Sealion Triumphant

Sheldon Markland

Sheldon Markland

Operation Sealion succeeds in 1940. The Einsatzgruppen are released into Britain. Who are to be arrested? I.E. Winston Churchill?

Sources: McNab (2009). Other sources would be extremely appreciated.
 

Cryhavoc101

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Ahh yes of course Noel Coward was famously listed in the Black Book

"If anyone had told me at that time I was high up on the Nazi blacklist, I should have laughed ... I remember Rebecca West, who was one of the many who shared the honour with me, sent me a telegram which read: 'My dear – the people we should have been seen dead with' "
 
Cook

Cook

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Sheldon Markland said:
Operation Sealion succeeds in 1940. The Einsatzgruppen are released into Britain. Who are to be arrested? I.E. Winston Churchill?

Sources: McNab (2009). Other sources would be extremely appreciated.
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Okay, firstly, you have broken the cardinal rule of AH.com: Thou Shalt Not Mention the Unmentionable Sea Mammal.

Secondly, the arrest list for the UK can be found here:

https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/hitlers-black-book
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/the-black-book
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Black_Book

Cryhavoc101 said:
'My dear – the people we should have been seen dead with' "
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Ironically several names on the list were already dead, including Lytton Strachey, who died the year before Hitler came to power in Germany, fully eight years before the Battle of Britain; so much for ruthless Teutonic efficiency.
 
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Ironically several names on the list were already dead, including Lytton Strachey, who died the year before Hitler came to power in Germany, fully eight years before the Battle of Britain; so much for ruthless Teutonic efficiency.
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Also including Sidney Reilly, who was probably dead. Though there's some excuse for including him.
 
Cook

Cook

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catsmate1 said:
Also including Sidney Reilly, who was probably dead. Though there's some excuse for including him.
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Ah yes, Mr Reilly, holder of the British Empire's Hide-and-Seek trophy from 1925 until 1974 when he lost it to the current holder of the title, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan.
 
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Cymraeg

Cymraeg

Sheldon Markland said:
Mea Culpa... The POD or whatever :) any academical sources apart from the aforementioned examples?
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There are many problems with the USM (or Pinnipid of Doom), not least being the fact that you need a point of departure that dates back to the First World War or even earlier. As it stood in our timeline the proposed operation had so many points of weakness (a very weak Kriegsmarine after Norway, a Luftwaffe led by a functional drug addict that would have been trying to perform at least three roles, no agreement on where to land, tanks that would have ground to a halt in shingle, a possible week between followup waves, no life preservers after the first wave, use of Rhine barges in the Channel, the presence of a Royal Navy going insane with glee at such a target-rich environment) that you’d need substantial changes in the pre-war period to make it even partially work.
 

Tallil2long

Of course the British were concerned about a possible invasion. But they didn't have the level of information that we have, regarding actual German capabilities and limitations.

Thus, contemporary measures like the signpost removal speak only to British concerns, not to the actual likelihood of a successful German invasion.
 
Sheldon Markland

Sheldon Markland

Would the British surrender if London were captured or move to a second city? Manchester, Birmingham..? Would Churchill resign? Oswald Mosely puppet PM?
 
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