syscom:
I do agree the possibilities for Germany to carry on with an invasion of Britain in 1940 were marginal to say the least.
The point is -and yes Mr. Hunter368, you can laugh as much as you desire-, there is evidence enough to suggest Germany did not really intend to invade much less occupy the British island.
I do not care if Hitler hired an architect to have his personal palace designed in London once Buckingham got flattened.
First off, what of Germany´s oficial peace offering? Please, tell me of the arguments you have to dismiss this first point off hand.
Hitler´s fundamental obssesion was the soviet union. He wanted to put as much pressure as possible on the British to perhaps force a peace agreement to then switch east as soon as possible.
Occupying England? Whatever the number of divisions necessary to achieve such task, Hitler feared seeing his military getting scattered across Europe. The most concetrated blow was to strike the soviets.
He carried on with what appeared as a feasible venture, an air campaign -Battle of Britain-, which proved of course futile.
It is clear the industrial might of the US, combined with that of the Brits produced the massive armada which stormed the Normandy beaches in 1944.
Conditions for each period were quite different however. The Allies required that kind of massive deployment for they were going to face a tough enemy, that although over stretched had very powerful units in the order of battle (Panzer Lehr, 21 Pz. Div, 12 SS.Pz.Div, 116 Pz. Div, the SS s.Pz.Abt., etc.).
Do not get me wrong mr syscom, this ain´t an issue where I´ll say I am knowledged, but if i recall correctly, even with the massive assault of june 1944, the allies always progressed embarrasingly behind the projected timeframes for advancing in the continent.
Germany, in 1940, in the nearly impossible event of an invasion of England would have faced an entirely different foe: an army which had lost the bulk of its equipment and material in the battle where they had just been battered.
Mr. Evangilder:
I have no room to talk there? So you are suggesting that just like Plan_D does virtually on a daily basis with many members, also I conduct my own rampages insulting people and launching groundless acussations?
Read very well what he said to me there; it was pretty much like "you downplay the fierce defensive effort of the British people". He does not know me to launch such acussation.
Please do not confuse disliking the ideas of someone (disagreeing) with being unnecessarily cyberaggressive and insulting.
Had any member posted the very same comment you just directed to me there, the exact phrase having Plan_D as the receiver, I am sure you can figure out the kind of vocabulary and "attitude" would come from him as response.