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Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion ((ドイツ語:Unternehmen Seelöwe)) was Nazi Germany's code name for a provisionally proposed invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France the Nazis expected the British to seek a peace agreement, and invasion was considered as a last resort if other options failed. As a precondition, the proposed operation required both air and naval superiority over the English Channel and proposed landing sites, neither of which the Germans ever achieved during the war. A large number of barges were adapted as the proposed invasion fleet, but Sea Lion was postponed indefinitely on 17 September 1940 and never carried out. The German High Command had no confidence that the plan was feasible, and historians have argued about whether it had any possibility of success.〔David Shears, "Hitler’s D-Day", ''MHQ'', vol. 6 Number 4 (Summer 1994)〕
==Background==
Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf'' of 1923 listed his hatreds: his admiration was reserved for ordinary German World War I soldiers, and Britain which he saw as an ally against communism. In 1936 and 1937 Nazi diplomacy promised assistance to defend the British Empire, asking only a free hand to achieve dominance in Eastern Europe. Hitler hoped for a negotiated peace with Britain, and made no preparations for amphibious assault on a hostile shore. At the time, the only forces with experience or modern equipment for naval landings were the Japanese at the Battle of Wuhan in 1938.
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