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Hitler could, if their hadnt been been the yugoslav coup hitler would have launched barbarossa a month earlier and captured moscow, but realistically he could never have occupied russia east of the urals, and an earlier barbarossa would just have prolonged the war by another year or so

i think operation sealion could have worked, if it had been better planned beforehand, and if it had been launched in july 1940 just after dunkirk before the royal navy and the army could have reorganised. But sealion was a long shot, but i dont think it should simply be dismissed as total asb, it could have suceeded, but only if launched in july

Hitler's fantasies were mad, and unfeasable, and i think if the nazis had have launched sealion in july 1940, britain come to a peace agreement in november 1940, barbarossa launched in april/may 1941, then hitler would have diminished in power, and figures like Bormann, Speer and Heydrich would have risen to prominance.

Hitler would be dead by the late 1950's - early 1960's and one of the above three would have suceeded him as fuhrer.