Why didn't Hitler invade England?

Answer 1

Before the Germans could invade, they needed to gain air superiority. On 8th August 1940, the Luftwaffe launched about 1,500 attacks per day but ere eventually defeated in what became known as the Battle of Britain.

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Answer 2

Germany Invades England

Answer 3

Although there was talk of Operation Sealion- the truth was invasion was not really a viable option.

Hitler's real goal was Lebhenshraum- living space for the Aryan race in Eastern Europe. Compared to this Britain was a distraction- one which could not simply be brushed aside via a Blitzkrieg.

The real plan for Britain was one of strangulation- the capture of colonies and its supply routes in conjunction with Japan and Italy, and the cutting off of supplies via the U boat menace. Without supplies Britain would be forced to give up the war.

After the Luftwaffe made its great mistake and stopped attacking the RAF directly in favour of attacks on London- the slim chance of getting air superiority, then naval supremacy then enough spare troops to occupy Britain was spirited away.

Answer 4

Britain was heavily defended. Britain had the largest Navy in the world. Germany's Navy was no match for Britain's. Hitler had NO fleet to invade the UK. Operation Sea lion was cancelled after the Battle of Britain at the relief of Germany's Military leaders who didn't think it was possible for Germany to successfully invade the UK.

Answer 5

When Hitler attacked Poland he never expected that the governments of France and Great Britain would honour their treaty with Poland and declare war on him because of their previous appeasement over his activities in Czechoslovakia.
He was an admirer of the British Empire and many influential people in British society admired him e.g. the Duke of Windsor.
His ambition was to build a similar empire for Germany on the British lines but taking the Slavic lands to the east.
When he had to eventually fight the French and British he was caught off balance by the quick success of his army and had no plans or equipment in place to invade Great Britain.
The only plan he had was to bomb the British into submission but, after the fall of France, Churchill had beeen appointed Prime Minister and he was determined not to surrender.
This campaign was a failure due to the resistance of the RAF and the threat of invasion receded as the summer of 1940 passed into winter when the weather would have been unsuitable.
In 1941 he was impatient to proceed with his long term plan of invading the Soviet Union and his Deputy , Rudolf Hess , flew to Great Britain early in that year to try to negociate the withdrawal of the British from the war with Nazi sympathisers among the aristocracy e.g. the Duke of Hamilton on whose estate he was supposed to land.
This mission went badly wrong when he got lost and ran out of fuel having to bale out over Scotland where he was arrested by the police and spent the rest of his life in prison.
Once the German invasion of the Soviet Union began in the summer of 1941, Great Britain was safe from invasion as the germans used most of their forces and material in the race to get to Moscow before the winter.

Answer 6

The RAF plain and simple

Without dominance of the air, any invasion would have been a disaster. The battle of Britain was an air war where the Luftwaffe tried to destroy the RAF as a precursor to the land invasion.

Since it failed, no invasion

Answer 7

The English Channel prevented it.

Constant bombing and rocket attacks almost broke the spirit but he had no amphibious attack machines to make a troop invasion work. Instead he concentrated on Russia.

Answer 8

no your all wrong...sure Hilter lauched missles and did bombing raids...these were merely scare tattics..

Hitler actually respected England..he tried twice to make a secret peace treaty with them..
Basically Hilter wanted an empire..he admried the british empire so much that he wished to copy it..

Hilter never ever wanted to fight a war on two fronts...this is why he never really invaded england..

Answer 9

Everyone's answers seem to be running along the same lines, and most are true, but they are all missing a key point. Hitler believed in cosmology and reading the stars to see the future, etc. He had an aid that was an astronomer that would read the stars for him, and the aid advised him to not invade England because it was in the stars that he would lose.

Answer 10

The Royal Navy. It was intact, and would have caused havoc in any invasion fleet.