On 23/05/2013 03:11, Simon Brown wrote:



cos we were importing half our food

Not during the war itself.

There would have been mass starvation if the U boats had stopped the
food and fuel.
Even with the imports it was hard and the rationing was getting worse.

There was also plenty of OIL based fuel, it was all being used for the
war effort. Its quite hard to run planes on coal.

The Nazis might have won if they had delayed the war by 6 months and
doubled the u boat fleet.