Would Hitler have won World War II if he had left Russia alone?

[Xithras]

93. Not conjecture.

Just subtraction. Remove the British from WW2 history and the entire war changes. From the development of nuclear weapons (stopped largely due to British involvement), to the introduction of jet fighters (largely stopped due to heavy bombing campaigns launched from British soil), to Nazi posession of radar, the entire hsitory of WW2 turned on the fact that the British didn't fall.

BTW, the service ceiling of the B-29 was 32,000 feet. The service ceiling of the ME-262 was 37,500. In an alternate WW2 timeline where Britain had fallen, the Nazi's would have been more than capable of intercepting and shooting down a B-29.

FWIW, most historians do believe that Operation Sea Lion would have failed. The original Nazi plans were to take river barges from the Rhine and float more than a half dozen divisions to the south coast with the Luftwaffe providing cover. The result would have been a German slaughter, as the Royal Navy would have ripped the barges apart. The Germans could have overcome that problem, but Hitler chose to turn east instead. If he had stayed focused on Britain, it's unlikely that the island could have held out.