Had Hitler Invaded Britain.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2550879/Top-secret-Nazi-A-Z-Britain-reveals-Hitlers-stormtroopers-picked-send-children-school-invading-Britain.html

[anotheoldgit]

DTCwordfan

/// as well as our ABer previous generations who, if like the folk on here, would have had them soon pulling their hair out in frustration. ///

I doubt it they would have welcomed them with open arms, and woe betide anyone who dared to criticise the invaders.

[emmie]

wiki
Big Ben

1916: for two years during World War I, the bells were silenced and the clock face darkened at night to prevent attack by German Zeppelins.[11]
1 September 1939: although the bells continued to ring, the clock faces were darkened at night through World War II to prevent guiding Blitz pilots.[11]

[jim360]

"St Pauls survived by the grace of God. "

The grace of God preserves inert monuments to his Glory but not tens of thousands of the people who worshipped in them?!

[emmie]

DT they didn't worry about what they were hitting, much of it was carpet bombing in the blitz, the docks, the East End, if you look at the web site which gives the amount of bombs that did land on the capital, it was horrendous.

[emmie]

this is a very interesting site, it;s amazing what they did hit.

http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900

[sandyRoe]

an enigma wrapped in a paradox, shrouded in a conundrum. I've asked that it be removed, a waste of space.

[emmie]

and i don;t think that many of the Royals, politicians would have welcomed them, perhaps people like Moseley, but i doubt very much if many of them would have survived had they conquered Britain.

[DTCwordfan]

//I doubt it they would have welcomed them with open arms, and woe betide anyone who dared to criticise the invaders.//

Didn't mention anything about the greeting though I will say if it would be like the way some on here see current immigrants, it wouldn't be pretty.

[sandyRoe]

I think then, as now, St Pauls was surrounded by the temples of Mammon. God took the opportunity to show what he thought of them.

[Bazile]

Just think , if there had been a successfull invasion , all us blokes would be walking around with a Hitler moustache - by decree of ' our beloved Führer '

[anotheoldgit]

DTCwordfan

/// You try hitting a needle like Nelson's Column with 1940s bomb guidance - and then over 1/3rd of bombs didn't explode because of crap fuses and the effect of London mud....///

They didn't have much trouble with the East End.

Regarding Nelson's Column, a very high perpendicular column standing in the centre of a building free square, I wouldn't have thought that would not have been any problem for any bomb-aimer no matter what the bombs were like.

http://images.cdn.bridgemanart.com/api/1.0/image/600wm.LLE.3564280.7055475/821474.jpg

[jim360]

Well, by definition of the fact that Nelson's column survived, it clearly wasn't an easy target to knock down -- so presumably it was a problem for bombers to hit, if they were aiming for it, and they might not even have been aiming for it.

[anotheoldgit]

DTCwordfan

I was talking about the majority on here.

[jno]

heavens, sandyRoe, if St Paul's was smothered in coding like that, no wonder Goering couldn't find it.

aog, I imagine the Nazi was the former Edward VIII: not actually in the palace by 1939, but a sympathiser.

[DTCwordfan]

Surface area of the top of Nelson's Column versus the surface area of the East End - that's not a small number as to difference? No Sir.... splutters with laughter

Don't be so bloody ridiculous - with the equipment back then and from 15000 feet, it would be more luck.

[emmie]

Jim if you look at the link i provided it shows how many and where the bombs landed, if Nelsons Column wasn't hit it was more likely because they had other targets in mind.

[DTCwordfan]

And that's a bloody machine gunner not a bomb aimer.......just to be a pedant.