according to who you read, he wasn't ..at least not to Britain. We had a huge navy and if we had let him have a free hand in Europe then he'd have let us keep our Empire....the Battle of Britain wasn't a real battle at all - the Germans had no intention of invading England, not that they had the means..it was just an exercise in keeping up the political pressure on Churchill and trying to swing public opinion behind the peace faction. ...it's easy to see where these revisionists are coming from. The same author responsible for the above (a well-known writer on Luftwaffe subjects) also writes that Poland was such a war-like & aggressive neighbour that both Germany and Stalin's Russia were forced to move against her...