ANNEX Note by Chief of the Air Staff on J.P.(43) 178 I doubt if the picture of German disintegration on which this paper is based will prove to be a true one. It might apply to Italy but I think not to Germany. I think Germany will prove, when the time comes, to be quite well organised for defeat, and I think it most unlikely that small parties of Allied troops will be free to move about in Germany to seize the objectives named in the paper. 2. My own guess at what will happen is this. When a combination of military reverses on land, the bombing of Germany, and the failure of the U-boat war have convinced the German Nation as a whole that defeat is inevitable and further resistance profitless, the German Army will dispose the Nazis and take charge of the country.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Denmark Germany Holland Italy Netherlands Norway
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/115/74
- Document Types
- Memorandum Report
- File Reference
- CAB 81/115
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0115.074
- Keywords
- Intelligence Requirements Intelligence Reports Operations Planning Contingency Planning Collapse Of Nazi Germany Western Front Occupied France Military Operations Invasion Preparations Assessing Enemy Strength Post-war Planning German Withdrawal Airfields Air Power Allied Strategy Strategy Manpower German Strategy Military Dispositions German Army Nazi Leadership German Government Sabotage Underground Resistance Coup D’état Communications Bombing Air Raids German Air Force Air Warfare Predicting Enemy Intentions
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Joint Intelligence Staff Joint Planning Staff
- Pages
- 4
- Persons Discussed
- Alan Brooke Francis Inglis Edward King-Salter
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
