Why didnt hitler invade england?

Well for a start off he couldn't gain air superiority, Goering told Hitler that the RAF would be defeated in three months but he failed miserably, and when the RAF bombed Berlin, Hitler concentrated all attacks on London, which gave the British factories chance to build more aircraft at a much faster pace.

The Germans could not quite get to grips with radar technology, Luftwaffe pilots were always mystified as to why when they got over Britain the RAF was always there waiting for them.

A very frustrated Goering allegedly asked his top fighter ace what he wanted to defeat the RAF and the response was " A squadron of Spitfires"

Germany would have defeated Britain if it had of invaded (eventually) but not in hour as some other d1ck head has just said, the Germans would have lost many many troops getting over that channel, the Brits had fuel lines set all along the coast to set the bastards on fire as they approached!!!

Hitler had some affection for the Brits, or has he put it '' they are not our natural enemy" possibly because of the Saxon heritage, but he hadn't encountered the resolve of the British people and Winston Churchill!!!

Luckily for the free world Britain held on by the skin of its teeth, until the Americans finally woke up!!!

Hitler could no longer even defeat and triumph over the British, they kicked his *** interior the conflict of england and that they've been pumping out great technologies on the time quite some innovations got here from the British for the duration of that element era specificaly as a results of Nazi. What makes you think of he could have taken the U. S.? if he could no longer take a smaller usa like England whether Russia hadn't stepped in Hitler replaced into already dropping what the Russians did replaced into the nail interior the coffin. Noone can ever triumph over lots without dropping interior the tip, historic previous has shown this time and time back all Empires have failed.

In 1940 when the NAZIs were taking over every Western European nation through Blitzkrieg and sanctions Hitler was not forming the military plans or strategies as of yet. Unlike Josef Stalin he was leaving it up to his military leaders early in the war. With the lightning fast invasions of Poland, France, Belgium, Norway and Sweden Hitler knew his forces were spread very thin and his bigger fear than England was Russia. After nearly annihilating the British forces at Dunkirk Hitler felt that England was isolated as an Island nation. Hitler had his allies in Italy and Spain to help isolate the island nation of Britain and his expectations of the Japanese campaign in Indonesia, especially in the British colonies Hitler knew England would not be in any shape to have the capacity to stop him from his true goal, the invasion of the oil rich Russian caucuses even with the help of the Crippled USA who already had a 2 front war.

Hitlers "Bonehead" mistake was underestimating the British resolve and the American industrial might. Keep in mind, Hitler never intended to include Western Europe in his 1000 year Reich but only to control those nations with a new society, a Euro society. Hitlers dream was to have his Reich cover the entire Eastern Europe continent including his arch rival.....Russia. By creating a Euro society within his Reich and controlling all of Eastern Europe and Russia he would essentially have complete domination of the world markets and resources therefore his dream of a world dictatorship would have come true.

Hitler made the same big mistake as most conquerors throughout history made. His German national socialist party's regression to former Prussian style regime and imperial ambitions had spurred Germany out of the economic and psychological depression it suffered even more than the rest of the world.

The western world wondered at the rapid elevation of Germany while they still wallowed in the destruction from overpopulating. Real wages and prices had been undercut too much by the rapid population expansion outpacing contemporary technology. The quick improvement revitalized stereotypical German resolve and arrogance.

As it renewed the traditional campaigns for expansion room advancing technology and tactics made quick work of its conquests. However like so many rapid territorial expansions in history these new German conquerors said: "That was easy, lets take all we can."

Britain was on the plan of course, but Hitler hesitated for two reasons. He correctly saw the English in particular as Germanic cousins. He didn't want a damaging battle between Germans and also knew the stoic English would stand and fight very fiercely. With the help of notoriously fierce Scots and possibly the raging Irish, he worried he would loose too many soldiers even if enough got by the powerful British Navy.

Barbarossa I understand began as a plan to take Romanian oil fields but Stalin put all his forces along the borders facing Germany. A defecting Soviet intelligence officer claims that was bait for Hitler to assume the Soviet Union would begin moving against him. He took the bait and initiated an attack before they could.

The rest is history. The Russians played him the same way they played Napoleon and were smart to do that. Hitler was a German version of Napoleon. They drew his army ever eastward until they were mired in the devastating Russian winter on the vast open steps. His army froze and died just like Napoleon's froze.

You are correct that he should have continued to siege Britain until they starved and surrendered while bargaining with the Soviets for oil, but I suspect by then he and Germany were so pumped up they thought they were invincible.

PS: Looking back shows German intelligence gathering was very poor compared particularly to the British. They, or perhaps just Hitler, were suckered many times right to the end of war. However the British had many French and Polish people very willing to supply information from behind German lines. I doubt the Germans had many people willing to help them, including most Vichy French. They were just trying to hang onto something. Most would turn on the Germans at the first chance.

In order to invade England, Hitler felt he had to bomb Britain into submission before he could drop more of his troops to storm the beaches there. However, his air forces was defeated in the Battle of Britain by the RAF and because of it, he chose to bomb Britain from the air for almost a year called the Blitz. Throwing in more troops while not bombing Britain would have cost many German military lives and overrall, it would not be successful.

Hitler was going to invade England -- operation Sea Lion -- but changed his strategy.

". . . The problems of an invasion were known to all three branches of the German military:

Control of the Channel would be needed

Control of the skies would be needed

Good weather would be needed

However, for all of the work done by the military on a projected invasion of Britain, it seems that Hitler had little enthusiasm for it."

Does he issue the Wehrmacht with water wings? Because the reason he didn't invade the UK (which he intended to do) was because he couldn't - he didn't have the naval forces, his air forces were not strong enough to defeat the RAF in a battle to the death, and he didn't have the sealift to safely transport those troops and then keep them supplied.

The assault troops were to be ferried across the Channel in river barges - all you have to do to sink those is sail close to them with a destroyer, and let your wake capsize the barge. That's assuming they don't capsize purely from the weather first. The Royal Navy would have gladly taken horrific losses to stop an invasion - they did so to keep Malta supplied and to try and hold Crete, they'll certainly do everything to prevent an invasion of their homes.

Given how small the Kriegsmarine was (one battleships, two battlecruisers, two pre-dreadnought battleships, several heavy cruisers), it'd be totally overwhelmed by the RN (13 battleships, 13 heavy cruisers, six aircraft carriers)

They could not get air superiority. That was the point of the Battle of Britain. Bombing was never going to work and the Battle of the Atlantic was won by the allies. Peace was never on the table once Winston had control and rightly so.

If Hitler took enough troops to invade England away from the frontline the allied forced would have won in an hour.

If he had waited until the V-2 and atomic bomb were completed, things would be different today.

Not saying this as in agreement with his actions of genocide, or conquest. Just stating facts.