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Old December 26th, 2007, 10:57 PM
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Default Re: What did Germany need to win the war?

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Originally Posted by JohnnyReb1983 View Post
I could be wrong on this, but I think more pressure should have been put on Nationalist Spain for an Alliance, as well as Portugal, this could have been used for Naval Bases as well as made it easier to supply Rommel and perhaps another place to use Naval Bombers and Submarines against Allied Shipping. I also believe that an invasion of Turkey would have benefited Hitler, in allowing another front to attack Russia and to get to Iraq which would later rebel against Britain, an alliance probably could be made with Iraq gaining much needed oil and possible access to British India. I think also Hitler should have put more focus on Nuclear capabilities, which he generally ignored as "Jewish", I really don't know why. Another thing would be a better engine bomber and work on a strategic bomber. I think Hitler blundered on his invasion of Norway, even though Britain was planning on assisting Finland, I don't think they would have been able to stop Sweden from sending supplies to Germany, and they also would have been fighting the Soviets, another plus for Hitler. And lastly I think the focus on a German surface Navy was wrong, they should have built Much More Submarines than Hitler did, this would have terrorized Britain and maybe accomplished some of what Hitler wanted to do and that was to starve them out.
Spain actually did help Germany but only on the easter front. This allowed Spain to remain Neutral. Around 45,000 spaniards fought under Leningrad.

I cant imagine that attacking Turkey would benefit Hitler as that would be just another country going to war with. Supply lines would not have been that much shorter at all.

Oil in the Mid East at this time was almost none existent. Getting the oil back to Germany would prove to be almost an impossibility as well.

Finland fought with Germany she supplied about 250k troops (?) and attacked the Russians north of Leningrad only to regain the territory lost in the "Winter War."
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