” Germany didn’t want to invade Britain”.
An interesting hypothesis. Did it originate from one of the “Hitler learns that ...” videos on youTube?
I’m more inclined to consider the following facts: morphine-fiend “Fatty” Goering was unsuccessful in knocking out the RAF in 1940—just as he failed to deliver later at Stalingrad—while Hitler was more interested in punitive bombing campaigns against urban areas, again, instead of knocking out radar installations.
In fact, his Luftwaffe general in charge of fighters (name escapes me) wanted the new jets for use as fighters, where they might have been, if not a war-winner, a means of dragging the war out another year or so. But Hitler wanted bombers and vengeance weapons to respond to allied bombing of German cities.
Losses of experienced pilots and planes over England, failure to gain control of the air and plain logistic inability to actually mount an invasion was the reason Fall `Sea Lion’ was never attempted—not any magnanimous attitude on the part of the little corporal, even if Germans could have then been considered Anglophiles.
Also, Hitler was eager to resolve some differences with his buddy to the east: Fall `Barbarrosa,’ and the air war with Britain was taking too long to suit him. If he had paid as much attention to his idol Frederick’s teachings, he would have considered that Russia, while easy to get into is almost impossible to get out of.
Something like Afghanistan: Barry’s war. We’ve seen two great powers in recent history leave Afghanistan licking their wounds but—like Vietnam and the French—we just had to try it on for size, with no exit strategy except (I suppose) to stay there indefinitely until even our Afghan `friends/allies’ started shooting us at close range.
A valid hypothesis. The plan was laid out by the man with the small mustache himself in Mein Kampf: his intent was to divide the continent (broadly speaking) among Japan, Germany, and England. He hated the idea of fighting over water, and was content to leave England to its islands.