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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik
Indeed
...Britain was an Empire in 1939 and if you start a war with an Empire you also need to keep track of what the Empire can do and will do, not only its Motherland...
Cheers
Stig
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Well, it is the Empire which declared the war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and not the other way around.
As for the state of German Intelligence, the picture was really mixed - some notable successes, and some dismal failures. I read somewhere, must have been here
https://books.google.ie/books/about/...AJ&redir_esc=y, that Milch ordered a couple of books from English bookstores, which told him more about Britain that he could learn from his own intelligence. Anyway...