of the Eastern front and nukes would have made that even messier.
Without a doubt the Soviets would have nuked Germany though and I also think if Japan had developed a nuclear weapon they probably would have used it against the Americans if only to stop their advances on the mainland.