A thought occurs
What would have been the consequences of the Nazis Adlertag being successful and not cancelled? It was, by all accounts quiote a close thing.
So instead of June 1940 being the beginning of our stand alone it would be the beginning of life under the Nazis in the UK.
How many of the lefties posting on this Forum are the sons and grandsons, daughters and grandaughters of, 1940's lefties? In the above scenario there is a very good chance that those parents and grandparents would be treated exactl;y as the lefties in the Reich and the othetr Occupied Countrieds - death in a concentration camp.
There would be no Brirish Jews - dead in the Concentation Camp too.
Newspapemen and women, gays, the mentally ill, the physically deformed all murdered.
Twins sent for Dr Mengele to experiment on.
Can anyone see isolationist America of 1940 lifting a finger to help? I certainly can't; how many of their politicians, between 1939 and 1941, kept going on about "not getting dragged into another European war and having good ol' American boys killed for something that was not America's fight."
Oh they would fight in the Pacific from December 7, 1941 but what use would that be to Britain? None.
Why did this scenario not come to be? Because of all those men and women who stood up and said NOT ON MY WATCH! Men and women who fought, died, were wounded and mutilated, who endured the Blitz, who lost friends and family to defeat Hitler.
The people we remember with every poppy we buy, with every second of the two minutes silence.
Is that too much to do to thank these people whio ensured that we can have an argument over what the poppy stands for rather than being worked to death as slaves in a Nazi factory?
