WWII history

Nazi intelligence documents for Adolf Hitler's Operation Sea Lion plan to invade and conquer Britain go up for auction for £7,000

Nazi intelligence documents which would have been used to support Hitler's Operation Sea Lion, a plan to invade and conquer the UK, are to be put up for auction today.

The original documents, which are valued together at around £7,000, contain detailed information on the UK that was so sensitive, copies of the documents were initially seized by British intelligence after their existence became known.

Now, almost 80 years later, their pages will be made available to one discerning buyer.

According to information made available by the Henry Aldridge auction house, the plans were first gathered by SS General Walter Schellenberg who prepared this book for the Gestapo to be distributed to any arriving occupation forces.

It represented an incredible snapshot of how the Nazis saw Great Britain and her Empires. 

But most chillingly, it was a literal blueprint for the occupation of Britain after a proposed invasion by Nazi Germany.