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Originally Posted by harzfeld
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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
I don't see how the German navy could have forced the British from gibraltar, seeing as how they would have to get through either Scapa or the channel to get there. The Italians obviously couldn't toss them out either.
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Spain was in middle of civil war & remain neutral, Hitler could have saw it as good opportunity to attack & take over instead of that Operation Barbarossa. Hitler's one of his typical saying, "We have to be ruthless." I guess he wasn't that cruel enough to conqueror Spain just to get Brits out of Gibraltar. Comparing to Operation Barbarossa, Spain should have be much easier, after all wasn't Spain more of leaning to Allied than Axis? |
I think Spain would have been a harder nut to crack than you think. If I were Hitler I would have concentrated on taking Malta and then supporting Rommel as much as possible to take Egypt and the canal. Then the Germans could have controlled the entire Med and pushed on into the oil fields of Arabia. Sure the British would have sortied from Gibraltar, but then their ships would have had to run the gauntlet of Axis airbases with no friendly ports left to seek shelter and repairs.