"War secret revealed: Nazis DID invade Britain during WWII" Topic

"Author Adrian Searle claims the German attack on the RAF St Lawrence radar station in August 15, 1943, has been airbrushed from history.

He uses an account of German soldier, Dr Dietrich Andernacht, who said he was part of a secret operation to steal equipment from the British base.

Andernacht claims he raided the station in a sabotage operation that has been keep quiet for over 70 years…"

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Amicalement
Armand

Interesting.

I suspected as much for this type of raid, and presence on British soil, but it is still fun to read about.

The plot by the Nazis to turn some of the royals is apparently still top secret, though rumors of contacts and personnel sent to have those discussions have been rumored for decades.

The reason this episode was kept secret was because the hun were really chased off by an amateur witch and an army of magic museum exhibits.

I would like for this to be true, as I am fascinated by the idea of raids on Britain during this period, as in The Eagle has Landed and for that matter Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

I have painted a small selection of individually based 15mm late war Germans and British (and hopefully Americans) to play just such an encounter. I also hope to use all my favourite early war British tanks which might have still been kicking around for training or emergency purposes back in Blighty.

Whilst I agree that the UK would've have covered this up, I'd have thought the Germans probably would've have made more of it, both in media announcements and war records.

This is old news and has been featured on TMP before (I can't be bothered to look for that topic). By chance I came across the book in a remaindered book shop and bought a copy for a fraction of the original price. And that is all the book is worth. Basically it's a first class example of adding two to two and coming up with 147.

I have a superb book about a German paratroop landing at Bewdley in Worcestershire in 1940.

It was a false alarm but had it escalated it would have probably have resulted in mass civilian casualties from LDV (Home Guard) gunfire in a built up area.

Very interesting ! So the consensus here is that the raid in question did not occur ?

I haven't read the book, so can't say.

I do know that throughout the war the Germans sent a lot of their small boats – R-Boats and S-Boats close inshore to the UK coast to lay mines, sometimes even up into the rivers and estuaries, so they could easily drop off some men in small boats doing that, and then retrieve them later.

They did land German troops/agents/spies/saboteurs on the eastern coast of the USA, so anything is possible. Most of these were quickly caught and imprisoned before they could do much harm. They were dropped off by U-Boats.

12 men is hardly an "invasion".

Even by Anglo Saxon standards, it is a "band" – midway between "thieves" (up to seven) and an "Army" (more than 35).

I grew up on the Isle of Wight. I don't think there was any great secret about the Germans raiding the Island.

The Island has been raided a lot over the Centuries!

Anyone interested in 20th Century military archaeology should pay a visit. There are loads of abandoned lumps of concrete all over the place. Coastal gun emplacements, pill boxes, etc. Almost all of it on public-access land…

Thanks!.

Amicalement
Armand

Tango this is the second or third time you've posted this

Good thing Jersey and Guernsey are technically not part of the UK.

;-)

B