Germany's Military Strategy and Spain in World War II.

Stark, M. Warner; Burdick, Charles B.

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“…One of the first researchers to address this issue was Charles B. Burdick in his analysis of Operation Felix, the plan to occupy Gibraltar. 1 The studies by Michael Salewski and Gerhard Schreiber also delved into this issue from the perspective of launching an attack on Gibraltar and obtaining naval bases to protect the route leading to a projected colonial empire in Central Africa. 2 Subsequently, Norman J. W. Goda explored the key role of north-western Africa and the Atlantic archipelagos within the Third Reich's strategy of world expansion to create a colonial empire, providing it with the raw materials required for its final confrontation with the United States.…”

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The German naval strategy for the Atlantic islands between 1940 and 1943

Díaz Benítez

2024

International Journal of Maritime History

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Although the strategic value of the Spanish and Portuguese Atlantic islands for the Third Reich during the Second World War has been the subject of several studies, certain issues remain unknown. One is the link between the strategic re-evaluation of these islands and Spain and Portugal's neutrality. The other is the role of the different Atlantic archipelagos in the German strategy after 1940. To respond to these questions, the author consulted primary sources in the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv and other archives elsewhere, as well as the most relevant bibliographical references. Worth highlighting among the conclusions is that the Spanish policy of non-belligerence significantly influenced German interests concerning the Atlantic islands during both the summer and autumn of 1940, as well as in later periods during the conflict.

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The German naval strategy for the Atlantic islands between 1940 and 1943

Díaz Benítez

2024

International Journal of Maritime History

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Nazi Germany and the Arab World

Nicosia

2014

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This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitler's assumption of power in January 1933 to 1944, a year following the final Axis defeat in and expulsion from North Africa in May 1943. It does so within the context of two central, interconnected issues in the larger history of National Socialism and the Third Reich, namely Nazi geopolitical interests and ambitions and the regime's racial ideology and policy. This book defines the relatively limited geopolitical interests of Nazi Germany in the Middle East and North Africa within the context of its relationships with the other European great powers and its policies with regard to the Arabs and Jews who lived in those areas.

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“Moro”: The Resupply of German Submarines in Spain, 1939–1942

Burdick

1970

Cent Eur Hist

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The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 manifestly occasioned fundamental adjustments in European strategic considerations. While few powers had given serious thought to Spain's diplomatic, military, or even geographical importance, the rising produced numerous useful opportunities for Germany. It created a potential friend on France's southern frontier, drew the senior, more aggressive dictator, Benito Mussolini, closer to the more recently arrived Adolf Hitler, threatened Great Britain's control of the Mediterranean at Gibraltar, and redirected the focus of international diplomacy. In order to obtain a position of greater influence within the unstable vector of forces created by the new situation the two dictators had dispatched socalled volunteer military and air formations in support of the rising. While these troops and their equipment were of fundamental value to the Nationalists, their presence forced the participating military high commands to reevaluate carefully their positions and intentions.

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Germany's Military Strategy and Spain in World War II.

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The German naval strategy for the Atlantic islands between 1940 and 1943

The German naval strategy for the Atlantic islands between 1940 and 1943

Nazi Germany and the Arab World

“Moro”: The Resupply of German Submarines in Spain, 1939–1942

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