AHC improve the Romanian military in WW 2

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Not a plan. Just a really bad drawing. I didn't even looked at a real map so no remarks about "there was a better landing zone a few miles south", please

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And I for one would like to read them.:) i think this scenario is also the best one for Romania, but it isn't really what this thread was about. As usual we've seem to have gone just a little off topic.:eek::D
Bulgaria never declared war on Soviets and it didn't help them anyway. ;)
 
While Michele makes a good argument that Germany could easily take Romania without too many consequences. I think AdA made a couple of good points as well. I also wonder if Hitler or his generals might not be concerned that if Romania is invaded they might demolish the oilfields, after all they done it before

Yes, in WWI, at the very strong insistence of the British, and then they were left to cobble things together after that. The Romanians were very unhappy at this whole affair after WWI.
In this situation, I think once they have called what they thought was a German bluff and have German vanguards into the country, they try to use the wells and a threat to them as a bargaining chip, and to make a deal.
 
Ironically, both countries had relatively similar ethnic grievances,

Huh? After WWI, Germany became smaller. Hungary (not an independent country before WWI, but in comparison to its share of the Austro-Hungarian empire) became even smaller.

Romania? Larger. Much larger. Sure they still had some small minorities over the borders, especially in Yugoslavia.

But frankly I'd never call that a similarity with Germany plus Austria in the interwar period, which together were looking at parts of Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, i.e. nearly every neighbor save Switzerland and Luxembourg.
 
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