World War II and the Battle for Britain On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler initiated World War II within Europe, leading the Nazi-German army with the invasion of Poland. Prior to the invasion, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, signed the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact. Two days afterwards on September 3rd, France and England declared war against the Nazi’s. The German-Soviet Pact would allow the Nazi’s to invade Poland and attack the rest of Europe without interdiction from the Soviet Union’s army. After decimating the military’s of Poland, England, and France, Hitler conquered Poland and ordered his officers to begin dividing up the country, giving two thirds of it to the Soviet Union as part of their peace …show more content…
Critical errors where made by the German forces during the entirety of this battle. The first was their dealings with the radar system recently established by the Britain’s. During their initial attacks on Britain, they had focused bombing attempts on four of the major radar stations located in the south. They never followed up with more bombing. Had they listen to intelligence reports and actually considered its capabilities, they would have known that in order to put the sites out of commission, they would need to take out the power sites and phone lines that made the radar system operate in the first place. Destruction of the sites would have made the RAF blind to any incoming aircraft attacks. The indecisiveness of their targeting was also another poor judgment call on the sides of the Nazi’s. Hitler changing their bombing strategy against Britain due to Berlin being bombed was detrimental in the changing of the course of battle. At the time of him ordering them to attack the cities and London proper, the German Air force had the RAF on the run. Their bombing of the airfields and factories and destroyed a lot of their retaliation means and was allowing German bombers to push further and further into