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Dutch farmers reportedly built secret Nazi aerodromes in Norfolk post Adolf Hitler's orders

The eccentric Hitler reportedly wanted to invade England from the sky during his time as German dictator in the 1930s.

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The classified wartime papers that were recently unearthed have revealed that Dutch farmers working for Adolf Hitler had built secret Nazi aerodromes in Norfolk to invade England from the sky.

Police and MI5 failed to work out the farmers were creating a network of airstrips, to fly in German stormtroopers, across 2,000 acres of farmland for four years from 1936, the Mirror reported. This was despite enemy spies flattening fields to use as runways, creating hangar-shaped Dutch barns and even laying out chicken huts in the shape of swastikas.

A recently unearthed Air Ministry dossier reveals that by the time the RAF spotted the bases from the air in 1940, England stood on the brink of invasion and Hitler's bomber and paratrooper squadrons were ready to fly. English Heritage military expert Roger Thomas found the hidden file by accident in the public records office at Kew. Each airstrip, with hangars disguised as Dutch barns, covered at least 200 acres, equivalent to 100 football pitches.

Thomas said that the Nazis used a similar trick when they invaded the Low Countries.

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