World War 2.1

Thanks to an last-minute illness in the family Friedrich Zahn, Germany’s greatest statistician,born 1869 learns about Hollerith machines in 1933. As a result Germany is more computerized then in our timeline resulting in a successful blockade of Britain and Operation Sealion.
==Note==
Realistically neither could have happened.
Better statistical computers would not changed the lack of actually sea experience or the greater navy Britain had.
Britain had already done a study (in secret) that implied that if they very carefully rationed food they could do without imports."Could the Nazis have starved Britain into submission?" All the breaking of the U-boat blockade did was lessen the pressure to put such a plan into action.
Another logic issue is Thomas E. Dewey being president. His youth and his non-interventionist stance as things deteriorated in Europe was a major drawback in nomination for the 1940 election (it went to Wendell Willkie). Now he did get the 1944 nomination but his 45.9% verses Roosevelt's 53.4% didn't translate to the Electoral College where Roosevelt won 432 to 99.
In OTL Friedrich Zahn died February 1, 1946, an honorary citizen of Wundsiedel.Aly, Gotz (2017) The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich Temple University Press Despite holding numerous high-ranking positions under the Barvarian king, Weimar Republic, and Nazi German (as part of the SS) he is little more then a footnote in history.
==References==
* GURPS WWII: Weird War II pg 137
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