MICHAEL WALSH AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN. From June 1941 onward the possibility of a German invasion of England had all but vanished. Another press-promoted lie was that Ireland faced a serious threat of invasion by Germany. In fact, Germany’s twice-elected (1933 and 1936) German Chancellor never contemplated invading the British Isles. Adolf Hitler actually admired the British Empire, with its inherent presumption of a largely benign world order.

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We know from the diaries of the then British Foreign Minister Lord Halifax that Hitler offered peace terms that did not involve German control of Britain. The unelected half-American warlord Winston Churchill refused to allow these terms to be read to the cabinet. They remain concealed under the 100-year rule. Instead, Winston Churchill’s determination to keep Britain at war turned what had been merely a continental defeat of its army into the enduring myth that in 1940 Britain faced a war for national survival.

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But the German naval leader, Admiral Erich Raeder had repeatedly forbidden his staff from planning an invasion of Britain. And far from wanting to continue the war. In June 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered 20pc of the Reich’s armies to be demobilized in order to get the German economy going again. The ‘invasion fleet’ that the Reich began to assemble that summer was no more capable of invading Britain than it was of overrunning the South Sea Islands or Hawaii. It was war by illusion. Its purpose was to get the British to the negotiating table.

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This so-called invasion ‘fleet’ consisted of 1,900 canal barges only one-third of which were powered. These would need to be towed across the treacherous tidal flowing English Channel in clusters of three by just 380 tugs. These barges had tiny keels, blunt prows and small rudders, with just two feet of freeboard – the distance between the water and the top of the hull.

These craft would have been swamped during a crossing of the English Channel which is a shallow and violent waterway linking the North Sea and Atlantic. But an invasion would not be direct. The barges with their untrained crews would be able to make only about three knots (walking speed) from the three imaginary ‘invasion’ centres: Rotterdam, Le Havre and Boulogne.

These ports from any English south-coast landing beaches are respectively 200 miles and 60 hours, 100 miles and 30 hours, and 50 miles and 15 hours each carrying seasick soldiers crammed into keel-less floundering barges without toilets or water. What army would be fit to fight after a journey like that? And then there are the 55,000 horses that the Wehrmacht would need: its transport was still not mechanized.

All being well, and that really is a relative term, the first wave would take 10 days to land, with the barges plying to and from those three distant ports. The barges movement would require tides that would have to obey the demands of the Fuehrer rather than the older ones of the sea. The barges would travel in convoy and always without navigation lights.

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Why no lights in the pitch-dark treacherous seas surrounding England? Ah: the Royal Navy. This is where matters become quite phantasmagorical. In August 1940, the British Home Fleet alone consisted of 140 destroyers, 40 cruisers and frigates, five battleships and two aircraft carriers. Worldwide, the Royal Navy could count on 1,400 active vessels. Today, the total number is 70 ships.

The German navy, the Kriegsmarine, consisted of just seven destroyers, one cruiser with unreliable engines, two working cruisers, no aircraft carriers, and no battleships or battlecruisers: the Bismarck and Tirpitz were still building, and the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst were damaged and out of action until the following winter.

What about the Luftwaffe? Well, it had no torpedo-carrying aircraft, whereas the British had two (the Beaufort and the Swordfish, both of which were later to show their mettle in disabling German capital ships), and air-bombing vigorously defended warships accurately over an open sea is incredibly difficult, even for dive-bombers. The Stuka’s bomb sights were calibrated for stationary targets. All right, but were not British shores defenseless in 1940? No, aside from a largely intact British army, two fully-equipped Canadian divisions arrived that summer as did 200,000 rifles from the United States.

Just about everything that people believed about Hitler’s intentions towards Britain in 1940, and which they still believe today was a myth created by the unelected Winston Churchill, a serial military blunderer Winston Churchill. Consider all the facts above, and then consider how that myth has endured, despite its quirkiness. As Friedrich Nietzsche surmised: ‘People don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.’ (NOTE: This story was one of the scores published in The All Lies Invasion, Michael Walsh, and immediately removed by Amazon and LULU). PLEASE SHARE STORIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA