> I bring up my posting of May 1 in the "About Sealion" thread. If a
> unit had been created and trained, ie the maximum forethought about
> England and its vulnerability, would it have made any difference,
> other than getting a lot of people killed in June 1940 that died
> later? By May 25th the Germans would have known the British were
> trapped in Dunkirque.
>
> "From Warlimont's diaries there was no throught about invading England
> until near the end of the Dunkirque operation. The Kreigsmarine was
> planning in November 1939 but without any connection to anyone else.
> On June 25, 1940 section L had held meetings in a farmhouse at Rodert
> in which the idea of letting France be bypassed and a direct invasion
> following the defeated British across the channel. It was raised and
> dropped.
>
> A phantom WI, ie one that would never have happened, would require a
> belief that the German armies would be as successful as they were in
> 1940, something Warlimont even Hitler didn't believe. A designated
> unit with transport sufficient to get into an English port and secure
> an area with port facilities and a landing field would have had a
> better chance than all of the stuff planned for Sealion later."