Showing posts with label Operation Sealion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Operation Sealion. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Lord Baden-Powell arrested!


On this centenary celebration day for the Scouting movement, I thought it pertinent to raise the thought of what might have been. I can recall reading in William L Shirer's excellent The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as a youngster that had Operation Sealion been successful, Lord Baden Powell would have been arrested. Did the Nazis really think that the scout movement was a threat?