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Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Why didn't the Germans just send up all their interceptors to stop the thousand bomber raids?" video.
That statement has a certain ring to it.
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@aleksazunjic9672 The German radar was perhaps on a par with British radar around 1940-1941, but not as efficient. The British radar only required a single antenna, while the German radar required two. And once Britain developed and started using the cavity magnetron, British radar leapt ahead of its German counterpart. A book I highly recommend on the subject is "Most Secret War" by R.V. Jones, who was one of the scientists who worked on unravelling and figuring out how to jam German radars.
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As I recall, someone did a comparison on the rate of losses of the RAF versus the Luftwaffe, and had the Germans continued the battle the attrition would have gutted the Luftwaffe. Since Hitler had his eyes on other things (Barbarossa), he couldn't afford to do that. Also, without a navy, Germany would still have been stuck on the French side of the Channel staring across at the white cliffs of Dover and the Royal Navy sailing back and forth in between. Or as one author put it, the Battle of Britain was won by the Royal Navy.
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They figured that they could win the war quickly, as Prussia had won most of their wars in the past. Problem was that if an opponent wasn't smacked down in the first few weeks, the Germans just didn't have the staying power or logistics to win in the end. From Citino's book "The German Way of War", the thing the Germans feared the most was a war of attrition. And when Britain and the USSR didn't fold like a house of cards, that is what the Germans ended up getting.
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