Hitlers Africa

[rocketboy]

hey for all you WW2 historians, why did hitler go after africa?

 

[CHARLES H]

hey for all you WW2 historians, why did hitler go after africa?

to protect his southern flank,and easy access to middle east.

 

[tonystal1234567890]

More land the better!

 

[sandersjp]

to protect his southern flank because the italian
being beat by the english. So he sent gen rommal and ad hoc
force to africa. And that become the africa corps .

 

[Aidan Pryde]

Hitler didn't really go after Africa, his interest in the area was minimal at best.

The German forces under Rommel were only sent to the area because the Italians were about to lose their entire African empire to the British, if they Itatlians had been able to defend Libya and take Egypt on their own I doubt any German forces would have been sent to Africa.

 

[CHARLES H]

Hitler didn't really go after Africa, his interest in the area was minimal at best.

The German forces under Rommel were only sent to the area because the Italians were about to lose their entire African empire to the British, if they Itatlians had been able to defend Libya and take Egypt on their own I doubt any German forces would have been sent to Africa.

yeah but if hitler did'nt think it was stratigic he would not have wasted his time or resources.

 

[Aidan Pryde]

yeah but if hitler did'nt think it was stratigic he would not have wasted his time or resources.

He did waste he resources though, he could have sent a force three of four times larger than we he did and swept the British back to the Suez Canal with ease but instead he sent a token force just to prop up the Italians.

 

[Voegelin]

One of the great "what ifs' of WWII.

What if Franco had not refused Hitler's request to allow the transit of German troops through Spain to take Gibraltar?