HitRed wrote:I always thought if Germany took Gibraltar instead of fighting the battle of Britton Rommel might have won in North Africa
Quite likely. Or if they had at least maintained a bombing campaign over Gibraltar to make it useless as a naval base. Or if Rommel had gotten the four armoured divisions he asked for. Or if the Italian Navy showed some spine. Or if more U-Boats had been moved into the Med to help the Italian Navy. Or if the Germans trusted the Vichy French enough to relax the armstice terms, let the French re-arm and defend Dakar.
Really, there's at least a dozen things that could have been done, if Hitler had understood that the Mediterranean is the key to Europe. But that's the thing. Bottom line, Hitler was a total retard who got a completely undeserved reputation for strategic genius because a couple of his early gambits paid off.