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Originally Posted by Lancer44
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Originally Posted by Jim O
One thing is for certain, at least at that time, Hitler did not like to engage in battles that he did not believe that could he win.
That leads me to conclude that he was never very serious about Sealion in the first place and that it was mostly a ploy to get Churchill out of the war. ]
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Jim, this line from your post almost hit me in my head... I think this is worth starting another thread. Look at this - in late 1940 Hitler shows really that he can think and postponed Sea Lion.
As you said he launched Barbarossa 8 month later counting end of BofB till 22 of June 1941. Was he the same men?
Looking at figures only, Barbarossa was more crazy in long run then Sea Lion...
What nearly all historians want us to believe is that Germany had no intelligence, that Abwehr was totally blind, that Hitler launched Barbarossa without clearly defined objectives...
Something doesn't fit here...
See ya in next thread!
Cheers,
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Sounds good. Your idea...run with it.
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Originally Posted by Klaus
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Klaus,
I read that document just now. Some of it was pure fantasy. As if the British would have left their home undefended by ships because of the Italian Navy! And the idea of laying mines is also not realistic given the information presented in the article that I originally posted, that is "The British in 1940 had fifty-two minesweepers, plus sixteen minesweeping trawlers in home waters. The Germans had just four minelayers with their western fleet." Hitler had to know the latter fact, and his intelligence must have had at least some idea of the former. So again, it leads me to conclude it was never a serious idea in the first place.