WI: Hitler focused on the middle East

Suppose Hitler gets a rare moment of sanity and decides to pour everything into Africa and the Middle East and deal with the USSR later.

What happens when Nazis arrive in Baghdad?
 
Suppose Hitler gets a rare moment of sanity and decides to pour everything into Africa and the Middle East and deal with the USSR later.

What happens when Nazis arrive in Baghdad?

They don't seeing as they'll fail to take either Gilbraltar or Malta.

Then the US declares war in 1942.

Then the Red Army attacks in 1943.
 
No doubt that Hitler may take Africa and the Middle East.

The bigger question is whether or not he can keep them? His supply lines will be stretched. The British navy can also set up shop, new bases wherever and whenever they want to deter the Germans.

Add to this the Nazi ability to make enemies out of conquered peoples once the SS comes along.

He would have to have some amasing luck to be able to keep his possessions.
If Spain, Vichy France, Turkey joined as junior allies, while liberating Syria and at least putting up a puppet in Iraq to control the people while Germany controls the oil.

If he could avoid direct confontation with the USA. Once the weight of the USA is added to the British, he is screwed no matter what he does.

What would he do after he captures North Africa and the Middle East? Would he make a move towards India? Would he prepare for the Soviet Union? Would he step up the air and naval campaign against the UK and wait for a British counter attack?
 
Maybe Hitler mvoes up through the Caucasus while giving the impression that he is attacking on the molotov ribbentrop borders.
 
What if they still occupied the Mideast? I got the feeling that the Reich would have very little tolerance for terrorism. :eek:
 
Maybe Hitler mvoes up through the Caucasus while giving the impression that he is attacking on the molotov ribbentrop borders.

Um, what exactly are you proposing? Invading the USSR, followed by a drive south through the caucasus? Invading turkey along the black sea, then pushing north through said mountains? Driving through turkey, then south, with the mountains screening the german left flank? And what does Molotov-Ribbentrop have to do with any of this?
 
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