We know that Germany's lightning tactics actually rely heavily on one resource, that is, oil. Without oil, the mechanized troops that Germans are proud of are all scrap metal. Speaking of which, Bian Xiao suddenly thought of a problem. Since oil is so important to the Germans, why didn't you occupy the Middle East first when World War II started? You know, there are quite rich oil resources there. In fact, there is a reason why the Germans didn't do this.
First of all, Germany is actually very afraid of the Soviet Union, because they have been a threat to Europe since the Russian era, and the growth rate of the Soviet Union is too fast. The Germans are worried that if they don't fight at this time and give them a few years to grow up, it will be more difficult to fight in the future, so they will attack the Soviet Union as soon as possible.
The Middle East lies in the center of the Soviet Union. Once the Germans capture it, it will inevitably anger the Soviet Union directly. Under such stimulation, the Soviet Union may take the lead in attacking them. Therefore, the Germans might as well fight the Soviet Union first. After winning the Soviet Union, the Middle East will naturally be in the pocket of the Germans. Unfortunately, the Germans had a good idea, but in the end they failed to win the Soviet Union.
Secondly, the Germans didn't know that there were so many oil resources in the Middle East. After all, the oil resources in the Middle East were discovered after 1950. During World War II, the main oil resources in the Middle East were in Iran. It is really not worth the loss to let the Germans explore Iran to find oil. At that time, the domestic oil production of the Soviet Union was also quite large, and it was also a country second only to the United States at that time.
Therefore, the Germans chose to attack the Soviet Union because of oil, so they urgently wanted to occupy the oil fields in the Caucasus, while the oil production in other areas was relatively low at that time, which was one of the reasons why Hitler finally made up his mind to attack the Soviet Union.
In fact, strictly speaking, the Germans did not attach importance to Middle East oil, but in the battlefield in North Africa, they eventually lost to the British. If they can really occupy Egypt at that time, then the British in Pakistan will definitely choose to retreat, and Iran's oil resources can naturally be quickly transported to the Germans by sea and land. If that is the case, history may be rewritten, or it may be a situation in which Germany, the United States and Russia are in a tripartite confrontation.