Hitler's Nazi Germany Focuses on North Africa and the Middle East Instead of Stalin's USSR

It sure seems the Germans really believed in the food deficit problem, that it would grow worse without the fertilizers.

Then Barbarossa seems like a destiny thing.

The only possible work arounds:
a) is generous use of the Trans Siberian Railway and trade with Japan (and perhaps indirect access via Japanese Shipping to South American nitrates and grain assuming Britain just doesn't buy them all up).
b) Helping the Soviet increase agricultural production through increased mechanization.
c) Peace with Britain within a couple of years.

a+c get blown up anyway when the USA enters the war.
 
Excellent topic and thank you. Hitler would still have had to properly deal with England, the British Empire and the British Navy. If England had surrendered or been conquered and occupied ... THEN dealing with North Africa without Barbarossa MIGHT succeed. If it did, then WW2 in Europe would have turned out very differently, particularly if the USSR and the Axis had remained buddies.
 
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