Operation Sea Lion
Judging from the current map, aside from Western Europe and the Balkan Peninsula, where war was already underway, and Eastern Europe, which remained neutral, the German-Italian Group had already occupied almost the entirety of Europe.
After taking the whole of the three Nordic countries, the German Government was brimming with confidence and morale, utterly assured about the wars to come.
Which country should they wage war against next?
The German Prime Minister studied the map of Europe for a long time. Finally, amid the astonished gazes of the generals, he pointed toward that enormous island nation in northwestern Europe: the United Kingdom.
That was right. Germany planned to launch a direct attack on the United Kingdom, snuffing out the flames of France's determined resistance to Germany.
In the German Prime Minister's own words: "France's hope lies with the United Kingdom. Without British support, France should have surrendered long ago.
France had already fallen, but now they have risen again. So long as the British continue to provide France with aid, those French people who cannot see the situation clearly will remain agitated and continue fighting this war.
But if the United Kingdom is destroyed, France will lose all hope. At that point, Germany will become the master of all Europe and the Balkans. Therefore, we must destroy the United Kingdom.
Everyone, the time has come. Let us end this war, draw the flames of war in Europe toward the British Isles, and destroy the culprit that has dominated and balanced Europe for nearly a century!"
If Germany had previously placed its hopes on Britain seeing the situation clearly and proposing peace, then Germany now regarded Britain as its greatest enemy and was determined to defeat it with everything it had.
The German Government also understood all too