Files reveal Nazi invasion plans
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Newly declassified files have
revealed Dover would have been the Nazis main starting point
for an invasion - if they’d won the Battle of Britain.
The secret wartime documents -
released today by the National Archives - show details of Operation
Sea Lion as told by a German spy after the war.
According to Corporal Werner Janowski,
storm troopers would have overrun the port and used it to ferry
over enemy troops to invade Britain.
Adolf Hitler abandoned the plan
after losing the Battle of Britain because his invasion force
wouldn't have air protection.
But Cpl Janowski, who worked for the German Intelligence
Service, the Abwehr, said if it had gone ahead Dover would
have been bombed from the air before it was stormed by Germans.
Then he told MI5 interrogators: "Having effected a landing
they would proceed along the cliffs to a point outside Dover where
there were steps leading down to the beach and from this point they
were to continue along the beach.
"They would regain the cliff head by means of some steps near
Dover station and then pass alongside the railway station and take
possession of three docks on which were gun emplacements.
"They would then signal to Luftwaffe that the docks were in
their possession."
Thursday, August 26 2010
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