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They spent the wealth of empire fighting a war and achieved what exactly? They would have been better off losing. Crazy when you think about it.



Just so everyone is clear, the Nazi plan for what to do with an occupied Britain was to enslave large parts of population, to completely erase Britain as a country, and they also considered mass deportations of the native population. "Better off losing" is not really supportable under any reading of the historical evidence.



They would have been better off losing. Crazy when you think about it.

Better if they had let the Nazis won and ruled the UK? WTF?


That was never going to happen. And the Nazis didn't exist in 1914.


Nah the Germans were militaristic arseholes in 1914 too.




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