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Had Hitler not held up the drive and trapped and captured the BEF, would an invasion of England succeeded?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Had Hitler not held up the drive and trapped and captured the BEF, would an invasion of England succeeded?

I have to think the Germans would have been more likely to try it, at least. It would still have been a dicey operation but if they could have somehow established a bridgehead there would have been less resistance.

[Cheburashka]

Had Hitler not held up the drive and trapped and captured the BEF, would an invasion of England succeeded?

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The Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy were still intact, so Sealion was unlikely to succeed - the Germans would still have had insurmountable obstacles to putting boots on British soil. If they had succeeded in doing that and keeping a supply line open, in either case they probably would have been successful. The British Army left its heavy weapons on the coast of France when they evacuated at Dunkirk, the evacuated troops would not have been able to put up much resistance without them.

Of course I'm not addressing the issue of whether British will to resist Hitler would have survived the capture of the entire BEF.

Others may have different opinions.