Playing the game HoI2 the Desert Fox scenario, the North African campaign as Rommel I capture Egypt, Sinai and Palestine by October 1941, and the game ended as strategic victory. What would that meant in real life?
It would mean that ASBs provided him with the fuel and other supplies needed to do it.Playing the game HoI2 the Desert Fox scenario, the North African campaign as Rommel I capture Egypt, Sinai and Palestine by October 1941, and the game ended as strategic victory. What would that meant in real life?
German scientists have perfected synthetic fuels.. . . What would that meant in real life?
German scientists have perfected synthetic fuels.
Jews and Arabs would be united in German ovens.
IIRC, there was actually an attempted alliance between the Germans and the more extreme Zionist groups in British-occupied Palestine. It was the most bizarre case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend ever, rivalled only by the West jumping into bed with the Khmer Rouge.
Indeed. The Jewish group Lehi offered to ally with Hitler, and conquer the Middle East for the Germans. One of its top leaders, Yitzhak Shamir, later became elected to become Israeli PM. Other than a brief protest by concentration camp survivors, this fact doesn't seem to have come up much in Jewish politics.
Anyways, Rommel likely wouldn't do anything significant to the Jewish population; if that infuriates Hitler sufficiently however, I can see him getting replaced, national hero or not.
IIRC, there was actually an attempted alliance between the Germans and the more extreme Zionist groups in British-occupied Palestine. It was the most bizarre case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend ever, rivalled only by the West jumping into bed with the Khmer Rouge.
To be fair, the Khmer Rouge was never a major threat to the west, just to its own people and Vietnam. So, when Vietnam essentially took over Cambodia, supporting the Khmer Rouge was essentially a continuation of Western policy in containing Vietnam.
Further, being that the West never seemed to car about how many Southeast Asians died in the game of Communist Domino Rally, I dont see the move as confusing even from a humanitarian perspective.
As for Zionist-Nazi links, I have done no research on it, though the fact that the Nazis wanted the death of all Jews would make such a collaboration the craziest in history until Nelly and Tim McGraw collaborated in Over and Over. To be honest, it sounds like modern anti-zionist propaganda but I hear there is some truth to it.
To be fair, the Khmer Rouge was never a major threat to the west, just to its own people and Vietnam. So, when Vietnam essentially took over Cambodia, supporting the Khmer Rouge was essentially a continuation of Western policy in containing Vietnam.
Further, being that the West never seemed to car about how many Southeast Asians died in the game of Communist Domino Rally, I dont see the move as confusing even from a humanitarian perspective.
As for Zionist-Nazi links, I have done no research on it, though the fact that the Nazis wanted the death of all Jews would make such a collaboration the craziest in history until Nelly and Tim McGraw collaborated in Over and Over. To be honest, it sounds like modern anti-zionist propaganda but I hear there is some truth to it.
It is mentioned by some quite respected Israeli historians (though not of the sort Likud likes). To be fair, Lehi was pretty fringe and by no means representative of the general views of the Zionist leadership (which, by the way, highlights the double standards when Haj Amin's enlistment with Hitler is cited as proof that Palestinians were all potential Nazi collaborators, which was not so clearly the case).
At the time, it wasn't entirely clear that most of the whole point of Nazism was having literally all Jews dead, although there was hardly want of hints for intent observers. Lehi was operating under the assumption that the Nazis would have been fine with Jews being faraway outside Europe. This was almost certainly mistaken, at least as far as Nazi views were around 1941.
As an aside, I don't any evidence whatsoever pointing to Nazis generally considering the Arabs "Aryans" (and I'd be glad to have some serious source if there are some). I am fairly sure they could have, if needed, come out with some convoluted reasoning holding that Palestinians could have some Aryan blood as descendants of the historical Philistines (which were, indeed most likely at least partly Indo-European speaking, quite possibly closely related to Achaeans; not that really mattered to a NAzi POV) as they did similar shit for Croats. But to my knowledge, the Arabs were considered Semites by the Nazis as by much of everyone else; they weren't subjects of specifically targeted Nazi hatred, but there's a historical reason why hate against Jews is called anti-Semitism. (Not that the Nazis wouldn't have accepted or sought some local collaborator if they needed that; after all, deciding who was a Semite was up to the SS).
They would have to push and push all the way to India for them to have a victory there. The British are not giving up after loosing Palestine. Forces will be coming in from the Indian Ocean and land in Iraq, reinforcing them.
Realistic the Germans can't have gone all that far, with the British taking out the Italian fleet in the meds bit by bit, Logistics would soon stop and the Afrika Korps runs out of fuel and ammo. Nothing to gain in Palestine anyway, only Iraq has some good oil fields to use(in game anyway, although Syria had some as well) so it would be a waste of material and manpower to even go that far. Blocking the Suez canal could have been done without going all the way for Palestine.
It would keep the English busy, but not help German win the war against them.
Barbarossa would have launched by October, making Africa a less and less priority anyway. Perhaps they would leave the rest to the Italians, who would loose big time.