Shortly before departing from Bruly-de-Pesche Hitler tells OKW operations staff that, in a few days, he will want to examine studies for an invasion of Britain.
He tells Jodel "The English have lost the war but they haven't noticed it; one must give them time and they will soon come around."
A visiting Luftwaffe staff officer found Keitel and Hitler's air adjutant "convinced that England was prepared to sue for peace, and that the war was as good as finished."