Editing Operation Sea Lion (section)

=== The Black Book ===
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Had Operation Sea Lion succeeded, [[Franz Six]] was intended to become the ''[[Sicherheitsdienst]]'' (SD) Commander in the country, with his headquarters to be located in London, and with regional task forces in Birmingham, Liverpool, [[Manchester]], and [[Edinburgh]].<ref name="Rich397" /> His immediate mission would have been to hunt down and arrest the 2,820 people on the [[The Black Book (list)|''Sonderfahndungsliste G.B.'']] ("Special Search List Great Britain"). This document, which post-war became known as "The Black Book", was a secret list compiled by [[Walter Schellenberg]] containing the names of prominent British residents to be arrested immediately after a successful invasion.<ref name=Shirer965>Shirer, p. 965</ref> Six would also have been responsible for handling the large population of [[British Jews]], over 300,000 at that time.<ref name=Shirer965 />

Six had also been entrusted with the task of securing "aero-technological research result and important equipment" as well as "Germanic works of art". There is also a suggestion that he toyed with the idea of moving [[Nelson's Column]] to Berlin.<ref name=Kieser251>Kieser, p. 251</ref> The RSHA planned to take over the [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]], to close the major news agencies and to take control of all of the newspapers. Anti-German newspapers were to be closed down.<ref name=Kieser247>Kieser, p. 247</ref>