Germany did not lose the Battle of Britain

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Germany lost the Battle of britain.
I can't see how you can argue otherwise.

Germany slunk away having lost, but was able to largely hide the fact for a number of reasons.

Understanding German indifference to the outcome is different to saying that they won it.



People prefer to discuss and research battles they won, or defeats that are seen as 'heroic' like Stalingrad. BoB was an embaressing defeat - they were expected to win, but didn't. Harder to come to terms with than an defeat by overwhelming odds.

It was 'somewhere else' not a war at home, like the air defense of the Reich.
No impact on the people, so of little concern.

No ground troops were involved so no reports of ground battles lost that would equate to obvious defeat. Defeat of an arial campaign not being really understood by the public at that point.

Events of greater importance soon overshadowed it (Russia and the defense of the reich) making it of less emotive power to the Germans.

So it was an embaressment the Germans wanted to forget, and one that affected few in Germany itself making it easy to gloss over, and given later events marginalise to further push it from their minds.

History may be written by the winners, but the loosers have a habit of glossing over the embarassing bits in their books.


It's big in Britain because we won.
It's big in the scheme of the war because it stopped the Nazi juggernaut.
It may be overshadowed in numbers by later battles, but was still a significant victory.