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Knowledgia , I am doubt that Hitler want to conquer Great Britain. Hitler goal is Russia !! One of the prove is Hitler`s order to stop tanks near Dunkirk. If German tanks continue there will be no British and French Army. What about Battle for Britain ? Hitler think with victory on the sky and bombing Coventry ( not London ! ) that Britain want peace. But he is wrong.
Then Chamberlain returned home victorious, waving his signed piece of paper in the air, declaring crisis to be averted, and the continuation of World Peace. And we built a statue of Chamberlain in his honor and every day on the 30th of September we celebrate Chamberlain Day
Chamberlain's excessively optimistic "Peace for our time" speech was September 30, 1938 --- before all this. Chamberlain resigned as PM on May 10, 1940 (replaced by Churchill) because of the Narvik failure --- before the Battle of Britain began. Chamberlain died of cancer on November 9th, 1940 --- after Sea Lion had been postponed indefinitely. It makes one wonder why the Brits would commemorate Chamberlain's being duped. Mind you, Brits celebrate Guy Fawkes.
UK: So your plan is to defeat the worlds most powerful navy in some of the roughest seas in the world. Germany: Yes. UK: And how many surface ships fo you have? Germany: 3 UK: okkkkkk and how many aircraft carriers? Germany: Dont need em. UK: Ok you have fun with that.
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@@Knowledgiaboth Hitler and winston churchill are belongs to same category...both are equally curse for world...what they had done no one will forgive... Hitler given Holocaust while winston churchill had given Bengal famine,odisha and bang...once he told "Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air and water would be taxed in India." oo i had forgotten. today is our independence day...❤ from🇮🇳
HoI4 players and wehraboos explaining how Sea Lion could have been possible if Germany had build transport planes and paradrop into England after destroying the RAF...
No, not transport planes. But it was more possible than Barbarossa for example. It is a longer comment so you've been warned in advance. Two key obstacles were RAF and Royal Navy - I think we can all agree on that, and even the war games played in the 1970's testify to that. Both of those obstacles can in fact be countered in this specific situation by Luftwaffe - and it does not need some major "what if" change like many similar scenarios. The point of divergence is in the anti-shipping arm of the Luftwaffe. Developing and producing the anti-shipping ordinance for planes (torpedoes and anti-armor bombs) are not expensive or beyond the German capabilities. And Luftwaffe showed that, in those rare occasions that it was tasked with anti-shipping duties (Black Sea and North Sea), was quite successful even with the very basic of investments. Royal Navy was scattered, and Home Fleet, while alone larger than the entire Kriegsmarine, kept its strongest assets way beyond the reach of the ground based German aircraft SPECIFICALLY for that reason. British were not dumb. That is why all heavy ships were in the northern ports while near the channel there were fleets of destroyers and light cruisers. Either way, a decent anti-shipping campaign in the Luftwaffe counters that. Germany had dive bombers (arguably the best dive bomber air arm in the first half of the war) for smaller and faster ships... but didn't have adequate bombs for them. It had medium bombers that could target larger ships... but it didn't have enough torpedoes for them. It is quite acceptable to lose 10-20 bomber like that to knock out a larger ship that cannot be replaced that fast. For instance, in the war game that was played in 1970's, Luftwaffe was locked to terror bombing cities. So the invasion, while initially successful, was not able to resupply as the RN then moved into the channel. So, you want Sea Lion to have a shot, you need to alter slightly the priorities of your air-force and navy. Instead of investing in new ships and a fleet of subs (that are all expensive and take time) you task the Naval ordinance division to design and produce anti-shipping ordinance that can be mounted on planes. You do not simply switch "military factories" from one type of production to something entirely different, no - Naval ordinance arm was ALREADY making what I am talking about - you just need more of it instead of other things they also made at the same time. They COULD do it, it was just not given the priority. And while it by no means completely negates the RN supremacy, it checks it. Because you have a very narrow strip of water (that can even be targeted by land-based artillery units), you don't have a large navy but you have an unsinkable aircraft carrier - the primary naval weapon of that war. The one problem I have not talked about is the RAF. In reality, contrary to the myth, it was not "at its last legs" and Germany "could not simply continue bombing its fields for a few more weeks" - wehraboos are completely nuts. At that time, UK was actually OUTPRODUCING Germany when it came to aircraft PLUS they were loosing less of them as the Battle of Britain was fought over their mainland. And while the RN is often mentioned as the bigger problem, it was not as big as RAF. Maybe if by some miracle they forced RAF to engage over the "neutral territory" like the channel, or that it simply kept toe-to-toe with them not seeking to destroy RAF but just negate the air superiority (which was within the capabilities of Luftwaffe for a period of a few months - which is what was needed), maybe there is a small chance that the invasion could be successful. In summary, in the best case scenario, you'd have 1:1 in air, navies practically locked (in any other place than the narrow channel, Germans would have absolutely zero chance to do ANYTHING - let me state the obvious) and the outcome of the invasion resting on the amount of divisions that Germans can move across and keep the momentum before the British suffocate them with the mobilized reserves. But a successful Sea Lion like that (even with things mentioned it is a dice throw), you can forget about Barbarossa next year. A successful Sea Lion means the death of Germany earlier in fact. Germans would get one very populous country to occupy which would be a further drain on resources that Germany was not so rich on, little to no gain as, down the line, the British Empire continues the struggle from other regions of the empire and the Allies just find another staging ground, be it Azores or some place in Africa and just take more time. It just means that the Iron Curtain in 1945-46 is on the European Atlantic coast and not in the middle of Germany. But could Sea Lion succeed? There is a small chance with some limited changes to the weapon production priority. But even if it is a victory, it would be a perfect example of a Pyrrhic victory that would even hasten the German collapse.
I guess you can say it was Chiang Kai-Shek's Northern Expedition. They regarded it as the KMT's Northern Expedition that unified China under the KMT coalition.
Sea lion had no chance of working. Germany just didn’t have the naval power and logistics for an opposed beach landing, not least one fighting against the worlds most powerful navy. You only have to look how difficult it was for the allies landing in Sicily and Normandy to see how difficult it was.
Absolutely correct. The British found out how hard a beach landing could be, first at Gallipoli, then at Dieppe. One of the biggest limiting factors for both the Italian and Normandy invasions was the shortage of suitable landing craft. Several invasion plans were postponed or cancelled due to an landing craft shortage. Germany had no purpose designed craft, only modified river barges, as well as virtually no experience at all in that kind of operation.
I’ve always thought that sea lion was never a serious proposition. There is no doubt that German land forces were far superior to British land forces, but Germany hadn’t a hope against the mighty Royal Navy, so there was literally no way to get those land forces across the channel.
@@davidpryle3935 yes they were but British is not weak they were also superior army . But the problem is since British empire was global empire their army was scattered around the world and they were very far from Europe
@@rome316ae3 I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree with you there. No European army could match the Wehrmacht in 1940. That’s why the British army (correctly in my opinion) had to run for their lives at Dunkirk. It wasn’t until the Wehrmacht overextended themselves in the vastness of the Soviet Union that they came unstuck. I can’t really comment on the British army that surrendered to the Japanese at Singapore as I’m not really well read on WW2 in the Far East.
To quote Shakespeare (Richard II): "This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands." Thank God for the English Channel and the North Sea. 🙂
Note that the German Navy didn't have a operational aircraft carrier because Goreing ( head if the Luftwaffe) was reluctant to allow his " empire" to be shared with other forces- meaning all German Aircraft is the property of the Luftwaffe!
@@walboyfredo6025 ok, good point But do u believe that germany would have got the time to build one fully capable of fighting in the world war ? And if so , it would only be wasting more fuel, so essential for germany.
Oh the Graf Zeppelin (did I spell that right?) Would be a juicy target and excellent hotel for Germans sailors since it'll never set sail. The thing carried a decent amount of planes, but could only launch around 10 with its catapult before it had to recharge. For twenty minutes. That Carrier would be next to useless.
@@youraveragescotsman7119 As said "Germany didn't have an Operational Aircraft carrier" l believe there's was also the "Peter Strauss" ( pardon spelling) along with the "Graf Zepplien". As pointed out before Hermen Goering didn't like the idea of German Aircraft issued to the Navy to which he reffered German Aircraft as his own "emprie". I am aware that the Battleships "Bismarck" and "Triptiz" had bi-winged patrol aircraft ( which was crane lifted off/on the water surface next to the vessel) and some U-boat had one man Gyrocopter (that was cable attached to the U-boat and had ceiling altitude of 200 feet). In both cases these aircraft were for observation / surveyor purposes rather then strategic/ front line operational. This was promised to Goering.
D-Day, where the Allies had complete Air and Naval supremacy and the axis were getting their asses kicked by the Soviets, was still considered a very risky operation and proper German response could have caused a disaster. For Sealion they dont have any of those advantages and would be facing the might of the british empire on their own homeland. Yea, good luck with that.
Getting to Britain and establishing supply routes would be impossible, however if that could be somehow accomplished then the country would be overrun very easily. Churchill had sent the bulk of his troops over to Northern Africa.
@@F1pidis Suggest you do some research. There was ample equipment and troops to defend British soil. The Home Guard had just taken delivery of over half a million rifles, sub machine guns and machine guns from Canada and the US. 300 75mm artillery pieces were also delivered. British factories were churning out armour/artillery/mortars/fighter planes. There was a Canadian division based in the South of England, an Australian division, and an NZ brigade. There were about 20,000 Poles stationed in Scotland - would not have taken long to re-deploy them to the south. Britain have approx 20 divisions spread out across the British Isles. Some of those were not fully manned or fully equipped. They would not need to be - if they could only turn up with a rifle and a hundreds rounds per man they could all, eventually be transported south, fired off their rounds in the general direction of any German force (even if they had managed to get all 90,000 of their troops ashore in the planned places) then gone home for dinner and come back the next day - No German forces would have survived the week. Now add to that the many thousands of Home Guard who could have been deployed (many of whom would have been living in the twons and the villages the Germans landed in) many of those were ex WW1 veterans and were looking forward to the chance of ventilating a German or two. British air support taking off from dozens of airfields close by having almost free skies over the target areas and I think you will find the Germans - within about five days would either be dead/wounded/so tired and hungry and out of ammo, fuel,medical supplies they would have been happy to surrender - no matter how fanatical they were. Now please try show anybody who knows anything about humans/warfare/logistics how the Germans would, "Overrun" even the south east corner of England let alone the whole of Britain with the maximum of 90,000 troops they could land (Now factor in how many of those would never have made it onto a beach or a dropping zone alive and the amount of equipment that would have been sunk or destroyed so would no longer be available to the German supermen who survived that to face what I have just outlined above. Then go and work out the possible scenarios for yourself. Do the research - it might prevent you sounding just a little foolish.
Had the Germans not invaded Russia and suffered cataclysmic, mind boggling losses, it is likely D Day would've been impossible. Russia would've been highly unlikely to enter the war to save the Allies and Britain likely would've been forced to negotiate a settlement. But the beautiful flaw with every imperialist dictator since the dawn of time is that they never quit when they're ahead.
13:16 you left out the part where British naval captains repeatedly asked the French captians to join them and fight against the Germans. It was only after it became clear the French were collaborating that the British sunk the French fleet.
You make it sound like the French fleet would have joined the Axis but for the action at Mers el Kebir. The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon by their own crews in 1942 to prevent the Germans seizing them is proof that this almost certainly wouldn't have happened. There's a lot of room for debate about whether the British could afford to take this chance, but in the context of this video what your suggesting would be an unnecessary addition, and quite a misleading one.
@@sam1111979 I'm not implying the French would have joined the Axis powers, I'm saying they would have either joined or handed over their ships as they were already collaborating. Either choice would have been bad for us at the time so our leaders made an offer. Join us and fight, hand over your ships to us and we'll use them, sail to the West Indies or USA and leave the ships there until the end of the war. The French refused all options so the only remaining outcome was that they planned to give them to the Germans. True they scuttled their ships in 1942 but by then the USA had entered the war. The tide was turning both on the Russian and Western fronts. Rommel was also being kicked out of North Africa. The French could see the inevitable and as usual they were playing both sides.
@@davidpryle3935 Yes there was. There were constant raids carried out on the western front all through 1942. You're acting like St Nazaire and Dieppe never happened. And before you say raids don't count then I guess the viking age never happened.
@@torinjones3221 There was no western front in 1942. Have you not read your history. Stalin was constantly badgering the western allies to open a western front to relieve the pressure on the red army in the east. They did not manage to do it until June 1944, by which time the red army was steaming towards Germany. A couple of raids does not constitute a front. The western allies air war against Germany was much more important.
It was a pretty stupid idea really. It took the allies years to get the men, resources, ships, armour and specialised landing craft together to even attempt the Normandy landings. It was a smart move to call it off, lest it turn into a reverse Dunkirk but with no escape.
The British did request the French to surrender. They declined and had to be destroyed. I blame the French leaders for the men's deaths. We could not let the ships go to the Nazis.
It was unnecessary to attack former allies. The French assured the British that if Germany ever tried to seize their ships, they would scuttle them first. And when the Nazis tried to seize the other Vichy French fleet at Toulon, the French did exactly that, they scuttled them before the Germans could get them. I'm of the opinion that attacking the French at Mers-el-Kebir was a mistake.
@@ennui9745You can promise all you want but it doesn't mean the French would be able to keep to it. At the end of the day if the French fleet did fall into German hands it would be a direct threat to Britain and risked it's very survival. It was a risk which could not be taken.
It did happen. I know of eyewitness accounts of German soldiers being treated for severe burns and near drowning in France. The RAF dropped oil on the channel water, and when the first ships were in position, bombed the oil to set it alight.
@@anthonyeaton5153 I would have thought that the German navy with Bismarck Tripitz Scharnhorst Garf Spee etc would have been a problem. But then both airforces would have been bombing both navies. Don’t you just love history.
@@papapabs175 they would have been of not much use for protecting and landings. Also the RN had battleships. The crux of the proposed landings actually crossing the North Sea and E Channel. Useless and hoc L craft etc
@@brianlong2334 This is why I love history, there is always someone who knows a lot more that I do. German MFP’s 🤔 something knew to learn everyday. Thanks Bri.
Glosses over the disparity in naval forces. In 1935 Germany began building two battleships (Scharnhorst and Gniesenau, really just weak battlecruisers). Britain had 12 battleships (old), 3 battlecruisers (old), and five aircraft carriers with another being built. In 1936 Germany began building Bismarck, Tirpitz and Graf Zeppelin. In response, Britain began building five new battleships and four new aircraft carriers. And much of the German strength was damaged or lost off Norway (with the Royal Navy down one aircraft carrier and a few destroyers). So if the mighty Kriegsmarine could send out its full available surface strength for the invasion of Britain, this would be 3 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 8 destroyers and several dozen torpedo boats. In the summer of 1940, with demands elsewhere, naval defenses for the British Isles were reduced to 5 battleships, 11 cruisers, 73 destroyers and several hundred smaller craft of varying size. But as the Luftwaffe campaign intensified, this force was increased. Essentially, Germany could send out any ship it wanted sunk.
@@binns5302 Key word is "was". The RAF consistently shot down more German planes than they lost, but RAF fighter losses were greater than German losses. This was made up by the pilots of about half of the RAF planes shot down surviving and returning to duty. Most pilots shot down over the Channel didn't survive, and Germans shot down over Britain who did survive ended up in prison camps so Luftwaffe losses were heavier. The RAF consistently thought the Luftwaffe was growing in size (an impression fueled by the Luftwaffe increasing the number of sorties per day to 3 or 4, and sending out forces in concentrated attacks on the RAF in the later stages of the battle). In August-September the rate of plane losses increased as this battle of attrition heated up. This phase of the assault was on the German assumption that Britain was producing up to 400 planes a month comparable to German production) and that if this could be disrupted the Luftwaffe could gain superiority. Problem is that Britain was producing about 300 planes a week and their greater problem was finding pilots as they were only graduating 200 new pilots a week and had up to 40% of their pilots involved in training as either instructors or qualified pilots enrolled in advanced training programs (I picture them sending pilots off to a WW2 equivalent of Top Gun). The RAF thought they were approaching the breaking point when they had to send their pilots up 2 or 3 times a day. Surplus planes were transferred to the Polish and Czech air forces in exile and they were brought into the battle for the later stages. But look up "Channel Sickness" for the strain the Luftwaffe was under. (Officers in Nazi Germany faking illnesses so they could avoid being sent into battle). By the end of the battle, the RAF and allies had grown in strength while Luftwaffe fighter squadrons had been reduced to about 2/3 strength through loss of pilots, shortage of replacements, lack of new planes and shortages of parts to maintain and repair those they had. Bomber squadrons were doing even worse. It wasn't just some dumb decision when the Luftwaffe stopped daylight attacks and shifted to night bombing of cities. They were under greater strain and were approaching the breaking point faster than the RAF.
@Jordan Berry If Germany won, they would most probably make German a compulsory subject from first grade in all of Europe so that German would become the lingua franca in Europe over time, but they wouldn't have been able to force a nation to abandon their traditional language. So yes, you would speak German but as a second language.
the Germans actually didn't attack radar. they had conducted a study earlier which indicated the British did not have it. therefore, they left all the towers alone and this allowed the British to mobilize a better defense.
@@gw7624 The Germans, Japanese, British and USA had radar, and Germany did attack Chain Home radar installations and British airfields early in the Battle of Britian. The Germans stopped after a few British bombers attacked Berlin doing zero damage so Hitler the supposed "genius" attacked London. Germany lost the Battle of Britian b/c an amateur named Adolph thought he was a GENIUS.
This is an excellent overview... the reality is that Germany’s mauling by the Royal Navy in the Norwegian fiords made a successful invasion impossible.
"How did Germany plan to invade Britain?" I always half jokingly answer with, "they didn't" Because I still swear when sea lion was planned they totally forgot the Royal Navy exists. And they also forgot the Kriegsmarine was operation on a shoestring budget at the best of times.
No, there was definitely a plan. The German Navy and German Army planned to abandon the operation, and then blame the German Air Force for not establishing air supremacy. It was a good plan. It worked.
@@valeriejames4675 I'm also only being slightly flippant. The Sealion planning meeting of 7 August 1940 between General Halder and Admiral Schneiwind went as follows. The Navy goes, 'We can get most of 6 divisions across the narrowest bit of the channel over two weeks'. Army replies "I utterly reject the Navy's proposal; from the point of view of the Army I regard their proposal as complete suicide. I might just as well put the troops that have been landed straight through the sausage machine:. ", and demanded a 'broad front' landing right across southern England. Navy goes "that it must regard the broad front not only as suicidal, but as a sacrifice of the troops on their way to land". That was when they agreed the Air Force needed to do the impossible first ...
@@ianwhitchurch864 Ahh yes, the brilliant plan to once and for all eliminate the RAF, it's fighter command and their invaluable radar stations, by ... *checks note* bombing the London suburbs.
@@valeriejames4675 Dowding knew Fighter Command didn't have to *win* the Battle of Britain, it just needed to still be there until Autumn storms stopped the channel being able to support a German invasion, right ? Because if Fighter Command still has a couple of hundred Hurricanes and Spitfires, they can provide enough air defense for the Navy to still be floating and thus trash any invasion. So. The Luftwaffe *has to* bring Fighter Command to a decisive battle. Bombing radar just means Fighter Command flies around pointlessly, as it can't find the fights to get shot down in, and so it's still there and Sealion fails. Therefore, hit the target they have to fly up to defend - London. And it sort of worked, except the British aircraft industry and RAF training schools were better than the Luftwaffe expected, so it was a case of 'here they come again, the last hundred Spitfires'.
13:36 Perhaps a few French soldiers were killed in the British attack on Mers-el-Kebir, but the vast majority of the French personnel killed were SAILORS, not soldiers.
03:45 on this particular point the germans were absolutlely right considering the fact that, after the fall of France, the british decided to sink almost the entire french navy fleet, which would had given to the germans a power over the sea similar to the english fleet. This factor was decisive on this campaign.
Great Britain pleaded with the French to either hand over their Navy or at least sail it to British Ports. The French refused, they were given a deadline and could have evacuated their Sailors......there was no decision to be made......the French Fleet simply could not be allowed to fall into German hands ! 🤷♀️
Thanks for clearing that up mate. Crystal balls have always been in short supply during my time on the planet. Seems others have been more fortunate. We also have to remember Churchill broke down in tears when he received the report but felt the French had lef him no option and he had to show the US he had the ruthless streak necessary to withstand what was coming and was worth supporting.
Funny fact the plans were very well executed, even persons for overtaking government functions in the UK were schooled and their names are listed in plans for the occupied regions.
Churchill wasn't knighted until 1955 shortly after he resigned as PM. The Queen offered him Duke of London but he declined and instead the title was given to his son after he passed away in 1965.
Case SeeLowe, named after a Berlin park, required air supremacy by the Luftwaffe, amphibious ability by the Kriegsmarine to land 250,000 troops(greatly reduced later), etc., neither of which was achieved. They planned to land troops on a wide front and then extend a ring inland, then one about London. The broad front and 1/4 million troops were greatly reduced by the navy, who had not recovered from the costly Norwegian sea battle. With the defeat in the Battle of Britain, facing the Home Fleet(UK) and a recovering RAF, even Hitler had to concede SeeLowe was impractical. His heart was never in it anyway; Russia beckoned...
The RAF were not "Recovering".....The RAF actually had more Pilots and Fighters at the end of the BoB than they had at the beginning. The RAF was growing even stronger 😃👍
Well, I think you all should gives British spies in Germany more credits. They convince Hitler with operation Barbossa as his top priority instead of operation Sealion, so GBR would had more times to assamble their allies.
There's a lot to be said for the theory that Hitler only promoted the development of Operation Sealion as a feint to distract Stalin because he knew his next target had to be Russia. He needed Soviet oil and soil to secure his Reich. To that extent Sealion worked as the invasion of Russia was achieved with surprise and speed (as in France, initially). I think Hitler preferred the idea of preserving Britain as some kind of subservient partner as he liked the way its Saxon(ish) people lorded-it over Empire natives. Had it not been for Churchill and the will of ordinary people it's quite possible that Britain could have come succumbed to a shoddy accommodation with him.
One man stepping up prevented it and just as importantly his prevention of another man (Halifax - who would have accommodated Hitler at any cost) stepping up.
Tl;dr. Wermacht had no opportunity to invade the United Kingdom, and the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of England were to force the British to sign the surrender.
@@dzonnyblue3065 I’m not wrong though. The Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 was the last proper Viking invasion and they got annihilated and never properly came back. Unfortunately for King Harold, the Victor of that battle, William the Conqueror invaded straight after it.
The fact that Germany didn’t have the amphibious lift capability Sea Lion is a mute point. Same thing with Taiwan. Yeah you can drop airborne units but without a large amphibious capability you’re pissing away assets.
The British fought the Battle Of Britain under the pretence that the Nazi’s were determined to launch a cross channel invasion. And for decades after this storyline seemed plausible. However, it’s commonly understood today that Germany had neither the means nor the equipment to carry out an invasion. Everything they assembled in the French ports was intended to give the British the assumption that an invasion was coming, but what was brought out was unsuitable to carry 300,000 troops across the channel. Hilter’s ultimate goal and this is recorded history was to bring the RAF to the brink of extinction, then pull back and force the British to a negotiated peace. He was already planning an invasion of the Soviet Union and didn’t want a two front war. However, the English continue to this day to perpetuate the invasion myth in order to add substance the RAF victory.
Nothing of the sort is 'commonly understood today.' Were you to read 'Invasion of England - 1940' by Peter Schenk, you would have access to full details of the German invasion plan, which was very real indeed. By mid September, 1940, the Kriegsmarine had assembled 159 coasters, 1859 converted river barges, 397 tugs/trawlers, and almost 1200 motor boats in French & Belgian. The plan involved a first wave of nine divisions, supported by a weak airborne division in the first wave, with a further nine divisions in the second wave, and six divisions in the third wave. The initial assault force involved just over 60,000 men, carried in 894 barges (towed in pairs by 57 transports and 390 tugs) and 300 motor boats. The first wave, in entirety, involved just over 150,000 men. 'Hitler’s ultimate goal and this is recorded history was to bring the RAF to the brink of extinction, then pull back and force the British to a negotiated peace.' You claim that this is 'recorded history?' Where is it 'recorded?' Certainly, the invasion plan presupposed the Luftwaffe having air superiority over the Channel, but bringing the RAF to the brink of extinction was never possible. The worst that could have happened would have been a temporary withdrawal of Fighter Command north of the Thames to rest & re-equip. At the time the British were already outproducing Germany in terms of aircraft, especially fighters. I would agree that the importance of the Battle of Britain was and is exaggerated, largely because of Churchill's speeches at the time, intended to garner support in the United States. Churchill could have said, truthfully, that 'An invasion is not possible. The German fleet is tiny, and Britain has the largest navy on earth,' but the David versus Goliath image was more effective, and, inaccurately, is the image many people have today. The reality, of course, was that the Royal Navy held absolute supremacy in the Channel, and any attempt to invade with the resources at Germany's disposal had no hope of success, but to suggest that no such plan ever existed is simply not in accordance with either the facts or the historical record.
Really! What matters is that the RAF grew in strength faster than the Luftwaffe and would have prevailed anyway. This notion of Georing as a real threat is false.
@user-wj6dt5bq3w The British never claimed any invincibility, only that any possibility of invasion of invasion had been prevented. Please don't quote from a source as tainted as Hesse, as it hardly reflects credit upon you.
In regards to people that think the Luftwaffe could ever bomb the RN into the ground in 1940, no. They did not possess any Anti-Shipping training at all until early '41 and no torpedo planes until '42. They also did not possess a bomb capable of penetrating the armoured decks of British Battleships and Heavy Cruisers, as seen with the largest vessel the Luftwaffe ever sunk, that belonged to the British, being a Light Cruiser.
I though a British carrier was sunk, was it a mine or torpedo in the Norwegian campaign? But even then the Germans lost 37 military ships to the British 11.
Before spouting British propaganda, I suggest reading "Kustenflieger" by Adam Thompson, "The History of Dive Bombing" by Peter Smith and "Invasion 1940" by Peter Schenk (or its new edition)
@@christopherwebber3804 And the Luftwaffe, with no Anti-Shipping training, is supposed to stop Heavy Cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships? Dive-bombing is nice, yes, but you can't, accurately, hit a ship moving at full-speed all the time. There is an account of a Stuka pilot dropping his bomb on a Destroyer that was sitting still, but missing by 300 metres. If they tried to invade in 1940, the Germans would lose.
@@youraveragescotsman7119another book you obviously haven't read. "Naval Warfare in the English Channel 1939-1945 by Peter Smith. Luftwaffe pilots had antishipping training, they had their own equivalent of Coastal Command, which was originally allocated to the navy. They did have armour piercing bombs. They did sink british destroyers, which by the way had a gun director that could only deal with aircraft in level flight. You missed another bit of propaganda- German aircraft didn't have rear gunners.
@@christopherwebber3804 They could sink Destroyers, yes, but they didn't have bombs capable of actually hurting British Heavy Cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships. Those are a lot scarier and more dangerous that a Destroyer. The largest RN vessel sink by the Germans was a Light Cruiser at Crete, which was when the Luftwaffe had actually been retrained to hit Ships more effectively. In 1940, the Luftwaffe did not have anywhere NEAR the required training to take on the Home Fleet and expect to win. They had no Torpedo Planes to handle heavier Ships until 1942, which by then invading the UK would be impossible. The Luftwaffe failed at Dunkirk to stop the evacuation against slow and stationary Destroyers. Good luck dealing with Ships moving at full speed across the Channel.
I’m not sure if the uk thought Germany might attack from another route but to this day you can still see substantial defences built on the east coast of Scotland. Thousands of concrete blocks at beaches still exist plus gun placements etc. Was an attack from Scandinavia or Holland possible maybe?
An attack was possible, but resupplying it wasnt. The RN thought East Anglia was the best place for the Germans to land - but then again they knew about things like the vicious tidal currents in the channel that land-lubbers handwave past.
And only then with a great deal of prior practice of Amphib warfare - and yet it still went wrong in places. Germany had a snowball in hell's chance of getting any meaningful organization onto terra firma. At that period in history your statement is absolutely correct.
@Kordell Swoffer many nations and millions of people paid the price. A lot of disinformation around, in particular, here. The point that I was making was that neither Germany had the capability to invade the UK (other than demoralise) nor UK had capability to fight Germany on land (in Europe), hence other than burning thousands of innocent German people to death, UK's role in WW2 is debatable.
Good use of Fraktur on the maps - and I didn't see any long-S errors because there were no medial S letters, but English Channel can't just be calqued as "Englisch-Kanal". It's normally called Ärmelkanal or, at the least, Englischer Kanal. Not Englisch-Kanal.
My question; everybody knows the strait is in Brittish hands, always been. Germany had The Netherlands, Denkmark and Norway. Why not go from the East or North? It may be a longer way, but the English may have also been delayed in seeing that coming. Or landing on Ireland maybe.
The Kreigsmarine was barely able to assemble an assault force capable of crossing the Channel. How would barges towed in pairs by tugs or barges ever hope to get to Ireland? Barges and large Atlantic rollers are incompatible.
Invading from the North (Scotland, I suppose?) is an excellent way to run right into the Home Fleet. They'd never get to Ireland. Too far, too close to Anti-Invasion forces. Oh and the barges would sink in the rough seas.
England does not and never has had either a navy or an airforce, any more than Texas does. England is just a region of Great Britain. It is the Royal Navy and Royal Airforce.
Whilst England hasn’t really been a proper country since the Acts of Union in 1707, the makeup of the United Kingdom’s Union is different to the United States’ Union. England is more of a country than Texas but you are right, the military is the whole of the UK’s, not just England’s.
@@welsh-cymru1588 The real picture is way way more complex than that. By the way, I'm half English half Welsh. And yeah, I sometimes wake up finding my left and right arms punching hell out of each other. Not. Please read some history rather than fantasy. It's not all Celts and Anglo-Saxons. However, I agree with you about that dumb-ass 'puppets' comment. I think he (it's usually a guy) was just trolling. Frankly, two things I could live without are (fervent) religion and nationalism (often a step away from racism). Neither have led to good things.
@@welsh-cymru1588 You are deluding yourself with nationistic blx n bs. We are a mongrel race (As are so many others should we have the will or the means to check back) and even those who may be able to trace back many centuries have no clue at to the origins of the first in their line to make it to this group of Islands. My own line in recorded history and thus proveable stretches to Scotland, Ireland, Wales (gt grand and grandad died in the poorhouse in Carfdiff) Cornish, Scandinavian and French - probably Norman. Half of our population has ancestry from who knows where. I've muddied the waters further by marrying a Sicilian with Jewish/Spanish/Greek and we think Albanian ancestery to add to her Italian line. Our daughter's partner is half Welsh - sort of squaring the circle there. Many more of your so called countrymen have English origins (English themselves being a further set of mongrels) through the sheer numbers moving there to find work in the coal/steel/docking industries. I've been recently to Cardiff in the last four weeks and the multi culturalism of the place is on a par with most other big cities in Europe. However if you want to go your own way get on with it.
The detail left out is that Hitler actually believed, ludicrously, that the Brits saw themselves as a Germanic Aryans and would have no problem being allied with his Reich. Guess he didn't take much history!
Yeah, it was a small private air force built by some Richard Branson type guy. It was finally disbanded because of the issue of the beards and oxygen masks. Also none of the cockpits had cup holders. The pilots all jumped ship.
Only way Germany can succeed is if the Japanese Navy came to the assistance of the Germans, the Japanese navy hold off the Royal Navy while the Germans focus on the landing and Invasion of GB.
It would have been an audacious attempt even if the won the battle of Britain but I doubt they would have succeeded. Firstly, the Royal Navy was then 10x the size of the Germans navy and even getting troops over with air superiority, our defences were set up and we were already prepared for any landings of the kind.
It really gets on my nerves whenever someone says that Germany could've won WW2 or they would've easily invaded Britain. A naval invasion would have seen total destruction at the hands of the Royal Navy and the RAF would have shot down any paratrooper aircraft. Plus Russia would have beaten Germany anyway
The Soviet Union itself stood little to no chance against the Germans and would've completely collapsed had it not been for the Lend Lease act which saw 180 billion US dollars (in today's worth), 14.000 aircraft, 15.000 tanks, 400.000 jeeps and other MVs, 1.750.000 tonnes of food and clothing delivered to them from 1942 to 1945. I imagine Britain got the same if not more amount of supplies. Germany stood no chance of total victory, all they could've done was actually accomplish their WW1 plan, beat France as fast and painless as possible, then turn to the USSR and destroy them before they get to full strength. Britain would never surrender because they knew they had the support of the US but in a hypothetical scenario where France and USSR both lost and capitulated within a year or two as the German plan suggested, wouldn't have been able to keep up the resistance without complete reliance on the US. Germany could only negotiate an armistice or peace talks with Britain through a position of power which they held for a really short time in reality.
Sure it would've been easier to beat Russia without lend lease but it would've taken a lot longer. The fall of Moscow wouldn't have done jack sh*t and the USSR is way too large to conquer through force
@@oliversherman2414 Yeah but remember that 95% of Russia behind Moscow is a frozen wasteland with scattered settlements every 150-200 miles. Germany had taken the "Lebensraum" they were after Russia; the wheat fields of Ukraine and Belarus and the ports of the Baltic sea even with Lend Lease in full effect. In a war where the Battle of Britain and Lend Lease with the Soviet Union never happen because the USA isn't officially in the Allies' side, Germany would have no problem taking the 3 symbolic Russian cities of Moscow, Leningrad (St.Petersburg) and Stalingrad (Volgograd). No need for them to reach the Pacific coast of the Soviet Union. Btw I'm no German sympathiser, I just thought of a "plausible" scenario where Germany could get the closest to what would be called a victory in WW2.
Even if Moscow and other industrial cities around it were captured Russia still wouldn't have surrendered. Don't forget we're talking about Joseph Stalin here (a murderous madman who doesn't hesitate to make large sacrifices). He would never have even considered surrender and would instead have sent every man, woman and child to die in his name. This is evident from the way the Red Army faught
@@oliversherman2414 Agreed, Stalin and the Red Army would fight to the end, but even a crazy bloodthirsty dictator would know when he is defeated (a mentally stable one at least). Without adequate manpower and equipment, major industrial cities to continue the war effort and the extremely valuable allied help which allowed the construction of factories behind the Ural mountains, even Stalin would know when he is defeated. But, history can't be (and thankfully for this one) changed.
The numbers support that Britain was not losing the Battle of Britain. Germany began the battle with a massive superiority in number of aircraft, and yet Britain held back 20% of their pilots for flight schools to train more pilots (while German flight schools were closed so the flight instructors could be sent into combat. Throughout the battle, the RAF overestimated the strength of the Luftwaffe and prepared for a long war. Throughout the battle, the Luftwaffe command underestimated the RAF imagining that the British were near breaking. But the Germans were taking heavy losses. They lost more planes than the RAF consistently, though as many of those were bombers they lost fewer fighters than the RAF did. But British aircraft production was about twice the rate of Germany's and Britain was buying combat aircraft from USA throughout 1940. And as combat was mostly over Britain, British pilots who bailed out of their planes could parachute to safety (about half survived) while Germans shot down would be killed or captured. By the time the massive campaign to break the RAF was underway, German squadrons were down to about 67% strength and were exhausting themselves flying multiple sorties a day with no days off to rest. The pressure was so intense that for the first time the British were losing planes faster than they could be replaced (something the Germans had been doing for some time) and grew worried. What was happening was the brutal war of attrition was speeding up. Both sides were losing planes faster than ever before. But because the German pilots were making multiple attacks per day it appeared that they were more numerous than they really were, so the British were concerned they were falling behind and losing. Fact is that the Luftwaffe couldn't have kept up that pressure for much longer. They were exhausting their pilots and their aircraft (with more and more grounded for lack of spare parts). Look up "channel sickness" for the effect the battle was having on German morale.
RAF! I hate it when some former colonials assume it is all about 'England'. If I were a billionaire I would love to put together the best baseball team in the world, ever, and ask the US if we could take place in the 'World Series' - oh yeah , we play our home games at Cardiff, Belfast, London, Edinburgh and Launceston in rotation.
The germans lost the battle of Britain because the British had radar and were better organised than the germans, not due to some miracle as some may believe.
That wasn't the *only* reason. The Germans vastly underestimated the British aircraft production rate, meaning lost aircraft were replaced far quicker than the Germans thought possible.
If this did happen I think it would be one of if not the deadliest battle of the war the British would fight to the last man and those that survived would probably evacuate to Canada which had a formidable navy and air force its self
LB you are wrong l am afraid. There was a large Royal Navy Base in Scotland called Scarpa Flow. The ships based there destroyed the German Imperial Navy in WW1 in the battle of Jutland. So with that in mind invading Scotland wouldn't be a good idea.
They would be out of range for fighter cover and they would isolated in rough terrain and no way to be supplied as the British would controll the air and the sea
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10:14 English Air force???????
Get real - it's the British Royal Airforce Ok!!!!
How did you get the map?
England has never had an air force and hasn’t fielded an army for more than 300 years🤦.
Knowledgia , I am doubt that Hitler want to conquer Great Britain. Hitler goal is Russia !! One of the prove is Hitler`s
order to stop tanks near Dunkirk. If German tanks continue there will be no British and French Army.
What about Battle for Britain ? Hitler think with victory on the sky and bombing Coventry ( not London ! ) that Britain
want peace. But he is wrong.
Then Chamberlain returned home victorious, waving his signed piece of paper in the air, declaring crisis to be averted, and the continuation of World Peace. And we built a statue of Chamberlain in his honor and every day on the 30th of September we celebrate Chamberlain Day
Nice reference to oversimplified
Hitler, Invade he rest of Chekoslovakia....
What???
Chamberlain's excessively optimistic "Peace for our time" speech was September 30, 1938 --- before all this.
Chamberlain resigned as PM on May 10, 1940 (replaced by Churchill) because of the Narvik failure --- before the Battle of Britain began.
Chamberlain died of cancer on November 9th, 1940 --- after Sea Lion had been postponed indefinitely.
It makes one wonder why the Brits would commemorate Chamberlain's being duped. Mind you, Brits celebrate Guy Fawkes.
@@bellumgerere Just an excuse to set off fireworks and have bonfires now, it’s not as if we say “happy Guy Fawkes day” haha
UK: So your plan is to defeat the worlds most powerful navy in some of the roughest seas in the world.
Germany: Yes.
UK: And how many surface ships fo you have?
Germany: 3
UK: okkkkkk and how many aircraft carriers?
Germany: Dont need em.
UK: Ok you have fun with that.
UK: oh and by the way have fun being shot at while trying to climb over the dozen cliffs at the coastline
Doesn’t matter he still would be able to invade this shithole Island he was only three days away of overrunning the UK.
@@zigosaleh555 oh really was he now?
@@zigosaleh555 okay then
How would he have invaded "this shithole island"?
@@zigosaleh555 how? What a stupid comment to make.
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@Herr Judenbacken
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hoi4 sux..i still play 3
I play ww2 eastern front 1942 and level 8 is very historically accurate
I've studied WW2 for more than 60 years and lived through that war in England.
@@bclmax hope you enjoy broken air force gameplay
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@@Knowledgiaboth Hitler and winston churchill are belongs to same category...both are equally curse for world...what they had done no one will forgive... Hitler given Holocaust while winston churchill had given Bengal famine,odisha and bang...once he told "Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air and water would be taxed in India."
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HoI4 players and wehraboos explaining how Sea Lion could have been possible if Germany had build transport planes and paradrop into England after destroying the RAF...
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@@Nothing-ui7pj nobody would play a realistic ww2 game.
No, not transport planes. But it was more possible than Barbarossa for example. It is a longer comment so you've been warned in advance.
Two key obstacles were RAF and Royal Navy - I think we can all agree on that, and even the war games played in the 1970's testify to that. Both of those obstacles can in fact be countered in this specific situation by Luftwaffe - and it does not need some major "what if" change like many similar scenarios.
The point of divergence is in the anti-shipping arm of the Luftwaffe. Developing and producing the anti-shipping ordinance for planes (torpedoes and anti-armor bombs) are not expensive or beyond the German capabilities. And Luftwaffe showed that, in those rare occasions that it was tasked with anti-shipping duties (Black Sea and North Sea), was quite successful even with the very basic of investments.
Royal Navy was scattered, and Home Fleet, while alone larger than the entire Kriegsmarine, kept its strongest assets way beyond the reach of the ground based German aircraft SPECIFICALLY for that reason. British were not dumb. That is why all heavy ships were in the northern ports while near the channel there were fleets of destroyers and light cruisers. Either way, a decent anti-shipping campaign in the Luftwaffe counters that. Germany had dive bombers (arguably the best dive bomber air arm in the first half of the war) for smaller and faster ships... but didn't have adequate bombs for them. It had medium bombers that could target larger ships... but it didn't have enough torpedoes for them.
It is quite acceptable to lose 10-20 bomber like that to knock out a larger ship that cannot be replaced that fast.
For instance, in the war game that was played in 1970's, Luftwaffe was locked to terror bombing cities. So the invasion, while initially successful, was not able to resupply as the RN then moved into the channel.
So, you want Sea Lion to have a shot, you need to alter slightly the priorities of your air-force and navy. Instead of investing in new ships and a fleet of subs (that are all expensive and take time) you task the Naval ordinance division to design and produce anti-shipping ordinance that can be mounted on planes. You do not simply switch "military factories" from one type of production to something entirely different, no - Naval ordinance arm was ALREADY making what I am talking about - you just need more of it instead of other things they also made at the same time. They COULD do it, it was just not given the priority.
And while it by no means completely negates the RN supremacy, it checks it. Because you have a very narrow strip of water (that can even be targeted by land-based artillery units), you don't have a large navy but you have an unsinkable aircraft carrier - the primary naval weapon of that war.
The one problem I have not talked about is the RAF. In reality, contrary to the myth, it was not "at its last legs" and Germany "could not simply continue bombing its fields for a few more weeks" - wehraboos are completely nuts. At that time, UK was actually OUTPRODUCING Germany when it came to aircraft PLUS they were loosing less of them as the Battle of Britain was fought over their mainland. And while the RN is often mentioned as the bigger problem, it was not as big as RAF.
Maybe if by some miracle they forced RAF to engage over the "neutral territory" like the channel, or that it simply kept toe-to-toe with them not seeking to destroy RAF but just negate the air superiority (which was within the capabilities of Luftwaffe for a period of a few months - which is what was needed), maybe there is a small chance that the invasion could be successful. In summary, in the best case scenario, you'd have 1:1 in air, navies practically locked (in any other place than the narrow channel, Germans would have absolutely zero chance to do ANYTHING - let me state the obvious) and the outcome of the invasion resting on the amount of divisions that Germans can move across and keep the momentum before the British suffocate them with the mobilized reserves.
But a successful Sea Lion like that (even with things mentioned it is a dice throw), you can forget about Barbarossa next year. A successful Sea Lion means the death of Germany earlier in fact. Germans would get one very populous country to occupy which would be a further drain on resources that Germany was not so rich on, little to no gain as, down the line, the British Empire continues the struggle from other regions of the empire and the Allies just find another staging ground, be it Azores or some place in Africa and just take more time. It just means that the Iron Curtain in 1945-46 is on the European Atlantic coast and not in the middle of Germany.
But could Sea Lion succeed? There is a small chance with some limited changes to the weapon production priority. But even if it is a victory, it would be a perfect example of a Pyrrhic victory that would even hasten the German collapse.
@@MouldMadeMind i would
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We Wish to have a feature episode about the Chiang Kai-Shek's Northern Expedition
Lol I’m watching this video with popcorn
Yes!
Yes! It would be great!
I guess you can say it was Chiang Kai-Shek's Northern Expedition. They regarded it as the KMT's Northern Expedition that unified China under the KMT coalition.
More about the Warlord Era in general would be great.
The British be like: "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna turn around, and surrender"
You Rick rolled me
Make sense since Rick Astley is British
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@@sahiljoshi8058 Payment for railways and the industrial and monetary infrastructure we left.
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Notice how they refuse to say Hitler?
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Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz said he needed 300 submarines to starve Great Britain, he had 60...
And only 10-13 of which were actually operational and out at any time in 1940! So he, technically, had less!
lol sound like work.
"Were gonna need like 5-10 guys to get all this done today."
"Alright here's 3"
I read somewhere that Germany had more submarines than any other country (including US)...they had more than 2000...
@@edvinparmeza1298 you read bs
@@fatmanwalking8610 why?
Sea lion had no chance of working. Germany just didn’t have the naval power and logistics for an opposed beach landing, not least one fighting against the worlds most powerful navy. You only have to look how difficult it was for the allies landing in Sicily and Normandy to see how difficult it was.
Absolutely correct. The British found out how hard a beach landing could be, first at Gallipoli, then at Dieppe. One of the biggest limiting factors for both the Italian and Normandy invasions was the shortage of suitable landing craft. Several invasion plans were postponed or cancelled due to an landing craft shortage. Germany had no purpose designed craft, only modified river barges, as well as virtually no experience at all in that kind of operation.
But strong in land
I’ve always thought that sea lion was never a serious proposition. There is no doubt that German land forces were far superior to British land forces, but Germany hadn’t a hope against the mighty Royal Navy, so there was literally no way to get those land forces across the channel.
@@davidpryle3935 yes they were but British is not weak they were also superior army . But the problem is since British empire was global empire their army was scattered around the world and they were very far from Europe
@@rome316ae3 I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree with you there. No European army could match the Wehrmacht in 1940. That’s why the British army (correctly in my opinion) had to run for their lives at Dunkirk. It wasn’t until the Wehrmacht overextended themselves in the vastness of the Soviet Union that they came unstuck. I can’t really comment on the British army that surrendered to the Japanese at Singapore as I’m not really well read on WW2 in the Far East.
To quote Shakespeare (Richard II):
"This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands."
Thank God for the English Channel and the North Sea. 🙂
German only focus to army than navy
And japan more focus to navy than army...
Note that the German Navy didn't have a operational aircraft carrier because Goreing ( head if the Luftwaffe) was reluctant to allow his " empire" to be shared with other forces- meaning all German Aircraft is the property of the Luftwaffe!
@@walboyfredo6025 ok, good point
But do u believe that germany would have got the time to build one fully capable of fighting in the world war ? And if so , it would only be wasting more fuel, so essential for germany.
Oh the Graf Zeppelin (did I spell that right?) Would be a juicy target and excellent hotel for Germans sailors since it'll never set sail.
The thing carried a decent amount of planes, but could only launch around 10 with its catapult before it had to recharge. For twenty minutes.
That Carrier would be next to useless.
@@youraveragescotsman7119 As said "Germany didn't have an Operational Aircraft carrier" l believe there's was also the "Peter Strauss" ( pardon spelling) along with the "Graf Zepplien". As pointed out before Hermen Goering didn't like the idea of German Aircraft issued to the Navy to which he reffered German Aircraft as his own "emprie".
I am aware that the Battleships "Bismarck" and "Triptiz" had bi-winged patrol aircraft ( which was crane lifted off/on the water surface next to the vessel) and some U-boat had one man Gyrocopter (that was cable attached to the U-boat and had ceiling altitude of 200 feet). In both cases these aircraft were for observation / surveyor purposes rather then strategic/ front line operational. This was promised to Goering.
WELL OF COURSE, JAPAN LIKE ENGLAND IS AN ISLAND...
D-Day, where the Allies had complete Air and Naval supremacy and the axis were getting their asses kicked by the Soviets, was still considered a very risky operation and proper German response could have caused a disaster.
For Sealion they dont have any of those advantages and would be facing the might of the british empire on their own homeland. Yea, good luck with that.
Getting to Britain and establishing supply routes would be impossible, however if that could be somehow accomplished then the country would be overrun very easily. Churchill had sent the bulk of his troops over to Northern Africa.
@@F1pidis Suggest you do some research. There was ample equipment and troops to defend British soil. The Home Guard had just taken delivery of over half a million rifles, sub machine guns and machine guns from Canada and the US. 300 75mm artillery pieces were also delivered. British factories were churning out armour/artillery/mortars/fighter planes. There was a Canadian division based in the South of England, an Australian division, and an NZ brigade. There were about 20,000 Poles stationed in Scotland - would not have taken long to re-deploy them to the south. Britain have approx 20 divisions spread out across the British Isles. Some of those were not fully manned or fully equipped. They would not need to be - if they could only turn up with a rifle and a hundreds rounds per man they could all, eventually be transported south, fired off their rounds in the general direction of any German force (even if they had managed to get all 90,000 of their troops ashore in the planned places) then gone home for dinner and come back the next day - No German forces would have survived the week. Now add to that the many thousands of Home Guard who could have been deployed (many of whom would have been living in the twons and the villages the Germans landed in) many of those were ex WW1 veterans and were looking forward to the chance of ventilating a German or two. British air support taking off from dozens of airfields close by having almost free skies over the target areas and I think you will find the Germans - within about five days would either be dead/wounded/so tired and hungry and out of ammo, fuel,medical supplies they would have been happy to surrender - no matter how fanatical they were. Now please try show anybody who knows anything about humans/warfare/logistics how the Germans would, "Overrun" even the south east corner of England let alone the whole of Britain with the maximum of 90,000 troops they could land (Now factor in how many of those would never have made it onto a beach or a dropping zone alive and the amount of equipment that would have been sunk or destroyed so would no longer be available to the German supermen who survived that to face what I have just outlined above. Then go and work out the possible scenarios for yourself. Do the research - it might prevent you sounding just a little foolish.
Had the Germans not invaded Russia and suffered cataclysmic, mind boggling losses, it is likely D Day would've been impossible. Russia would've been highly unlikely to enter the war to save the Allies and Britain likely would've been forced to negotiate a settlement. But the beautiful flaw with every imperialist dictator since the dawn of time is that they never quit when they're ahead.
@@ericbrown1101If Russia never came in the war,Project Manhattan would have happened on the germans instead
Caesar would have not been surprised by all these issues with landing in Britain
The Romans had air superiority. That's a big game changer.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 You know it's bad when even the Romans had better aircraft. Lol.
13:16 you left out the part where British naval captains repeatedly asked the French captians to join them and fight against the Germans. It was only after it became clear the French were collaborating that the British sunk the French fleet.
You make it sound like the French fleet would have joined the Axis but for the action at Mers el Kebir. The scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon by their own crews in 1942 to prevent the Germans seizing them is proof that this almost certainly wouldn't have happened. There's a lot of room for debate about whether the British could afford to take this chance, but in the context of this video what your suggesting would be an unnecessary addition, and quite a misleading one.
@@sam1111979 I'm not implying the French would have joined the Axis powers, I'm saying they would have either joined or handed over their ships as they were already collaborating.
Either choice would have been bad for us at the time so our leaders made an offer. Join us and fight, hand over your ships to us and we'll use them, sail to the West Indies or USA and leave the ships there until the end of the war. The French refused all options so the only remaining outcome was that they planned to give them to the Germans.
True they scuttled their ships in 1942 but by then the USA had entered the war. The tide was turning both on the Russian and Western fronts. Rommel was also being kicked out of North Africa.
The French could see the inevitable and as usual they were playing both sides.
@@forlorndream1400 There was no western front in 1942.
@@davidpryle3935 Yes there was. There were constant raids carried out on the western front all through 1942. You're acting like St Nazaire and Dieppe never happened.
And before you say raids don't count then I guess the viking age never happened.
@@torinjones3221 There was no western front in 1942. Have you not read your history. Stalin was constantly badgering the western allies to open a western front to relieve the pressure on the red army in the east. They did not manage to do it until June 1944, by which time the red army was steaming towards Germany. A couple of raids does not constitute a front. The western allies air war against Germany was much more important.
One of my favorite operations in HoI 4
What is this Hol 4 people keeping talking about? I'm a boomer so I have no idea what that is lol
@@paparoach007 its a game
It was a pretty stupid idea really. It took the allies years to get the men, resources, ships, armour and specialised landing craft together to even attempt the Normandy landings. It was a smart move to call it off, lest it turn into a reverse Dunkirk but with no escape.
The British did request the French to surrender. They declined and had to be destroyed. I blame the French leaders for the men's deaths. We could not let the ships go to the Nazis.
It's also true, that's the British naval officers tasked with carrying this out, felt very uneasy about it. They reluctantly obeyed admiralty orders.
It was unnecessary to attack former allies. The French assured the British that if Germany ever tried to seize their ships, they would scuttle them first. And when the Nazis tried to seize the other Vichy French fleet at Toulon, the French did exactly that, they scuttled them before the Germans could get them. I'm of the opinion that attacking the French at Mers-el-Kebir was a mistake.
@@ennui9745You can promise all you want but it doesn't mean the French would be able to keep to it. At the end of the day if the French fleet did fall into German hands it would be a direct threat to Britain and risked it's very survival. It was a risk which could not be taken.
@@cwr3959 Are you familiar with what happened at Toulon or are you just going to ignore that because it's not convenient to your narrative?
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@@Emanon... LMAOAOAO
everyone is chilling untill the Nazi comes knocking, look at belgium
@DemonHunter-120 You also forgot Portugal, Ireland, Andorra, Liechtenstein and Vatican City.
@@nergvinergvi7353 *visible confusion*
It did happen. I know of eyewitness accounts of German soldiers being treated for severe burns and near drowning in France. The RAF dropped oil on the channel water, and when the first ships were in position, bombed the oil to set it alight.
There were also considerable preparations made (pipework etc) to be able to set the sea on fire at places thought likely as German landing grounds.
Clever idea. Why didn't the Germans plagiarize the idea when the roles were reversed in 1944 would be my question.
@@raymondpaller6475 the allies deceived them as to where the landings were going to happen.
@@kathramsay1569 Solid point. I can see now that you're clearly correct.
Germany’s lack of landing craft would have been a major stumbling point.
The greatest stumbling block would have been the Royal Navy.
@@anthonyeaton5153 I would have thought that the German navy with Bismarck Tripitz Scharnhorst Garf Spee etc would have been a problem. But then both airforces would have been bombing both navies. Don’t you just love history.
@@papapabs175 they would have been of not much use for protecting and landings. Also the RN had battleships. The crux of the proposed landings actually crossing the North Sea and E Channel. Useless and hoc L craft etc
Germany did assemble over 2,000 coal barges for this.
@@brianlong2334 This is why I love history, there is always someone who knows a lot more that I do. German MFP’s 🤔 something knew to learn everyday. Thanks Bri.
Glosses over the disparity in naval forces. In 1935 Germany began building two battleships (Scharnhorst and Gniesenau, really just weak battlecruisers). Britain had 12 battleships (old), 3 battlecruisers (old), and five aircraft carriers with another being built.
In 1936 Germany began building Bismarck, Tirpitz and Graf Zeppelin. In response, Britain began building five new battleships and four new aircraft carriers.
And much of the German strength was damaged or lost off Norway (with the Royal Navy down one aircraft carrier and a few destroyers).
So if the mighty Kriegsmarine could send out its full available surface strength for the invasion of Britain, this would be 3 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 8 destroyers and several dozen torpedo boats.
In the summer of 1940, with demands elsewhere, naval defenses for the British Isles were reduced to 5 battleships, 11 cruisers, 73 destroyers and several hundred smaller craft of varying size. But as the Luftwaffe campaign intensified, this force was increased.
Essentially, Germany could send out any ship it wanted sunk.
dont foget that britain was heavily outnumbered in the air
@@binns5302 Key word is "was". The RAF consistently shot down more German planes than they lost, but RAF fighter losses were greater than German losses. This was made up by the pilots of about half of the RAF planes shot down surviving and returning to duty. Most pilots shot down over the Channel didn't survive, and Germans shot down over Britain who did survive ended up in prison camps so Luftwaffe losses were heavier.
The RAF consistently thought the Luftwaffe was growing in size (an impression fueled by the Luftwaffe increasing the number of sorties per day to 3 or 4, and sending out forces in concentrated attacks on the RAF in the later stages of the battle). In August-September the rate of plane losses increased as this battle of attrition heated up.
This phase of the assault was on the German assumption that Britain was producing up to 400 planes a month comparable to German production) and that if this could be disrupted the Luftwaffe could gain superiority. Problem is that Britain was producing about 300 planes a week and their greater problem was finding pilots as they were only graduating 200 new pilots a week and had up to 40% of their pilots involved in training as either instructors or qualified pilots enrolled in advanced training programs (I picture them sending pilots off to a WW2 equivalent of Top Gun). The RAF thought they were approaching the breaking point when they had to send their pilots up 2 or 3 times a day. Surplus planes were transferred to the Polish and Czech air forces in exile and they were brought into the battle for the later stages.
But look up "Channel Sickness" for the strain the Luftwaffe was under. (Officers in Nazi Germany faking illnesses so they could avoid being sent into battle).
By the end of the battle, the RAF and allies had grown in strength while Luftwaffe fighter squadrons had been reduced to about 2/3 strength through loss of pilots, shortage of replacements, lack of new planes and shortages of parts to maintain and repair those they had. Bomber squadrons were doing even worse.
It wasn't just some dumb decision when the Luftwaffe stopped daylight attacks and shifted to night bombing of cities. They were under greater strain and were approaching the breaking point faster than the RAF.
This is one of my favorite what ifs in history.
The English channel is called "Ärmelkanal" in German, not "Englisch-Kanal".
Or "der Kanal" as it was teached to us lol
@Jordan Berry We wouldn’t be speaking German if they won
@Jordan Berry youre speaking half German anyway
@Jordan Berry If Germany won, they would most probably make German a compulsory subject from first grade in all of Europe so that German would become the lingua franca in Europe over time, but they wouldn't have been able to force a nation to abandon their traditional language. So yes, you would speak German but as a second language.
@Jake I don't care. In the video they try to make the map in German language and not in English
Edit: Homie deleted his comment 💀
the Germans actually didn't attack radar. they had conducted a study earlier which indicated the British did not have it. therefore, they left all the towers alone and this allowed the British to mobilize a better defense.
Source? Radar is a British invention.
@@gw7624 The Germans, Japanese, British and USA had radar, and Germany did attack Chain Home radar installations and British airfields early in the Battle of Britian.
The Germans stopped after a few British bombers attacked Berlin doing zero damage so Hitler the supposed "genius" attacked London. Germany lost the Battle of Britian b/c an amateur named Adolph thought he was a GENIUS.
@@ronaldsmith4153 I don't think you understand what it is you're responding to.
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This is an excellent overview... the reality is that Germany’s mauling by the Royal Navy in the Norwegian fiords made a successful invasion impossible.
And also the RAF Lancaster squadrons destroying Germany factory's to be able to mass produce
Well, this video is just astonishing, very well made and with a lot of effort in it!
Got to love our seas and the charming British weather 🤣🤣🤣
Sad blitz noises
I love the British weather. It's one of many reasons I want to live there.
@@applescruff1969 I wouldn’t bother it’s now a complete shithole.
The days of the Beatles are long gone.
"How did Germany plan to invade Britain?"
I always half jokingly answer with, "they didn't"
Because I still swear when sea lion was planned they totally forgot the Royal Navy exists.
And they also forgot the Kriegsmarine was operation on a shoestring budget at the best of times.
No, there was definitely a plan. The German Navy and German Army planned to abandon the operation, and then blame the German Air Force for not establishing air supremacy. It was a good plan. It worked.
@@ianwhitchurch864 ok this is the best response I've had to this
@@valeriejames4675 I'm also only being slightly flippant. The Sealion planning meeting of 7 August 1940 between General Halder and Admiral Schneiwind went as follows.
The Navy goes, 'We can get most of 6 divisions across the narrowest bit of the channel over two weeks'.
Army replies "I utterly reject the Navy's
proposal; from the point of view of the Army I regard their proposal as complete suicide. I might just as well put the troops that have been landed straight through the sausage machine:. ", and demanded a 'broad front' landing right across southern England.
Navy goes "that it must regard the broad front not only as
suicidal, but as a sacrifice of the troops on their way to land".
That was when they agreed the Air Force needed to do the impossible first ...
@@ianwhitchurch864 Ahh yes, the brilliant plan to once and for all eliminate the RAF, it's fighter command and their invaluable radar stations, by ... *checks note* bombing the London suburbs.
@@valeriejames4675 Dowding knew Fighter Command didn't have to *win* the Battle of Britain, it just needed to still be there until Autumn storms stopped the channel being able to support a German invasion, right ? Because if Fighter Command still has a couple of hundred Hurricanes and Spitfires, they can provide enough air defense for the Navy to still be floating and thus trash any invasion.
So. The Luftwaffe *has to* bring Fighter Command to a decisive battle. Bombing radar just means Fighter Command flies around pointlessly, as it can't find the fights to get shot down in, and so it's still there and Sealion fails.
Therefore, hit the target they have to fly up to defend - London.
And it sort of worked, except the British aircraft industry and RAF training schools were better than the Luftwaffe expected, so it was a case of 'here they come again, the last hundred Spitfires'.
Damn the animation showing the “conquest” of Denmark took longer than the actual takeover
ww2 is the most interesting event in human history like i watch every video and documentary ever
Absolutly wrong, the differenz between ww2 and ww1 is that ww1 had an open end.
While ww2 only could end in cominter wins or allies.
It is very interesting, lots of moving parts and storylines tied into one big story.
@@joegarrison5911 that's how history works.
Why do you try to look intelligent in the internet.
@@MouldMadeMind it must suck being so miserable.
@@joegarrison5911 tell me.
13:36 Perhaps a few French soldiers were killed in the British attack on Mers-el-Kebir, but the vast majority of the French personnel killed were SAILORS, not soldiers.
03:45 on this particular point the germans were absolutlely right considering the fact that, after the fall of France, the british decided to sink almost the entire french navy fleet, which would had given to the germans a power over the sea similar to the english fleet. This factor was decisive on this campaign.
It was needed to be done, unfortunately at the cost of Many innocent lives. I 100% agree
Great Britain pleaded with the French to either hand over their Navy or at least sail it to British Ports. The French refused, they were given a deadline and could have evacuated their Sailors......there was no decision to be made......the French Fleet simply could not be allowed to fall into German hands ! 🤷♀️
These videos revealing the details of the military planning are so interesting
Thanks for clearing that up mate. Crystal balls have always been in short supply during my time on the planet. Seems others have been more fortunate. We also have to remember Churchill broke down in tears when he received the report but felt the French had lef him no option and he had to show the US he had the ruthless streak necessary to withstand what was coming and was worth supporting.
By invading it.. Duh
Lol
Didn’t manage it thought did he. Even when It was just us against Germany. After France bitched out.
You couldn’t. The british is protected by the royal navy
Video and sound are great, top notch graphics.
.長卿 - Observing your enemy is preferential to attracting them.
Good shit homie
Funny fact the plans were very well executed, even persons for overtaking government functions in the UK were schooled and their names are listed in plans for the occupied regions.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!
Realistically UK would never be invaded. They have too many advantages
Succinctly concluded.
Japanese ambassador to England: tell me more about your attack at Mers El Kebir
I'm happy that he put a sir in winston Churchill
Churchill wasn't knighted until 1955 shortly after he resigned as PM. The Queen offered him Duke of London but he declined and instead the title was given to his son after he passed away in 1965.
@@DavBlc7 Yay. That's the way to do it. Facts.
@@DavBlc7 Churchill's son was never given a title, his wife on the other hand was made a life peer
Good video I love Histry
Do not
Human rights right side
Case SeeLowe, named after a Berlin park, required air supremacy by the Luftwaffe, amphibious ability by the Kriegsmarine to land 250,000 troops(greatly reduced later), etc., neither of which was achieved. They planned to land troops on a wide front and then extend a ring inland, then one about London. The broad front and 1/4 million troops were greatly reduced by the navy, who had not recovered from the costly Norwegian sea battle. With the defeat in the Battle of Britain, facing the Home Fleet(UK) and a recovering RAF, even Hitler had to concede SeeLowe was impractical. His heart was never in it anyway; Russia beckoned...
The RAF were not "Recovering".....The RAF actually had more Pilots and Fighters at the end of the BoB than they had at the beginning. The RAF was growing even stronger 😃👍
Big up Dorset
Well, I think you all should gives British spies in Germany more credits. They convince Hitler with operation Barbossa as his top priority instead of operation Sealion, so GBR would had more times to assamble their allies.
There's a lot to be said for the theory that Hitler only promoted the development of Operation Sealion as a feint to distract Stalin because he knew his next target had to be Russia. He needed Soviet oil and soil to secure his Reich. To that extent Sealion worked as the invasion of Russia was achieved with surprise and speed (as in France, initially). I think Hitler preferred the idea of preserving Britain as some kind of subservient partner as he liked the way its Saxon(ish) people lorded-it over Empire natives. Had it not been for Churchill and the will of ordinary people it's quite possible that Britain could have come succumbed to a shoddy accommodation with him.
One man stepping up prevented it and just as importantly his prevention of another man (Halifax - who would have accommodated Hitler at any cost) stepping up.
Tl;dr. Wermacht had no opportunity to invade the United Kingdom, and the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of England were to force the British to sign the surrender.
Exactly. Sealion was a joke, and a bad one at that.
Doesn't stop the internet army of Wehraboos fantasising over this kind of clickbait tho.
No such thing as the battle of England🤡 it’s the Battle of Britain there is a massive difference
Really well done.
Thank God Churchill was PM at that time and not the fools we now have in positions of power.
Churchill did great holding britain together. Other than that he was a stupid bastard who knew nothing
Good idea.
i remember good old Viking days when invading England was easy
A ding the ding oh the durgen as Mr. dares
The Vikings suddenly stopped when they eventually kept getting their arses handed to them
@@tomben6180 said proud british person hahahhahah
@@dzonnyblue3065 I’m not wrong though. The Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 was the last proper Viking invasion and they got annihilated and never properly came back. Unfortunately for King Harold, the Victor of that battle, William the Conqueror invaded straight after it.
@@tomben6180 yeah british sneak bellow bridge and killed lone viking warrior because nobody manage to take him out in real battle !!!
The fact that Germany didn’t have the amphibious lift capability Sea Lion is a mute point. Same thing with Taiwan. Yeah you can drop airborne units but without a large amphibious capability you’re pissing away assets.
The British fought the Battle Of Britain under the pretence that the Nazi’s were determined to launch a cross channel invasion. And for decades after this storyline seemed plausible. However, it’s commonly understood today that Germany had neither the means nor the equipment to carry out an invasion. Everything they assembled in the French ports was intended to give the British the assumption that an invasion was coming, but what was brought out was unsuitable to carry 300,000 troops across the channel. Hilter’s ultimate goal and this is recorded history was to bring the RAF to the brink of extinction, then pull back and force the British to a negotiated peace. He was already planning an invasion of the Soviet Union and didn’t want a two front war. However, the English continue to this day to perpetuate the invasion myth in order to add substance the RAF victory.
Nothing of the sort is 'commonly understood today.' Were you to read 'Invasion of England - 1940' by Peter Schenk, you would have access to full details of the German invasion plan, which was very real indeed. By mid September, 1940, the Kriegsmarine had assembled 159 coasters, 1859 converted river barges, 397 tugs/trawlers, and almost 1200 motor boats in French & Belgian. The plan involved a first wave of nine divisions, supported by a weak airborne division in the first wave, with a further nine divisions in the second wave, and six divisions in the third wave. The initial assault force involved just over 60,000 men, carried in 894 barges (towed in pairs by 57 transports and 390 tugs) and 300 motor boats. The first wave, in entirety, involved just over 150,000 men.
'Hitler’s ultimate goal and this is recorded history was to bring the RAF to the brink of extinction, then pull back and force the British to a negotiated peace.' You claim that this is 'recorded history?' Where is it 'recorded?' Certainly, the invasion plan presupposed the Luftwaffe having air superiority over the Channel, but bringing the RAF to the brink of extinction was never possible. The worst that could have happened would have been a temporary withdrawal of Fighter Command north of the Thames to rest & re-equip. At the time the British were already outproducing Germany in terms of aircraft, especially fighters.
I would agree that the importance of the Battle of Britain was and is exaggerated, largely because of Churchill's speeches at the time, intended to garner support in the United States. Churchill could have said, truthfully, that 'An invasion is not possible. The German fleet is tiny, and Britain has the largest navy on earth,' but the David versus Goliath image was more effective, and, inaccurately, is the image many people have today.
The reality, of course, was that the Royal Navy held absolute supremacy in the Channel, and any attempt to invade with the resources at Germany's disposal had no hope of success, but to suggest that no such plan ever existed is simply not in accordance with either the facts or the historical record.
Really! What matters is that the RAF grew in strength faster than the Luftwaffe and would have prevailed anyway. This notion of Georing as a real threat is false.
@user-wj6dt5bq3w The British never claimed any invincibility, only that any possibility of invasion of invasion had been prevented.
Please don't quote from a source as tainted as Hesse, as it hardly reflects credit upon you.
In regards to people that think the Luftwaffe could ever bomb the RN into the ground in 1940, no. They did not possess any Anti-Shipping training at all until early '41 and no torpedo planes until '42.
They also did not possess a bomb capable of penetrating the armoured decks of British Battleships and Heavy Cruisers, as seen with the largest vessel the Luftwaffe ever sunk, that belonged to the British, being a Light Cruiser.
I though a British carrier was sunk, was it a mine or torpedo in the Norwegian campaign? But even then the Germans lost 37 military ships to the British 11.
Before spouting British propaganda, I suggest reading "Kustenflieger" by Adam Thompson, "The History of Dive Bombing" by Peter Smith and "Invasion 1940" by Peter Schenk (or its new edition)
@@christopherwebber3804
And the Luftwaffe, with no Anti-Shipping training, is supposed to stop Heavy Cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships? Dive-bombing is nice, yes, but you can't, accurately, hit a ship moving at full-speed all the time.
There is an account of a Stuka pilot dropping his bomb on a Destroyer that was sitting still, but missing by 300 metres. If they tried to invade in 1940, the Germans would lose.
@@youraveragescotsman7119another book you obviously haven't read. "Naval Warfare in the English Channel 1939-1945 by Peter Smith. Luftwaffe pilots had antishipping training, they had their own equivalent of Coastal Command, which was originally allocated to the navy. They did have armour piercing bombs. They did sink british destroyers, which by the way had a gun director that could only deal with aircraft in level flight. You missed another bit of propaganda- German aircraft didn't have rear gunners.
@@christopherwebber3804
They could sink Destroyers, yes, but they didn't have bombs capable of actually hurting British Heavy Cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships. Those are a lot scarier and more dangerous that a Destroyer.
The largest RN vessel sink by the Germans was a Light Cruiser at Crete, which was when the Luftwaffe had actually been retrained to hit Ships more effectively. In 1940, the Luftwaffe did not have anywhere NEAR the required training to take on the Home Fleet and expect to win. They had no Torpedo Planes to handle heavier Ships until 1942, which by then invading the UK would be impossible.
The Luftwaffe failed at Dunkirk to stop the evacuation against slow and stationary Destroyers. Good luck dealing with Ships moving at full speed across the Channel.
We Wish to Feature about the Chinese Northern Expedition
*Imagine*
A Junker/Messer fly (again) over London
The junker family run Europe today.
Well made
I’m not sure if the uk thought Germany might attack from another route but to this day you can still see substantial defences built on the east coast of Scotland.
Thousands of concrete blocks at beaches still exist plus gun placements etc. Was an attack from Scandinavia or Holland possible maybe?
An attack was possible, but resupplying it wasnt. The RN thought East Anglia was the best place for the Germans to land - but then again they knew about things like the vicious tidal currents in the channel that land-lubbers handwave past.
Yes, seen some of those. Someone was obviously expecting trouble....
@@Brian-om2hh The irony is that almost all of them were built in mid to late war, when they were a complete waste of effort ...
Didn't want a repeat of the Maginot line
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The Allies: Ha! Only we can do a complex and hard amphibious invasion.
And only then with a great deal of prior practice of Amphib warfare - and yet it still went wrong in places. Germany had a snowball in hell's chance of getting any meaningful organization onto terra firma. At that period in history your statement is absolutely correct.
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He who must not be named.
Hitler said about the UK "We will wring the chicken's neck".
Churchill's reply? "Some chicken. Some neck." 🤣
Germany had little interest in fighting the UK, I suggest checking out Peter Hitchen's book the Phoney Victory. Quite a few videos here on UA-cam too.
@Kordell Swoffer many nations and millions of people paid the price. A lot of disinformation around, in particular, here. The point that I was making was that neither Germany had the capability to invade the UK (other than demoralise) nor UK had capability to fight Germany on land (in Europe), hence other than burning thousands of innocent German people to death, UK's role in WW2 is debatable.
@@v.3779 No such thing as an innocent German once war was declared. I would like to hear you expand on the last part of your post.
Good use of Fraktur on the maps - and I didn't see any long-S errors because there were no medial S letters, but English Channel can't just be calqued as "Englisch-Kanal". It's normally called Ärmelkanal or, at the least, Englischer Kanal. Not Englisch-Kanal.
My question; everybody knows the strait is in Brittish hands, always been.
Germany had The Netherlands, Denkmark and Norway. Why not go from the East or North? It may be a longer way, but the English may have also been delayed in seeing that coming. Or landing on Ireland maybe.
The Kreigsmarine was barely able to assemble an assault force capable of crossing the Channel. How would barges towed in pairs by tugs or barges ever hope to get to Ireland? Barges and large Atlantic rollers are incompatible.
Invading from the North (Scotland, I suppose?) is an excellent way to run right into the Home Fleet.
They'd never get to Ireland. Too far, too close to Anti-Invasion forces. Oh and the barges would sink in the rough seas.
A large part of the British (not English there is a difference) was based in Scotland
The Blitz didn't just happen in London. Cities like Kingston-upon-Hull took more damage as a overall percentage of the city than London
England does not and never has had either a navy or an airforce, any more than Texas does. England is just a region of Great Britain. It is the Royal Navy and Royal Airforce.
Whilst England hasn’t really been a proper country since the Acts of Union in 1707, the makeup of the United Kingdom’s Union is different to the United States’ Union. England is more of a country than Texas but you are right, the military is the whole of the UK’s, not just England’s.
Wales scottland and northern ireland are all pupets of England
@@welsh-cymru1588 Why are you all speaking english then and do you try to deny that England rules over britain?
@@welsh-cymru1588 The real picture is way way more complex than that. By the way, I'm half English half Welsh. And yeah, I sometimes wake up finding my left and right arms punching hell out of each other.
Not. Please read some history rather than fantasy. It's not all Celts and Anglo-Saxons. However, I agree with you about that dumb-ass 'puppets' comment. I think he (it's usually a guy) was just trolling. Frankly, two things I could live without are (fervent) religion and nationalism (often a step away from racism). Neither have led to good things.
@@welsh-cymru1588 You are deluding yourself with nationistic blx n bs. We are a mongrel race (As are so many others should we have the will or the means to check back) and even those who may be able to trace back many centuries have no clue at to the origins of the first in their line to make it to this group of Islands. My own line in recorded history and thus proveable stretches to Scotland, Ireland, Wales (gt grand and grandad died in the poorhouse in Carfdiff) Cornish, Scandinavian and French - probably Norman. Half of our population has ancestry from who knows where. I've muddied the waters further by marrying a Sicilian with Jewish/Spanish/Greek and we think Albanian ancestery to add to her Italian line. Our daughter's partner is half Welsh - sort of squaring the circle there. Many more of your so called countrymen have English origins (English themselves being a further set of mongrels) through the sheer numbers moving there to find work in the coal/steel/docking industries. I've been recently to Cardiff in the last four weeks and the multi culturalism of the place is on a par with most other big cities in Europe. However if you want to go your own way get on with it.
The detail left out is that Hitler actually believed, ludicrously, that the Brits saw themselves as a Germanic Aryans and would have no problem being allied with his Reich. Guess he didn't take much history!
We may have descended from Teutons, but we knew right from wrong which is why we excelled as an empire, eclipsing anybody, including Hitler's hordes.
I didn’t know there was an English Air Force in the years of ww2 , or if one ever existed,
Yeah, same here. I know of the ROYAL Airforce though.
Yeah, it was a small private air force built by some Richard Branson type guy.
It was finally disbanded because of the issue of the beards and oxygen masks.
Also none of the cockpits had cup holders. The pilots all jumped ship.
i accidentally read the title as: How did germany plan to conquer Berlin in WW2?
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Germany really thought Uk is France and they thought the British were weak
They weren't weak but saved by their island and navy
Only way Germany can succeed is if the Japanese Navy came to the assistance of the Germans, the Japanese navy hold off the Royal Navy while the Germans focus on the landing and Invasion of GB.
TY 😊
If they did invade(they would never be able to but if) it would’ve been one giant Stalingrad especially if the channel was cut off by the navy.
It would have been an audacious attempt even if the won the battle of Britain but I doubt they would have succeeded. Firstly, the Royal Navy was then 10x the size of the Germans navy and even getting troops over with air superiority, our defences were set up and we were already prepared for any landings of the kind.
It really gets on my nerves whenever someone says that Germany could've won WW2 or they would've easily invaded Britain. A naval invasion would have seen total destruction at the hands of the Royal Navy and the RAF would have shot down any paratrooper aircraft. Plus Russia would have beaten Germany anyway
The Soviet Union itself stood little to no chance against the Germans and would've completely collapsed had it not been for the Lend Lease act which saw 180 billion US dollars (in today's worth), 14.000 aircraft, 15.000 tanks, 400.000 jeeps and other MVs, 1.750.000 tonnes of food and clothing delivered to them from 1942 to 1945. I imagine Britain got the same if not more amount of supplies. Germany stood no chance of total victory, all they could've done was actually accomplish their WW1 plan, beat France as fast and painless as possible, then turn to the USSR and destroy them before they get to full strength. Britain would never surrender because they knew they had the support of the US but in a hypothetical scenario where France and USSR both lost and capitulated within a year or two as the German plan suggested, wouldn't have been able to keep up the resistance without complete reliance on the US. Germany could only negotiate an armistice or peace talks with Britain through a position of power which they held for a really short time in reality.
Sure it would've been easier to beat Russia without lend lease but it would've taken a lot longer. The fall of Moscow wouldn't have done jack sh*t and the USSR is way too large to conquer through force
@@oliversherman2414 Yeah but remember that 95% of Russia behind Moscow is a frozen wasteland with scattered settlements every 150-200 miles. Germany had taken the "Lebensraum" they were after Russia; the wheat fields of Ukraine and Belarus and the ports of the Baltic sea even with Lend Lease in full effect. In a war where the Battle of Britain and Lend Lease with the Soviet Union never happen because the USA isn't officially in the Allies' side, Germany would have no problem taking the 3 symbolic Russian cities of Moscow, Leningrad (St.Petersburg) and Stalingrad (Volgograd). No need for them to reach the Pacific coast of the Soviet Union. Btw I'm no German sympathiser, I just thought of a "plausible" scenario where Germany could get the closest to what would be called a victory in WW2.
Even if Moscow and other industrial cities around it were captured Russia still wouldn't have surrendered. Don't forget we're talking about Joseph Stalin here (a murderous madman who doesn't hesitate to make large sacrifices). He would never have even considered surrender and would instead have sent every man, woman and child to die in his name. This is evident from the way the Red Army faught
@@oliversherman2414 Agreed, Stalin and the Red Army would fight to the end, but even a crazy bloodthirsty dictator would know when he is defeated (a mentally stable one at least). Without adequate manpower and equipment, major industrial cities to continue the war effort and the extremely valuable allied help which allowed the construction of factories behind the Ural mountains, even Stalin would know when he is defeated. But, history can't be (and thankfully for this one) changed.
On the map they forgot to show the Island of Bornholm as occupied by the Germans.
The numbers support that Britain was not losing the Battle of Britain.
Germany began the battle with a massive superiority in number of aircraft, and yet Britain held back 20% of their pilots for flight schools to train more pilots (while German flight schools were closed so the flight instructors could be sent into combat.
Throughout the battle, the RAF overestimated the strength of the Luftwaffe and prepared for a long war.
Throughout the battle, the Luftwaffe command underestimated the RAF imagining that the British were near breaking.
But the Germans were taking heavy losses. They lost more planes than the RAF consistently, though as many of those were bombers they lost fewer fighters than the RAF did. But British aircraft production was about twice the rate of Germany's and Britain was buying combat aircraft from USA throughout 1940. And as combat was mostly over Britain, British pilots who bailed out of their planes could parachute to safety (about half survived) while Germans shot down would be killed or captured.
By the time the massive campaign to break the RAF was underway, German squadrons were down to about 67% strength and were exhausting themselves flying multiple sorties a day with no days off to rest. The pressure was so intense that for the first time the British were losing planes faster than they could be replaced (something the Germans had been doing for some time) and grew worried.
What was happening was the brutal war of attrition was speeding up. Both sides were losing planes faster than ever before. But because the German pilots were making multiple attacks per day it appeared that they were more numerous than they really were, so the British were concerned they were falling behind and losing.
Fact is that the Luftwaffe couldn't have kept up that pressure for much longer. They were exhausting their pilots and their aircraft (with more and more grounded for lack of spare parts). Look up "channel sickness" for the effect the battle was having on German morale.
I can’t handle the intense war description and then an upbeat commercial about fake war
Wonder what the old Germans would have made of Brighton 😳
That alone would have provided reason enough to pack it all in and go home....
And a last resort Churchill was prepared to set fire to the channel and fry the Germans if they crossed
The "English" Air Force. Dear oh dear.
The first time I heard of this operation was actually in Mental Omega.
The English air force, lol. was there an Irish, Scots and Welsh air force as well?
RAF! I hate it when some former colonials assume it is all about 'England'. If I were a billionaire I would love to put together the best baseball team in the world, ever, and ask the US if we could take place in the 'World Series' - oh yeah , we play our home games at Cardiff, Belfast, London, Edinburgh and Launceston in rotation.
@@andymoore9977 But nobody plays baseball only in America and Japan. Not much of a world series, lol.
Says 'France' promptly colours in The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and then France.
The germans lost the battle of Britain because the British had radar and were better organised than the germans, not due to some miracle as some may believe.
That wasn't the *only* reason. The Germans vastly underestimated the British aircraft production rate, meaning lost aircraft were replaced far quicker than the Germans thought possible.
Nice
If this did happen I think it would be one of if not the deadliest battle of the war the British would fight to the last man and those that survived would probably evacuate to Canada which had a formidable navy and air force its self
HEY KNOWLEDGIA.
Why not start the invasion in Norway and invade through the Scottish lowlands? It may be a long distance, but it would be pretty much undefended.
LB you are wrong l am afraid. There was a large Royal Navy Base in Scotland called Scarpa Flow. The ships based there destroyed the German Imperial Navy in WW1 in the battle of Jutland. So with that in mind invading Scotland wouldn't be a good idea.
The North Sea would have been utterly trechorous in those totally inadequate river barges.
They would be out of range for fighter cover and they would isolated in rough terrain and no way to be supplied as the British would controll the air and the sea
So you're telling them to invade right in front of *Scapa Flow* where a significant amount of the Royal Navy was stationed?
@@youraveragescotsman7119 Yep and Rosyth too .
Rubber dinghy’s from France? This idea seems to be working quite well at the moment!
UK being black and Germany red is weird
But the UK is blue.
@Alex Kamis I was talking about in the video
This whole thing prove how incredibly important Air Superiority is to modern warfare
Later in the war, but not in 1940. Or, at least, not in naval warfare when the opposition is the Luftwaffe.
Britain was like head of the avengers, America Captain Marvel & Germany Thanos gaining ever more power.