What the FUCK was Hitler thinking?

>Germany force a surrender of Britain
How would he do that? Invading them using river barges piloted by sailors who only know their way around inland canals without radios against the most powerful navy in the world isn't an option. Neither is getting into a protracted air war against a country with limitless resources from her Empire and the US while you're facing shortages of numerous resources and a great power is growing stronger by the day at your eastern doorstep.
>muh oil
It's a perfectly valid reason though, along with gaining access to other resources in short demand such as food and nonferrous metals like manganese.

The war had kind of entered a stand off then, Germany had secured continental Europe for the most part and Britain would not be ready to launch an invasion and was tied up with North Africa. If Germany had delayed it even more they would be caught in the winter and have to wait more or less another year which could have made the theatre and even bigger disaster. Really in the mind of Germany it was best time they were going to get. Also Germany basically did not have the means to coax British surrender, they had no chance of actually invading the isles and I don't think Britain would be willingly to agree to surrender on peaceful diplomatic terms.

planes you dummy, the entire reason for the battle of Britain was to cripple the RAF so the luftwaffe could allow for a crossing of the channel

A practical white peace in the face of major military disadvantage would be very hard to argue against.

It would justify Germany's statement that Danzig was, indeed, one last demand, too.

How'd that go?

>the luftwaffe could allow for a crossing of the channel
With what armor-piercing bombs?

Hold off the British navy?

This isn't 1812. The Germans need to not only land, but they also need supply.

Putting aside the huge if of them somehow landing, what are they going to eat? What are they going to shoot?

OK, retard, the RAF if it was intact would bomb the hell out of the German landing forces. The RAF needed to be destroyed (then the Nazis could have used the Luftwaffe to aid the invasion too).

You're implying they didn't try and fail to do exactly that

How the fuck would landing forces be able to get there in the first place? You can't just handwave the Royal Navy away.

Hitler's goal was always to get an Anglo-German alliance to work. His thinking, right up into Operation Barbarossa was to try to get an agreement with the British. He sent Rudolf Hess there with conditions for a separate peace.

Poorly, which is why a quicker rebuilding of their air force could mean a victory

I dont think you understand blitzkrieg, if there were tanks on the ground they would be headed straight for london within the week

No, the plan was for the planes to harass the British navy long enough for landing forces to go through. Planes can attack ships, believe it or not

>if there were tanks on the ground they would be headed straight for london within the week
assuming they had the fuel, spare parts, tracks, and ammunition to do it

Poor Hess, truely the most miserable guy.
I dont even wanna know what the anglos did to him to get info out.

And btw. Hitler didnt send him, he went on his own accord and Hitler was furious that he did.

>Hitler was furious that he did
Only publicly

>Pretty sure Germany's air force could have rebuilt faster than Britain's
Britain was consolidating resources from it's vast overseas empire and buying loads of stuff from USA. Britain simply had a larger resource pool than Germany. The only way Germany could've invaded was if they actually won the battle of britain in time before the Empire mobilised. Even then it's likely that British war office would move to Canada and continue to prepare under US protection.