The daylight raids to knock out RAF Fighter Command, the airfields, radar stations, aircraft factories and docks were defeated and the Luftwaffe turned to bombing British cities by night.
A remarkable example of this is the Kiev offensive in World War II: 19 out of 25 Luftwaffe attacks on Soviet airfields in fact hit decoy installations.
Then, at the edge of victory, Hitler ordered his panzers to stop, probably in a bow to the Luftwaffe and Hermann Goering who wanted his Heinkels and Messerschmitts to finish the Allies off. Or perhaps he thought of conserving his army.
You'll be rooting for the Luftwaffe.
The RAF came close to defeat, but the Germans did not know that, and German losses in aircraft and men in the daylight battles were so unexpected that the Luftwaffe turned to night bomber raids on British cities.
When Goebbels' men returned the next day, they found it guarded by Luftwaffe sentries. With Goering's help, Horchers limped on in Berlin for a few more months.