The British Home Guard Pocket-Book (referred to in an earlier blog) contained valuable advice for dealing with enemy German cyclists. I am not convinced the Germans were going to invade Britain on their bikes, but if they had the Home Guard were waiting for them. The Pocket-Book offered the following tactical suggestions to meet the cycling foe. I quote directly from the Home Guard Pocket-Book:
'The best trap for a cyclist is a wire stretched across a road about four feet up...cut a strand of barbed wire loose in the hedge on the one side, with your bayonet or tool. Draw the wire across the road and make it fast...If there are several cyclists let them all crash, and shoot or club them individually, starting with those who manage to pull up before crashing'.
It was probably this kind of deadly military planning that persuaded Hitler to invade the Soviet Union instead.
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