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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
Was Churchill willing to make peace in 1941? After stopping any chance of a German invasion in the battle of Britain and then receiving American aid through lend lease there was no reason to think handing back territories while leaving puppet governments would have been enough for peace.
Maybe peace could have been negotiated in 1940 after the fall of France if Hilter withdrew troop with only minor territorial gains (Alsace and Lorraine) but that ignores western Poland which was the Casus belli and in no way was being granted independence.
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Assuming Hitler planned on making Peace there wouldn't have been a Battle of Britain, right from the beginning Hitler would have been sending out signals he wasn't a threat to the UK, which he kind of half arsed did anyway, he could and should have used the US to broker the peace with the UK, the US was not exactly commited to the war itself.
There was support for peace with Germany in the UK after the fall of France, it wouldn't have taken much from Germany to take the UK out despite Churchil