Top secret Nazi invasion plans sold at Shropshire auction
A top secret war dossier dubbed a "Nazi A-Z of Great Britain" has been sold for £300 at auction in Shropshire.
The dossier reveals how German troops were planning to invade Britain using postcards and calendars.
The booklet gives an insight into Hitler's plans had he been successful in his invasion of the UK in the Second World War.
It gives details of cities that would be destroyed, the schools where the German High Command would send their children and stately homes that would be rewarded to senior officers.
Among the pictures are landmarks including Conwy Suspension Bridge, Blackpool Tower, the Mersey Tunnel and Windsor Castle
Other images of Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge and Coventry Cathedral are said to have been used for German paratroopers to identify specific locations.
Eton College, in Berkshire, was earmarked as the place Third Reich ministers would send their children to be educated. The pictures were collected and numbered by military officials before they were prioritised on a series of 12 maps, which would have been handed to high-ranking Nazi officers during "Operation Sealion."
But Hitler abandoned the plans on September 17, 1940, when the Luftwaffe failed against the RAF in the Battle of Britain.
The dossier was sold by Mullocks Auctioneers, based at Wall-under-Heywood near Church Stretton, at an internet and phone auction yesterday.
Other items sold included an original police wanted poster offering a £10,000 reward for the Great Train Robbers, which fetched £4,600. But a schoolbook belonging to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill from his time at school in Harrow failed to sell. It had been given an estimate of between £5,000 and £7,000.
Mullocks' historical documents expert Richard Westwood-Brookes, said the Nazi dossier had been stored in a military library since 1945. He said: "It is a top secret document which only high ranking officers would have had access to. There's certainly not that many around. "It's like the Nazi"s A-Z of Britain – it has everything from the topography of certain area's to the numbers of homes, schools and hospitals they have.
"They even had detailed electricity distribution plans and populations for each town and city.
"In true German style it shows how meticulously planned this was and had been since the Nazis came into power."
