Hitler's Crazy Plan To Invade UK: Operation Sea Lion | Time Travels
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- In 1940 Operation Sea Lion was the code name for the Nazi's planned amphibious attack on Great Britain.
World War II had seen the fall of France and Hitler's eyes were on the United Kingdom but from the start, this planned attacked was flawed. We explore why.
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It's our friend Mike Brady from Oceanliner Designs!
I would know that voice anywhere!
So nice to have your narration Mike, far to many AI narrations these days where they pronounce words and naunces so badly. Your voice is perfect for the narrations. Loved this story.
Thank you Mike for another great video. From Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you Australia for producing such an intelligent expert. I saw him on television the other week on channel 4. Gets about a bit does Mike.
Good to hear from our friend Mike Brady
Such a relief to hear a real voice instead of some robot, well done Sir
Totally agree. 😊👍
I thought I recognised those Antipodean dull set tones ... sorry ... dulcet tones.😅.
The Ocean liner guy. Great stuff.
I’m wondering how you can link the Titanic into the video 😂
The Royal Navy would have annihilated any German invasion fleet. The air Battle of Britain was just the first phase to gain control of the air. German Air Force planes were not equipped nor trained to attack ships at sea.
Agreed Germany didn’t have a single capital ship available for operation sealion
First of all, to my mind, this is not aquestion of "who is better" - it's a question of military facts as they occured in history. Please remember how vulnerable the "Bismarck" was (air-torpedoed), - at the same time (May 1941) the Stukas damaged the British mediterenian fleet very hard in the Battle of Crete ... or think of the "Repulse" and "Prince of Wales" sunk by japanese plains. At this time it was evident, that Plans were stronger than even Capital ships. So the battle in the air was decisive ! Would the Luftwaffe have gained air superiority over the channel - SEALION could have worked ... still very risky, no doubt - but possible ...
Yes airpower would see the death of the battleship but this is Europe in 1940 not the Pacific mid war, the Luftwaffe was designed to support land not sea operations no torpedo bombers to speak of unlike the Japanese. Remember stukas couldn't stop stationary destroyers embarking troops
@@AdanClark-zx7pw Yes, but Divebombers were as lethal as Torpedo-carrying planes. As I mentioned in the battle of Crete german Stukas damaged the mediterenian part of the Royal Navy hard, most of the heavy units were damaged and were inoperable for quote a time. And Stukas the germans had in 1940 too.
@@AdanClark-zx7pw Ah sorry - you mentioned Dunkirk: Everyone knows, that AH wanted the British to escape, he was very anglophile and hoped for a peace (Didn't work very well). The evacuation of their troops was one of the bravest and toughest operations the Brits did in WW II, but the germans did nearly nothing to stop them.
An alternative channel? LETS GO !
This video does an excellent job of showing why Sea Lion has over the decades become synonymous with an operation doomed to failure without ever actually happening.
There have been those that claimed if Germany had been ready to attack right after France Fell they could have done it. This shows why it NEVER HAD A CHANCE
It certainly was not considered a crazy plan here in the UK as I well recall. Remember, that after HItler's at the time, unbelievable advances across Europe anything and everything was possible by him. And without the gallant Royal Air Force we would have been forced into a negotiated peace without the necessity of a forced landing against the support of the Royal Navy. Hindsight is a marvellous thing!
Never would’ve happened with Dad‘s army 😀😀😀
Odd, then, that Churchill felt safe enough to send a troop convoy to North Africa in August, 1940, wasn't it?
Nice one Mike! So to sum up, Operation Sea Lion would've rapidly become Operation Sea Loser!
Just image spending 30 hours in one of those barges hoping it does not sink from the waves and meanwhile the Royal Navy and the RAF are having a field day.
Just look at the film Private Ryan. See how hard it was for American troops on Omaha beach coming in their barges. And they had total air and naval superiority and look what happened to them. If the Germans tried this plan in 1940 without naval and air superiority, it would have been Omaha Beach times 10 for them. The sea would have turned red with blood.
If the British had feigned the collapse of the RAF and made encouraging signals to the Germans they might have gone ahead with Sealion. In that case the British miay have been able to anhilate a significant chunk of the German forces and maybe ended the war before 1941.
Interesting idea but the aim was to stop the Germans even attempting the invasion. Setting up a trap like you mentioned has the problem of what happens if it goes wrong and Germany succeeds. Better deterrence than risk a failure.
If the government had given Whittle the money he needed in the early 30's we'd have had jet fighters in 1940.
@@mikemines2931 maybe. But the Germans would have had them too. I doubt the British would have been willing or able to keep a jet plane program a complete secret in the 1930s
@@andrewfarrow4699 You mean like we kept owning an Enigma machine secret.
Nice job Mike !
If they had waited until 2024 the Royal Navy would have been sent to meet them half way to escort them safely ashore to be greeted by Border Force.
You have to factor in Gneisenau, Scharnhorst Lützow in dry sick till December, effecting repairs to torpedo hits taken in the Norway campaign, just the scheerand hipper (and maybe the Prinz Eugen as she was still under going trials and working up) would not have been enough to drawn off the home fleet,
Half the Kriegsmarine surface fleet was lost taking Denmark and Norway.
And only 11' inch peashooters against 14, 15, and 16 inch guns
Any seaborne invasion is a dicey thing! The US and Britain planned out the Normandy invasion for 2 years, building up logistics, landing techniques, and training the troops. And even after all that investment Normandy was a near thing. If the reserve Panzers had been deployed immediately, if Rommel had been onsite, and the Pas de Calais feint had been unsuccessful, the Allies might have taken a major defeat. Germany, not a sea power, couldn’t throw together Operation Sea Lion in such a short time with any hope of success. Even the eternal optimist with the funny mustache realized it was a disaster waiting to happen!
England already had peace.
Stalin did not expect Barbarossa because he thought Germany would avoid a 2 front war at all costs - what caused their loss in 1918. If Sealion was successful then Stalin would know he was next!
Hello Michael, yet another exceptionally well done video. This graphically shows why SeaLion WAS NEVER going to succeed! I believe in 1962, the Imperial War College and /or Sandhurst conducted a "SeaLion war game". In short, it was all over in 36hrs! Cheers.
I seem to remember the Germans were stopped south of London at one of the defensive lines. I may be wrong but the 13th defensive line come to mind.
@bigblue6917 I think you are recalling something else, in the "Sealion wargame" the German forces never made it off the beach.
Brinkmanship by AH no more hoping he could force a settlement so he could turn on Russia blitz and Atlantic same thing when that didn't work he thought Mussolini would Ty us down which backfired badly and he had to pull the Italians coals out of the fire delaying Barbarossa and giving general winter a chance to respond
@@bigblue6917 I think they got as far as "Graves"end.
Great video!
Meth 'addiction' is like being addicted to donuts. You just end up really liking it
Refreshing properly documented and spoken history.. I will subscribe as I will never subscribe to any channel using AI voicing
Excellent!
Hitler never took it seriously. He was a micromanager yet never attended a single planning meeting - Neither did the head of the Kriegsmarine, Raeder
Actually, he attended several, as did Raeder.
I have said that the reason Germany defeated France was speed.
I did not mean meth but that the Germans moved faster than the Allies thought possible.
Although I'm sure the meth helped.
Blitzkrieg.
Two things: one, Paratroopers do plenty no matter where they land. In large part, confusion and misdirection. And any rear line action would help those on the beach. I’m NOT saying this would be anywhere close to as successful as what the allies pulled off in D-day. But the German paratroopers were considered an elite unit. 2) it’s incredible to me that a military so used to war gaming and writing up detail, researched plans as the Germans do, that Sea Wolf was the best idea they had.
Which paratroopers? The 4,500 which were all that were left after losses earlier in 1940? Transported by the 226 operational transport aircraft which, were similarly, the survivors from earlier events?
Which troops on the beach? How would they get there? In towed, largely unescorted, barges? Good luck with that?
Hitler could have destroyed the Dunkirk evacuation and then easily flogged the Poms at home. Mistake was fighting a war on two fronts.
Nonsense. The Luftwaffe totally failed to prevent Dynamo. Even if it had, unless there was political change in Britain, how would the Germans have 'flogged' (whatever that even means) the British.
First rule of amphibious operations. Have a strong navy. The Germans didn't.
The Royal Navy had to sink the French fleet as no doubt the Germans would of seized it and evened the odds. Why the French Navy didnt sail to Britain after the fall of France is beyond me
If there would have been sufficient amphibious support Britain would have crumbled
Just as if I had been born in 17th Century Bohemia, I might have been Holy Roman Emperor.
Germany never had any amphibious capability.
This isn't Mike's channel, is it?
The problem for the French army was interference by French politicians who, amongst other things, insisted on all orders being in a written form and not just radio messages. This was because they feared a coop by the French army. So the French general fighting the Germans would have to send a dispatch rider to the army HQ just outside of Paris and then wait for a reply. A three day round trip.
The problem for the German navy was that the invasions of Denmark and Norway had cost them half of their surface fleet. And co-ordination between the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine was so poor at this time that the Luftwaffe mistakenly attack several Kriegsmarine ships out in the North Sea thinking they were British.
The other thing to remember is that part of the British defence plan was to pump oil onto the sea and set fire to it. So all those German troops getting into the surf and removing their backpacks and lifejackets would have done so while on fire.
The Sea Loin that wasn't as far fecht as they say. If Hitler had the courage and with good sense he could mastered a reliable invasion of UK even he did't destroy the enterity of RAF (an unrealiustic objective).
Without assault ships, or a serious fleet? Towed barges crossing the Channel in the face of a navy the size of the RN? Be serious.
This,is,when,duke,windsor
And,his,mates,may,have,came,out
He made ze tommies rather nervous though....
I recognize that voice....
I think it was on. . When on way over channel UK set fire to channel. ..
My friend Mike Brady is suddenly "Michael Brady". Nothing makes sense anymore!
Oh shiznit!
Germany lost WW2 because they didn't have enough fuel for their airplanes, tanks, boats.
They lost it due to a combination of different things and that being one of them.
Couldn't concentrate on this due to the annoying narration!!
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The UK and France were under treaty after WW1 to go to war with Germany if it were to invade Poland. Germany invaded Poland along with the Soviet Union. Germany wanted to retake lands on its French side that had much German people in them, but did not want to take over France and the UK, but; nevertheless, the UK and France declared war on Germany putting themselves in a war they could not win. It was the US that kept the UK supplied and able to act as staging ground to retake France. The UK was entirely dependent on the US. The US came in too late in the war and placed its troops too far from Germany in Normandy France to change the out come of the war. The main war was on the Russian front. The goal of Germany was to grow its lands to the east and turn slavic peoples into colonized persons with few rights, hence why Russian's describe the Ukraine government and military being largely composed of Nazi's.
It was Canada who never get a mention.
@@mikemines2931 As well as UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates..
The Canadians tend to be overlooked in most accounts of WW2 because their uniforms were very similar to those used by the British, especially in black & white photographs and films. In general it’s Americans who think that. An American was quoted as saying ‘Canada was so lucky to miss the two big ones.”.
@@mikefraser4513 It wasn't only the poor of the world that came in through Ellis Island but ignorance as well.
Great video, although be careful of the use of the Royal Navy Flag, when talking about the RAF. Of course, the fleet air Arm did, provide air defence to the UK, but the whole air defence of the UK was orchestrated by the RAF. 👍
Food for the algorithm
Well done Mike!
Great show