With the Suez Canal in Axis hands and the straights of Gibraltar mined and full of U boats, with a huge Luftwaffe contingent in Gibraltar (which can be supplied by air) this will be hard.Honestly here is a problem I have with all of these 'Nazi go to the Med' threads, apart from the obvious which is Nazi Germany can't get what they want in the Mediterranean. Let's say they do take Gibraltar or Malta somehow.
Won't the British just take it back?
There was one side on WW2 with a long record of amphious successes and it wasn't the Axis. In fact, a book I was reading recently made an interesting statement. During the whole war, the only one amphibious assault was halted, contained and defeated and that was Dieppe was was basically a mega-raid. Even Anzio, the Allies held on and then won.
Britain will undertake an operation to take Gibraltar back and they will have way more advantages then Germany. It isn't as if Germany can resupply the Rock through Spain, unless we are just adding Franco to the Axis which just means German troops are spread even thinner.
Yes, eventually they probably would. But it would take time. Particularly had there been no Dunkirk evacuation.
Britain was not expecting attack in these places in 1940. Yes they do probably take it back in the end, but with Iwo Jima style losses.
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