Company green
Enterprise Green (often referred to as Fall Grün or Plan Grün ) is the code name for a planned German invasion of Ireland during World War II. This operation was intended to support Operation Sea Lion (Invasion of England ). The implementation of the company's green was the responsibility of Air General Leonhard Kaupisch , commander of the German Fourth and Seventh Army Corps, Army Group B was. Field Marshal Fedor von Bock was the originator of the idea for developing the Green Company . Bock was intended for the command of the western flank of the planned company Seelöwe. On August 8, 1940, about two weeks after the de facto surrender of France , thirty-two copies of the top secret, detailed invasion plan were handed over to the German high command. Some copies of the plan survived the Second World War .
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- Germany. 1940. Military geographical information for Ireland. Berlin: General Staff of the Army , Department of War Maps and Surveying (IV. Mil.-Geo.). OCLC : 10934333.
- A copy of the Company Green plan is in the Military Archives, Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin.
- Mark M. Hull: Irish Secrets. German Espionage in Ireland, 1939–1945. Irish Academic Press, Dublin et al. 2003, ISBN 0-7165-2756-1 .
- Robert Fisk: In Time of War. Ireland, Ulster and the Price of Neutrality, 1939-45. Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1985, ISBN 0-7171-2411-8 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ not to be confused with ' Fall Grün ', the smashing of the rest of the Czech Republic
- ↑ www.military.ie