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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.
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