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  Posted by MissAQ (U2408630) on Tuesday, 8th November 2005

  I think it's fairly important to note (and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ site appears to have failed to do so) that Hitler did NOT in fact want to invade Britain in the autumn of 1940 for several reasons, including the weather in the English channel (well, who can blame him?!) and the fact that he was more interested in Russia and the Red Army at the time. He was quoted, as early as July, as saying he did not want to invade Britain (can this be explained by the fact that Russians are Slavs and the British were for the most part fellow Aryans?), but Operation Sealion (which was incredibly impractical) and the 'romance' of the Battle of Britain seem to make everyone, apparently including the compiler of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ History site on the subject, forget that.
  
  I love complaining, don't you?

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  Posted by Dirk Marinus (U1648073) on Tuesday, 8th November 2005

  Although the German High Command had the plans and battle order for an invasion of Britain , Hitler would have been quite satisfied if Britain would have accepted that the German Reich would be the ruler of Europe.
  
  as far as hitler was concerned he would have assisted Britain in holding on to its overseas British possessions.

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  Posted by DL (U1683040) on Thursday, 10th November 2005

  Hi MissAQ,
  
  You have a lot of points there, the main one is the weird admiration Hitler had for Britain (or rather the British Empire). He had always consider the Empire a stabilising force in the world, and good for global trade, whereas the Soviets were both "slavs" therefore untermensch in Nazi racial theory, and communist therefore ideologically opposed to Nazism. The ultimate enemy in fact. And by rather odd diplomacy, and a strange twist of fate, by the end of 1939 he found himself in a non-aggression pact with Stalin, and at war with Britain. In effect, if Hitler's plans were to be believed, he was in the wrong war!
  
  Plans for the invasion were however drawn up, and a detailed plan for the occupation of the UK (so detailed as to include arrest lists, plans for deportation for forced labour in Germany, the internment of the Jews, concentration camps, Einsatzgruppen and all the other "delights" of Nazi rule) was written. It is safe to say that while the invasion was a physical impossibility, some parts of the Nazi war machine took their planning more seriously than others. The fact is that they simply did not have the shipping, landing craft, etc in place to invade in anything like sufficient force. Just looking at D-Day and the resources that had confirms this.
  
  Anything for a dig at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ site editors!!!
  DL

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