THE SECRET WAR

Not all the battles was won on the battlefield. The intelligence, diplomacy and the secret operations, played an important role to both sides...

THE SECRET WAR - OPERATION "FELIX"

From the millions of soldiers who served their country hardly anyone knew about what was being planned at the Supreme Headquarters or by their government. Even lower staffs had no such information. Each one of these planned operations had their code name such as "Barbarossa" for invading the USSR, now known to everybody. Operation "Seeloewe" (Sea Lion) for the invasion of the UK (which never happened), a.s.o..

But who knew operation FELIX?

When at the end of the French campaign Italy entered the war at the side of Germany it was evident that a Southern flank opened for the Reich which had to be protected or at least closely observed in spite of the Italian forces operating in the Mediterranean area.

In Vol. 2 of the document collection on German foreign politics, published by H.M.S.O. is disclosed what has been planned. The respective chapter refers to Operation FELIX, namely the planned conquest of Gibraltar by the German Wehrmacht. The author was a certain Helmut Greiner, keeper of the daily logbook of the Planning Staff of the OKW (Supreme Headquarters of the Wehrmacht). Thus, the plan was preserved in written form.