Are you kidding - Denmark in summer is the business - sun shining, 26C, fridge full of Carls Classic, had the years' third BBQ last night (I measure the non winter months by the number of BBQs achieved), daylight until 1030pm, my local football team is top of the Superliga...the list goes on. Ask me again in October when that cold wind starts blowing again...but then it isn't long until the Turborg beer elves arrive with the free Christmas beers.

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The reason I mention all this is that my Cliffs of Dover productivity rate is going to dive dramatically in coming months...

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Channel Battles 1940 Demo this time only in german

Fighter Aces! Helmut Wick vs. J. C. Dundas Demo and full version available in english

Churchill himself said it very clearly in the summer 1940:
Those who think, we fight this war to fight nazism, are naive. Our intention is to smash germanys economic power.

Wars are never fought for altruistic motives. They always have a egoistic intent. The aim is power and territories, never the people.

None of the nations fighting in WWII is innocent. Not even the victors.

And so was the "Battle of Britain" also not what it was stylized for. For Great Britain it wasn't the fight to survive, and for Germany it wasn't the fight for the invasion of England.
Churchill wanted to fight this war for his own personal power to the bitter end, at all costs. And it did cost! It did cost Great-Britain it's empire. He stood as loosing victor, who did gain his primary war goal, the destruction of Germany, but ruined the homeland entrusted to him. Great-Britain never recovered from this ruin.
In 1939 it was possible to start the war, but not to stop it. He only could take the bull by its horns, in a conflict, lost before it started. And the same was with the Battle of Britain. Continious changing aims of the battle, no strategic concept and a Luftwaffe not suited for this kind of war were the largest obstacles. But the truly biggest obstacle was, that there was no plan for the continuation of the war. So this battle was a improvisation, which was by propagandistic means blown up to a possible decisive battle.
The battle was decided, as soviet troops at 28.06.1940 invaded Romania and occupied large parts of it. From this day on the german high command knew, that the direction of the war would change, if they wanted to survive. Since without the romanian oil the war against England couldn't be fought also. 150 km divided from this day on G.K. Schukow from the decision in favour of the Soviet-union. But he overlooked the chance.
The german chief of staff Franz Halder, as Hitler himself, saw the danger and acted. All planning for a possible invasion of England were waste paper and obsolete with that.

Concluding it is to ascertain, that for England in 1940 was no danger of a invasion. Churchill wanted to get the USA into his boat, and that he did get. Because the USA supported Great-Britain after the Battle of Britain with enormous quantities of weapons wares, planes and ships.

After fooling around with trying to improve the English in some of the briefings . . . I have to say, I do not very much appreciate the . . . shall we say . . . revisionist history they use as an end of campaign brieing for the British campaigns. Claiming that Churchill's only reason for refusing peace with Hitler was his desire to destroy the German economy, and therefor implying that the Battle of Britain was little more than a short-sighted exercise in peronsal imperialism on the part of the British PM, is a rather one sided (and historically questionable) claim, both in the context of 1940 and what we know today. I am curious how widespread that view is in Germany (and continental Europe) today.

At the very least, considering the German campaigns tend to end with a cheery "we'll meet again" kind of messege, I find this anti-British rhetoric rather in bad taste.

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Have to say I agree with you mate. As much as I enjoy the desastersoft campaigns I must admit to some uneasiness whilst reading parts of the documents provided with it. Don't plan on getting into any form of discussion here though as such Internet discussions on the topic will never end well, I suspect.

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