I often wonder what it would be like in the UK if Germany had won WW2.
When I was younger I used to think that there would still be German Stormtroopers running around the countryside in their grey uniforms, but I guess that would not be the case.
Any thoughts on the subject?
Ruthlessly efficient.
I don't think Germany, more particularly Hitler, could ever have won. What he wanted couldn't be had, it was a fantasy.
The Germany of today is a result of a complete rebuilding process minus the Nazis.
If they had one WW2, the world would be pretty grim with persecution of Jews, pretty much any non white, honosexuals, all disabilities, intellectuals, students, russians, slavics etc.
You think the Tories are bad...
There would be no repeats of Dad's Army.
I doubt we'd be here talking about it.
much the same as it is now - it was 60 going on 70 years ago.
We would all be driving round in Volkswagens, BMWs and Mercs instead of Humbers, Rovers and Austins.
We would all be driving round in Volkswagens, BMWs and Mercs instead of Humbers, Rovers and Austins.
No Goggomobils, Hanomags, Kleinschnittgers, Maicos, or NSUs then?
Much the same as now only with a considerably less diverse ethnic makeup, I suspect.
it would probably be a terrorist state as some of us would never tolerate rule by another state.
would just be an Arian nation 
there would be no comedy.
there would be more wheatbeer in pubs
There would be little crime as suspected criminals, and frankly anyone very poor or odd looking, would be secretly rounded up and shot and made into sausages and soap.
There would be lots of soap and sausages.
We would all be riding cube bikes,
There would be millions of flags and banners everywhere. The Nazis really went to town with them
Also, there wou be no hoodies and casual dress. Say what you like about the Nazis, they were always smartly turned out!
We'd have lost the Ashes 5-0 and now be preparing to face Strauss, Pietersen and Trott in the South African side...
Instead of all heading out mountain biking at the weekends, we'd all be meeting up and lying around the countryside half naked and participating in various homo erotic activities while some freak films it and puts it on Das YouTube.
So very little would be different for our 29er riding contingent.
there would be more wheatbeer in pubs
(Is suddenly worried that own love of Bavarian-style Wheaty Beer makes him a sympathiser of Nazi ideologies. Is even more concerned and confuddled by the fact that a very close Jewish friend also enjoys wheaty beer)
hmmm we would'nt be here? all executed by gas.
We'd all be watching Mr. Bean.
Sausage would be better too, although mustard wouldn't.
Buxom blond birds..............mmmm.
Big jugs of beer, giant sausages and 911's all round. Shame we won really.
Sorry, did you want a serious answer.
Actually when I went on a tour of the 1st WW sights in Belgium / France and stood there looking at 300,000 graves - I was shocked and couldent help wondering the same thing. I honestly wondered if either the first or second world war in Europe was worth that much loss of life.
I had driven there in my Lotus, and felt perhaps this many years later the only difference would be Id own a Porsche.
Its probably impossible to say as so much depends on tiny things. I came back and read a really good book on counterfactual history. Good for realising so much of our history and now current life is depended on mainly luck. Changes in the weather affect the outcome of wars. One verbal slip up can change an election. Then on the otherhand some things gain a momentum and small changes cant stop a tide - look at Egypt now for example.
You wouldn't have to put up with posts from me 
fatherland by Robert Harris ??
oh yeah we'd be in the euro and there would be more manufacturing, either that or we'd still be mining to power the german plants
I can speak German plus increase bureaucracy.
I will become a ruthless pen pusher.
I've heard it postulated that winning a war is bad for a country in the long term, as it breeds complacency and lazyness. Losing makes you take a hard look at yourself, reform and rebuild. Look at British vs German economies, manufacturing etc since WW2.
Nuclear war with Russia in the 50's so I dread to think. Germany today is a country that was at a point in it's history "very" different than it is today, but then what country isn't?
The answer is no one knows or can know. One can speculate but it means nothing in reality. There are obviously people who would like to think "oh well there wouldn't be this or that problem because the Nazi's would have sorted it". If they had been that "good" at their chosen task though would they have lost the war?
Why have I just bothered to type this and why am I posting? Well after that typing I may as well, I hate to see waste.
There would be no word for fluffy.
Ruthlessly efficient.
You've obviously never spent much time in Germany...
And 'winning' WW2 and invading the UK are really two different things.
Plus can I recommend 'Germany 1945 - From war to peace', of why they needed to be totally destroyed in WW2 rather than the 'ceasefire' of WW1.
lycras shorts would have been replaced by leiderhossen
Probably have got to more than world cup final 
We would have to communicate in code .......... but our spirit would never have been broken :
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there would be no comedy.
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