Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion[2][3] (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe), was Nazi Germany 's code name for their planned invasion of the United Kingdom. It was to have taken place during the Battle of Britain, nine months after the start of the Second World War.

German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime ...

Imperial German plans for the invasion of the United Kingdom were first conceived in 1897 by Admiral Eduard von Knorr, commander of the Imperial German Navy, against a background of increasing Anglo-German rivalry and German naval expansion.

2015年2月24日 · As the shadow of Nazism spread across Europe, London rapidly became the centre of the continent’s fight for freedom. And throughout the war the capital served as an adopted home to no fewer than...

2021年7月11日 · New details have emerged in recent months about the exact plans for Operation Sealion, Nazi Germany’s scheme to invade England, overwhelm defenses south of London, and install the then-Duke of Windsor as the new, pro-German king of England.

2011年6月21日 · The remaining German forces, located around the Medway and on the Thames estuary, would then thrust towards London - the ultimate target of the invasion force.

Starting on 7 September 1940, London faced 57 straight nights of bombing by Nazi Germany, part of a concentrated eight-month campaign known as the Blitz. London's docks on fire on 7 September 1940, known as Black Saturday. When the Second World War erupted in Europe in 1939, the battlefields seemed a long way from London.

2011年3月30日 · The sustained German bombing of London and other major British cities began towards the end of the Battle of Britain, after a British raid on Berlin in early September prompted Hitler to order...

2015年3月10日 · Throughout late 1943, the Nazi Reichsmarschall lobbied Hitler to direct the Third Reich’s dwindling bomber force to undertake massive retaliatory strikes on London. By pounding the enemy capital to dust, he argued, the Allies would be deterred from future raids on German cities for fear of reprisals.

The air attacks, intended to prepare the way for a German invasion, were directed against British ports and RAF bases. In September 1940 the attacks turned to London and other cities in a “blitz” of bombings for 57 consecutive nights, which was followed by intermittent raids until April 1941.