Hitler's Feared Invasion of the Middle East
Hitler’s feared invasion of the Middle East: A #WW2 history-that-never-was with #maps
In the spring of 1941, Nazi Germany controlled of all of Western Europe and the question was where Adolf Hitler would strike next? Would he finally attempt an invasion of Great Britain? Or would he move into the Middle East instead and grab the oilfields? (Few anticipated at the time he would break his nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union.)
Lifemagazine argued in March of that year that an…