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The answer to the initial question is no, the Home Guard would not have stood a chance. I think that most of you are forgetting one thing that I am sure Adolf Hitler and probably most of his cronies had not – ‘The British Spirit’. Hitler would have been aware that he was not facing just the Home Guard he would have been facing the British People as a whole whose primary object would have been to defend their homeland at whatever cost. There was no Vichy France element in Britain; some of our Southern Landed Gentry may have been prepared to open their doors to these uninvited trespassers but not the general population. I personally believe that he would have got no further than London.

Bearing in mind that the primary target would have been London the resistance, I am sure, would have been sufficient to delay his progress and during this time the Northern Counties would not have been just sitting waiting for him to arrive and I am sure the British Government had plans to defend London at least so what would have been waiting for him beyond London if he had been successful? Had he been successful he would then have had to pour troops into England to combat this resistance knowing full well that Russia was at his back door so he chickened out and we all know the rest.

Also, whatever your political persuasion, Winston Churchill was there – the right man at the right time.