Theo Robertson This is a speculative documentary showing what would have happened if Nazi Germany was successful in invading the British Isles in 1940 . Alternative history literature is full of this " What if " which comes as no surprise because who knows how human history would have developed if Hitler had succeeded with Operation Sealion ? Real history is compelling whilst alternative history is intriguing . But - and it's a massive BUT - speculative fiction shouldn't be given the same respect as historical fact same as science and religion should be viewed as being compatible . On the surface HITLER'S Britain might be of some interest but if you have any knowledge of the second world war you'll be irritated by historical conjecture masquerading as fact and bits that are just plain wrong Early in the story we're told that the Nazis had a campaign of rape , murder and looting in Poland but treated the French with politeness and kindness . Well of course they did because Nazi Germany was unique in its ideology in that people were viewed due to their ethnic origin . Poles being Slavs were viewed as being " untermenschen " and unworthy of existence being in theory of Asiatic descent . Western Europeans were viewed by the Nazis as being pure bred Ayrans hence the mass genocide seen in Eastern Europe wasn't seen in the occupied countries of Western Europe. I also have to question what is meant by " politeness and kindness " not committing genocide doesn't automatically qualify something as being polite There's also a lot of " artistic license " used in Hitler having to conquer Britain . In reality the Nazis didn't have the seaborne logistics to conquer the island so you have to ignore this . What can't be ignored is that the documentary states " 4,000 panzers are landed " because there's no way the Wermacht had that amount of panzers in 1940 After the invasion Churchill is killed by a Luftwaffe raid and the Nazis install a puppet government where many individuals named in the Nazis " black book " are liquidated . Often in alternative history Oswald Mosley is head of this puppet state but to its credit HITLER'S Britain speculates that Lord Halifax would be installed . That said Britain had its own black book where people with Nazi sympathies - one of whom would be Mosley - were to be executed before the Nazis took control . I'm guessing that the producers didn't have knowledge of this black book ?There's also a ridiculous insert showing Ante Pavlic who described as " The puppet ruler of Yugoslavia " when he was in fact the puppet ruler of The Independent State Of Croatia As the time-line goes in to 1941 the dubious storytelling then starts collapsing as it tells how Operation Barbarossa is delayed due to the Nazis invading the Balkans and Greece . It suggests if the Nazis invaded the USSR in May they might have succeeded in conquering the country . But would they ? It was only a short delay . One of the enduring myths of the war is that because some forward German units were within sight of Moscow in the early winter of 1941 the Balkans campaign effectively caused a big enough delay in the Germans plan to make it to Moscow before winter set in . This remains a myth because the Germans didn't have the logistics to get enough men and equipment to the Soviet capital . It also ignores the certainty that the Soviets would have defended their capital with the same brutal intensity seen at Leningrad and Stalingrad Perhaps the most ridiculous aspect is that after winning the war is that the Nazis then embarked on an atomic program and rocket program . The problem with the former is that for decades a large proportion of the German scientific and engineering elite were Jewish and they'd left the country taking their expertise with them . There was some evidence the Nazis were trying to attain an atomic capacity but were a long way behind American research and hadn't got round to even the fundamental aspects . As for the latter why would they be setting up a rocket program ? In this alternative world they're not fighting a war anymore hence there'd be no V weapon program In short this is a very disappointing " What if " documentary . If you've got a knowledge of the second world war then you'll recognise that despite having to give the show some slack some of the " facts " aren't facts at all and are just plain wrong and will have you putting your foot through the TV . It's about as accurate as Mel Brooks THE PRODUCERS

Robert J. Maxwell It isn't one of those shabby, scratchy documentaries that wave the flag all over the place and terrify the viewers, the kind of product popular during the war.Actually, it's well researched and the material is presented systematically. Sure, it's a "What If" film. Another reviewer complained that it's not a documentary. Well, how could it be? Who has ever produced a documentary of things that never happened? Yet, the conjecture is kept to a minimum and existing Nazi documents are used in the construction of this awful scenario.One thing we're reminded of is that the Nazis did, in fact, occupy a part of Great Britain, namely the channel islands of Guernsey and Jersey, closer to France than to England. There was no resistance. The German troops simply walked in and took over. They were under strict orders to treat the population politely and fairly. (Violators would be executed.) They paid for their goods at the going exchange rates, until the goods more or less ran out.But if the Nazis had been able to invade and conquer England, the results would have been far different, according to plans laid out for the occupation. (The plans for the occupation were infinitely more thorough and logical than the plans for the invasion itself!)As in other conquered nations, the Germans would not simply have exterminated all those at the top and installed their own dictator. They didn't even plan to involve the English fascists. They had been courting the recently abdicated Edward VIII and would have installed him on the throne and had him urge national unity. You know, "Let's get the past behind us and work for the common good." The Royal Family itself would by this time have been evacuated to Canada.Once in power, the political situation would have followed a common channel. With German thoroughness, the occupation plan prepared by a general lists the names of individuals and groups that would, little by little, been quietly "removed" and sent away, never to be heard from again.Among the first to go would be those accused of homosexuality, like Noel Coward and Aldous Huxley. And good-bye avowed socialist Bertrand Russell, then at Oxford. The Freemasons and the Church of England were to be deprived of any political power -- or worse. The libraries would have had decadent books burned. The museums would have been looted and the work sent to the Fuhrermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz. Parallel to all of this, of course, would come the gradual identification, isolation, and extermination of the Jews.What difference would the Nazi conquest of Britain meant in the rest of the world? With Britain out of the way, there could have been no interference with the Axis occupation of the Balkans, which would mean that the invasion of the USSR could have begun in early spring as originally planned. The result would have been quick strikes in good weather and the likely collapse of the Soviet Union.There would have been no need for Hitler to declare war on the United States, which was busy with a war in the Pacific. But just in case his designers were working on a transatlatic bomber and a nuclear weapon. The making of an atomic bomb was in the hands of a physicist, Werner Heisenberg, who didn't proceed with it, for one reason or another, perhaps deliberately aborting the project. Still, Germany was far ahead of any other country in rocketry and the US could hardly have considered itself safe.The film spends too much time on the "auxiliaries," who were, in effect, trained as guerrilla fighters, but it observes accurately that they wouldn't have lasted long and that reprisals for their acts sabotage would have been terrible. The subject of collaboration is treated candidly. The film, as it now exists on DVD, is interrupted too often by the sign-on and sign-off logos -- an expanding circle of fire over a map of Britain with a swastika in the middle of it. And a few of the "reenactments" are overly extended.Those carps aside, it's not bad.

Syl This documentary is about what if Germany invaded Britain during World War II. It was a goal of the Nazis to overtake the world. This documentary describes the possibilities of the horrors that would happen to it's population. The Jews would be taken away after they are stripped of their businesses. They would be branded with yellow stars of David like all the others nations. They would placed in ghettos and sent to concentration camps in Eastern Europe where they would be killed. The Royal Family would evacuate to Canada. Churchill's secret army of Auxiliaries men and women would be more active and risk their lives to retake their country as the resistance. This documentary asks what would happen if Germany was successful. We must all stop and pause to thank that they weren't and never invaded Britain at all. The Britons knew Germany's horror in occupied Europe by those refugees.

gavsivan This documentary is actually the first part of a (two-part) miniseries entitled "Hitler's Britain." Part One gives a terrifyingly convincing picture of what might well have occurred if the Nazis had launched a successful invasion of Great Britain in 1940. It suggests that eminent appeasers, such as Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, would have collaborated with Hitler and that "enemies of the Reich" (Socialists, Freemasons, and of course Jews) would have been rounded up and shot or sent to the European death camps. Part Two visualizes the collapse of British military resistance within a few months of the invasion, the activating of Churchill's civilian underground fighters, and their ultimate destruction. That would have left Hitler free to perfect his long-range missiles and launch them in waves against the Soviet Union and the United States. Having lived through the World War 2 Blitz (in Liverpool), and knowing how the Nazis treated many millions of so-called "Untermenschen," I believe that these two documentaries provide a clear idea of what the British people's fate would have been under Nazi occupation.