Adolf Hitler on 'England as an Ally'

Irrelevant for the topic at hand.

If you can't make a sensible contribution to the topic at hand, which is Hitler's relationship with and perception of the British Empire as an ally, then you should take your pearls of wisdom elsewhere.

How much did the average Brit even know ?

My grandparents and great uncles provide a confused account of many aspects of the politics of this time. How many knew of Edward the 8th’s favourable impression of the Germans ? How many knew of his relationship with Simpson ?

Grandad remembered Halifax’s stance on appeasement and Chamberlain’s second speech (i have to say i have received no such undertaking) was the precursor to grandad's IFF being tested when a hurricane on patrol forgot to switch ut on and came within yards of being a blue on blue. Yes they had electronics in war years before the history you’re told

But i still wonder how much people really knew and how much of what they heard they really believed. To her dying day grandma thought fighter command’s pilots saw better in the dark thanks to carrots even though her own daughter’s husband’s father was one of those pivotal to the wartime radar the ministry of food used a carrrot glut to cover up and exploit.

I guess what i’m saying here is it really did not matter what hitler might have thought about this country, from the moment he failed to act as he ‘promised’ chamberlain he would, his card was marked and his course set.

That it ended in a bunker in Berlin and not on a throne room in a grand palace is testimony to his utter idiocy as a war strategist and that’s something those less blonde blue eyed and outright Aryan in appearance than i need to get on their knees and give thanks for.

The interesting question here is: What if?

What if Churchill had been deposed in May 1940 and the government had sued for peace? What would have happened if Hitler had been relieved the burden of a two-front war and was able to focus completely defeating the Soviet Union?

There's little evidence to suggest that Germany ever aspired to build a proper 'blue water' navy. Hitler's empire would have been a land-based one. In the 'Second Book' he states that Wilhelm II's greatest blunder was to build such a navy to rival Britain's, and he had no intention of repeating it.

An interesting scenario would have been if the Wehrmacht, having pushed the Red Army beyond the Urals, then started to appear in numbers along the borders of Iran and Afghanistan. How would Britain have reacted?

In the early 1940s the British Empire was still completely intact. Even India's dominion status would probably never have been promised (as it was in 1942) since peace with Germany would have meant that the wartime exigencies that led to that promise in the first place simply would not have existed.

There is no evidence I'm aware of that confirms the Third Reich had any territorial ambitions beyond Europe.

If you have some I'd like to see it.