Did Hitler ever plan to conquer Britain besides air assaults?

Question

I am asking with respect to the strength of the troops he deployed in such amphibious landing.

Answer 1

He never launched a naval assault but one was long planned.

Answer 2

There was a plan to invade Britain. It centered around gaining air superiority first, followed by a combined amphibous and airborne assault to secure a port. Once a port was secured, the armor and other heavy forces would be transferred over by ship.

However, the Battle of Britain was the first step of this plan. And this battle did not go as planned for Germany. First because the British put up a stiffer resistance than expected. Secondly, the British made it personal by bombing Berlin. This caused Hitler to abandon the sound plan of attack the RAF directly and instead attacking London. This gave the RAF time to recover and the Germans never did gain air superiority. Invasion plans were postponed indefinitely and Germany invaded Russia instead.

Answer 3

Yes - it was referred to as "Operation Sea Lion."
The general idea was that Goerring's Luftwaffe was to "soften up" England to the point where a land invasion would be a piece of cake, hence, Churchill's famous quote: "...Never in history have so many owed so much to so few...". He was, of course, referring to the RAF who turned back the Luftwaffe while taking tremendous losses.
Goerring, obviously, didn't succeed and, in the interim, Hitler started "Operation Barbarossa" bringing the Soviet Union in leaving him with a two-front War.
Had he not invaded Russia nor had the British fliers not been succesful in defeating the Luftwaffe - we would be living in a different World. Had Hitler concentrated on England and not gotten involved with the Russians it is VERY possible that the Germans would have made a successful invasion of England proper - not just the Channel Islands He split his forces across a Continent allowing us to get our act together and eventually attack Germany from both sides and be victorious.

Answer 4

Hitler planned to conquer the world. He probably would have been successful if he had utilized a more strategic onslaught of his available resources and timed the onslaught more efficiently. He was very intelligent but was foolish in the manner in which he used his intelligence.

Answer 5

A good reference that will answer your question with clarity and in detail is William Shirers' book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He devotes an entire chapter to Hitler's plans for the invasion of Great Britain.

Answer 6

The air assaults were to gain air superiority. This was to allow Hitler to destroy the British navy from above, clearing the way for an invasion. Operation Sealion was a failure, but an invasion was planned once Goering's promised "total victory" was to be won.

Answer 7

For a short time he accumulated barges in French ports with a view to a seaborne invasion of the English south coast but his failure to defeat the RAF and the strength of the Royal Navy meant that he had to abandon this idea.

Answer 8

He never launched a naval assault but one was long planned. The course of the war, especially the commitment of troops to the Russian Front, eventually made this impractical.

Answer 9

Yes. There is still debate as to how serious the planning was, and whether it could ever have succeeded.

Search for "Operation Sealion"
There are so many websites and books, I hesitate to recommend one.
Perhaps start with Wikipedia, don't trust it completely, and cross-check elsewhere would be a good approach.

Answer 10

Yep but he committed the cardinal sin (apart from all the other atrocities) he opened a war on 2 fronts - against Britain and Russia at the same time. then the states came into it and the rest well....is history.