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There were several reasons, including the superiority of the British Spitfire over German fighters and the fact that, due to fuel limitations, German fighters could only protect the bombers for a limited time, but the major reason was a strategic error. At the beginning of the Battle of Britain the Luftwaffe concentrated on attacking the British air fields. Despite british superority in aerial combat, their air fields were being steadily degraded and were approaching a point of such damage that the British air force would no longer have been able to fly its planes. Had the Germans kept after the air fileds for another three weeks or so, the British Fighter Command would have been knocked out of the war. Instead, fortunately, Hitler had one of his bright ideas. He ordered the Luftwaffe to begin attacking British cities, particularly London, with the intention of terrorising the British people into submission. That failed, and with their airfields secure, the British air force's tactical advantages began to tell and Germany began losing more planes than they could afford. Eventually Hitler convinced himself that Britain didn't really matter and began concentrating his resources for the invasion of Russia. Michael Montagne

Hitler's "strategic error", which may well have changed the outcome of the war, only occurred when a small number of German bombers dumped their loads, almost by accident over London, something Hitler had expressly forbidden. The next night, in response, Churchill sent bombers to Berlin. Hitler was furious, and made his fateful order to target London.

Another fundamental cause of Hitler's failure over Britain was Germany's lack of understanding of Britain's radar system, which gave the RAF advance warning of incoming German raids, and relieved the RAF of wasting resources mounting standing patrols. German bombers did attack and knock out radar stations a number of times, but didn't understand how effective that tactic was, and shifted to other targets.

At a time when Britain needed every last Spitfire and Hurricane, it's production and aircraft repair systems were highly efficient, especially compared to German production.

In some senses, too, the German defeat goes back to the decision not to build heavy, four-engine bombers. The Luftwaffe had acted almost exclusively as a close-support weapon for the army. It even failed to develop a simple drop tank to give the Bf-109 fighter much more range over Britain.

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In 1940, Hitler's cross-channel invasion of Great Britain failed even before it began. The first step in his planned invasion was to take control of the skies with his air forces. Great Britain's air force prevented this from happening; the invasion was then cancelled.

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England calculated that if they shot down 10% of the German air craft each bombing raid they would soon have most of the German air force on the ground shot up.

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the reason why they failed was because they were wasting there fuel

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because England declared war on Germany when they invaded France and they wanted to crush England before Russia could fully mobilize

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