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Originally Posted by Emperor
Cut them some slack. They'd left all their heavy stuff on the mainland and the Germans had pretty good control of the air.
I think the idea that Crete was sold out to protect the Enigma secret is a bit far-fetched. The Royal Navy tore itself up repelling the German transports and later evacuating the British survivors from the island.
I agree the situation in the Balkans and the air war in southeastern Europe would have been more interesting. If Turkey comes in on the Allied side sooner, then the airbases are even closer to the oil fields.
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If 45,000 troops on Crete with rifles or hand guns took out one German each then there would be no need to evacuate, Crete holds, no the British general staff on the island paniced and fled. I will never cut anyone slack if they out number their opponent three to one and still with weapons and still capitulate. Imagine they stood fast and wiped out those 15,000, i bet Hitler would not even try to attack Crete again, it was after this that Hitler forbade the deployment of the Fallschirmjeager ever again.