The allies could of ended the U-boat war much earlier.

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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.

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?