British counterintelligence has opened documents that describe Hitler's plan to seize Great Britain. According to the Fuehrer's plan, German soldiers were supposed to penetrate the territory of the kingdom, disguised in the military uniform of the British army.
The British state archbishop has declassified the protocol of the interrogation of the German soldier Werner Janowski, which describes in detail the plan to seize Great Britain. According to this plan, German soldiers were to deceived into the territory of Great Britain, disguised in British military uniforms, the British television and radio corporation BBC reported on Thursday.
The main attack was to undergo the major British port of Dover, German troops were also to land along the entire southern coast, as well as in Scotland and southern Ireland, Interfax reports.
This plan was never put into effect. Hitler decided to abandon it, since the German aircraft were unable to defeat the British Royal Air Force, and without the advantage in the air, the German troops were too vulnerable.
Nevertheless, the Wehrmacht soldiers practiced the tactics of landing on the beaches of France in September-October 1940. If the landing of German soldiers in Great Britain took place, then, according to expert opinions cited by the BBC, it could completely change the course of World War II.
"Around the World" says that the leadership of British intelligence tried to predict the steps of Adolf Hitler during World War II by studying his horoscope. The staff astrologer of the special services was named Ludwig von Wohl. A Hungarian, born in Berlin, he argued that Hitler's military plans were based on the predictions of the Fuehrer's personal astrologer, the Swiss Karl Ernst Krafft. Von Wohl's plan was to give the British intelligence services a forecast similar to Hitler's. Thus, one could partly predict Hitler's military plans and build their own military plans based on more complete information.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Great Britain was predominantly a naval power with a powerful navy, but since 1938, the main attention was paid to the development of aviation, which was tasked with defending the country from the air. By the beginning of World War II, there were 78 squadrons in the metropolis (1456 combat aircraft, of which 536 were bombers), most of the fleet was made up of modern machines.
On the eve of the war, the general staffs of England and France agreed on some issues of cooperation in the event of a war with Germany and Italy.
On September 1, 1939, Germany attacked Poland. On the same day, the Chamberlain government sent a note of protest to Germany, followed by an ultimatum on September 3, followed by a declaration of war on Germany. However, all the time while the German troops were engaged in the East, in operations against Poland, the allied Anglo-French troops did not undertake any active hostilities on land and in the air. And the rapid defeat of Poland made the time period during which it was possible to force Germany to fight on two fronts very short.
As a result, the British Expeditionary Force of 10 divisions, deployed to France from September 1939 to February 1940, was inactive. In the American press, this period was called "The Strange War". The German commander A. Jodl later stated: "If we were not defeated in 1939, it was only because about 110 French and British divisions that stood in the West during our war with Poland against 23 German divisions were absolutely inactive."
At the same time, hostilities at sea began immediately after the declaration of war. Already on September 3, the British passenger steamer Athenia was torpedoed and sank. On September 5 and 6, the ships "Bosnia", "Royal Setr" and "Rio Claro" were sunk off the coast of Spain. Great Britain had to introduce escorting ships.
On October 14, 1939, a German submarine commanded by Captain Prine sank the British battleship Royal Oak, which was docked at the Scapa Flow naval base. Soon, the actions of the German navy and air force threatened international trade and the very existence of Great Britain.
