According to Wikipedia Albert Speer wrote that Hitler said that he regretted siding with Franco and wished that he chose to support the 2nd republic.Let's say he did that, how does this change history?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_involvement_in_the_Spanish_Civil_War
>>18246209really?hitler was incredible retarder
>>18246209The communist republicans would have won the war, Hitler would have invaded Spain after invading France (it probably would have been easy for him since Spain was devastated by the war)
>>18246213How sure are you that the Condor legion, Stalin, and the Republicans would have defeated Franco and Mussolini?
This >>18246213 is the only thing that makes sense about Hitler wanting the republicans win the war.
Continuing this >>18246257In either case he had to invade the country. I'm assuming they thought that fighting against the republicans would have been easier?
>>18246209Moors expelled.
The alliance with Italy breaks.Italy being useless, this doesn't prevent the fall of France, but the subsequent invasions of Spain and Italy delay the invasion of the USSR by long enough that the US join the war first, which leads to indefinitely delaying the invasion of the USSR.No involvement in Africa, either.This in turn means that there are four times as many Germans in the west than historically (would be more, but gotta guard against Soviet backstabbing). Germany also still has access to Soviet oil and nickel. Given that the USSR never stopped relying on industrial imports to this very day, as long as Germany is actually willing to pay, it can pay.Allied airpower is still overwhelming, but with Soviet nickel, German jets become a lot more reliable and enter service sooner. The V1 is already ridiculously more cost effective than heavy bombers as is.Since Roosevelt's gonna Roosevelt, there'll still be an invasion, which'll be incredibly bloody and slow going.That's when Stalin backstabs Hitler. Too bad that Roosevelt dies around that time and the anticommunist Truman gets to be in charge.Germany has to sacrifice western Europe but is allowed peace with the US. Churchill cries like the bitch he is. Germany turns east with all it has, and there is no lend-lease for the USSR.
>>18246209All because pesky Spaniard faulthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa#p-lang
>>18246320Could Hitler and Mussolini even be considered allies at the time? It wasn't until the pact of steel, yeah?
