Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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26 August 2010
11:2267226Newly declassified release from the National Archives today reveals the German invasion plan of 1940 and how Dover would have been secured as a beach-head prior to the main landing. The plan was the railway station would have been siezed by German troops wearing British uniforms - real 'The Eagle Has Landed' stuff.
If anyone is interested, here is the link to the free Archive download. You'll find the (rather sketchy) German plans on pages 32 and 33.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=8571705Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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26 August 2010
11:4267228Do we think Cllr Goodwin wouldn't have seen through the uniforms? John can spot a Nazi a mile off.......
True friends stab you in the front.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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26 August 2010
12:0467232sneaky lot those germans not surprised at that plan.
would have been a lot easier for them on landing to put some sunbeds down.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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26 August 2010
13:2867237Interesting stuff, pity they do not include the photographs refered to.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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26 August 2010
13:3167239Andy you are right I would have said where you from,and if they said Berlin or Hamburg or Munich I would have known they were Germans
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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26 August 2010
13:3367243that is why you are a councillor and the rest of us are just plebs john.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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26 August 2010
13:3467244Saw some of the German aerial recon photographs on eBay recently ..... too much ££ for me though
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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26 August 2010
15:3767269what sort of dosh are we speaking of paul?
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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26 August 2010
15:5267270Linked from another site i watched a channel 4 prog called the real home guard now youtube, when RMAS staged a war-game based on the papers and plans of operation sea lion. Included were the German officers responsible for the planning. Quite surprised to find the invasion would have failed.
beer the food of the gods
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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26 August 2010
16:5467273Interesting reading, but as mentioned above John would have spotted them from the off
26 August 2010
17:1967274I think their sqaure heads would have been a clue for John too.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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26 August 2010
17:2167275also the little tashes and the Iron Crosses,and the goose stepping,and the signs on their tanks,see I am quite bright.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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26 August 2010
19:1867282Oh! I just saw Jon Iverson on the news discussing this very issue.
Sealion would probably never have worked. The Germans had too few landing craft and would have been reliant on totally unsuitable Rhine barges towed by slow moving tugs. Any form of heavy swell and they'd be a goner. With the RAF having air superiority (just) and the Royal Navy hugely outnumbering the German Navy, any invasion force would have been decimated before it even reached the shore.
Even if the Germans had somehow landed, the cross-channel supply lines would have to be maintained, again with the RN to challenge it. Every single available soldier including those who were camped in the SE having recently returned from Dunkirk would have been here to challenge them if they had landed.
It was a pipe dream, thank goodness.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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26 August 2010
19:2367284my understanding was that the plan would only have come into effect if the away side had won the battle of britain.
the home side had planned ahead anyway, if we had been invaded and taken over there was a massive fuel dump in the langdon cliffs ready for when we returned and tipped them off of thir sunbeds.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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26 August 2010
19:2767285Could have strapped bombs to seagulls too Howard. (And no, that's not a real suggestion, dear concerned readers).
26 August 2010
21:0767306But you are all missing the most salient point. In 1940 DHB only had a couple of cranes to get vehicles off ships. It would have taken a month of Sundays to get them all unloaded and ready for the assault. I'm sure Mr Churchill would have thought of some wheeze to thwart them, or more probably, the unions would have called a strike at the sight of all those blacklegs coming ashore.