Wish I could have been there protesting the protesters. I would have had a sign that said, “American here.....I see how appreciative you are for our role in ensuring you’re not Germans today. Next time, you’re on your own”
Germans today
I do not understand the owner of the company I work for (30 years) prefers British over Americans.....oh they attack America every chance they get.
I have American flag in my cubicle and was questioned why, I said I am a Patriot!
Walked around here July 3rd giving a middle finger to USA.
I say under my breath, you could be speaking German now I will thank our Veterans for you....(my Father in Law served in China during WWII)......!!!!!
Germany would NEVER have invaded England. Yes operation sea lion was a plan, but Hitler not his generals abandoned it because even a crazed Hitler saw that invading England was a horrible idea.
Hitler actually wanted peace with England ! He hoped that Churchill would be happy to rule the seas and Hitler the land. All in all in a differwent time line where America stayed out and didn't enact land lease Germany would have had a much easier time with Russia. In turn the battle of britain might still have been lost but another campaign might have started and after a long war of attrition England would eventually be forced to a cease fire of sorts. No they'd never surrender to Germany and form a kinda vichy England, like what happened to France. But an end to hostilities would be inevitable.
This is not to say that the American role was not critical - it was -- but one cannot boil down VE just to one state