The Man Who Would Be King

German plans for the period following a successful invasion of Britain called for the establishment of a puppet government with Oswald Mosley, aristocratic leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) at it's head. Unfortunately for the Germans, at the …

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German plans for the period following a successful invasion of Britain called for the establishment of a puppet government with Oswald Mosley, aristocratic leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) at it's head. Unfortunately for the Germans, at the time of the invasion Mosley was interned in Holloway Prison. Unwilling and unable to divert German troops from the heavy fighting in central London to assault a heavily fortified location, Axis commanders instead turned to the BUF. Equipped with second rate weaponry from Axis supplies the ill-trained rabble nevertheless possessed numbers and a conviction to see their leader freed. After a symbolic morning inspection by a German major in a bid to boost morale BUF forces converged on the prison gates chanting Mosley's name, unaware that his guards had been given very strict instructions in the event an escape bid was made.

Holloway Prison, London, England

Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion, was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hoped the British government would seek a peace agreement and he reluctantly considered invasion only as a last resort if all other options failed.

Wikipedia: Operation Sea Lion

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