Hermann Goering Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Hitler’s Sputtering Austrian Anschluss: Opportunity Missed?

26 December 2020 Comments 1 Comment

Excerpted from “Hitler’s ‘Tet Offensive’: Churchill and the Austrian Anschluss, 1938″ for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. If you wish to read the whole thing full-strength, with more illustrations and endnotes, click here.

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“Dunkirk” film: What if Hitler had Launched an Invasion?

30 July 2017 Comments 0 Comments

Invasion in 1940? Timothy Egan poses a thoughtful question in The New York Times. What if Hitler, not hesitating after Dunkirk, had rapidly launched an invasion of Britain? In conveying the movie Dunkirk‘s importance, Egan’s first paragraph is a much better introduction than the film provides: For more than a thousand years, the tribes of Europe have stared into the gun-metal-gray chop of the English Channel and thought of conquest. “We have six centuries of insults to avenge,” said Napoleon. I was just there, on the same spring week when the great bedraggled scraps of the French and British armies were cornered for slaughter by the Nazi war machine 77 years ago.…

Nightmare Scenario by Norman Longmate

1 October 2016 Comments 0 Comments

Norman Longmate, If Britain Had Fallen: The Real Nazi Occupation Plans. Published 1972, reprinted 2012, available from Amazon in hardback, paperback and Kindle editions.

A recent kerfuffle over draping Nazi banners on beloved British icons reminds me that this has been going on a long time and is perfectly acceptable in examining historical possiblities. Take the late Norman Longmate, who offered a gripping pastiche about what might have happened in 1940. As a result, we have a glimpse of a possible alternative.

Longmate’s Yarn on the Worst Possibility

Later that afternoon with the Germans already in Trafalgar Square and advancing down Whitehall to take their position in the rear, the enemy unit advancing across St.…