Why did Hitler not send more panzer division to conquer egypt and middle east for the oil?

Answer 1

i bet he's lying in his grave wondering the same!

Answer 2

Elizabeth has a very good answer. You should also remember that, with the continued British presence at Malta, the Germans could not even supply properly the tanks that were already in Lybia.

Hitler did promote a Fascist coup in British Iraq, which for a little while was a very touch and go operation. The Iraqi rebels received a lot of German military aid, especially fighter planes, but in the end they were defeated. And, yes, this was the basic founding of the Baath party which led to Saddam Hussein.

Answer 3

The majority of his armor was tied up in the east trying to overrun Russia. The oil fields there were a prize possession that Hitler wanted desperately. The supply lines in the desert were thin and easily cut off, which made supplying the tanks and armor with lubricants and fuel no small task.

Answer 4

He only had a limited number and he was more interested in the oil fields in Russia. Besides, he needed the vast majority of his forces to take on the Russians. North Africa was originally an Italian area of interest. Only after they lost badly did he send forces and by then his were pretty much committed to other arenas.

Answer 5

Sadly for him, but joyfully for the world, He over extended himself in his greed, by moving into Russia, plus he did have economic limits as well as personnel limits to contend with in his design to expand globally.

Algeirs and any "fields" in Africa wouldn't have been as profitable as a move into the Mid East, but he was also wise enough to know, even then, that His Doctrines, his Aryian plan, had little chance of success in a world where the majority of the population was Muslim.

Fortunately, but too late, he foiled his own World dominance schemes.

Steven Wolf

Answer 6

Hitler was insane! And like any madman his rationale was off track to the nth degree. It is a wonder people bought into the insanity for as long as they did!

Answer 7

Because half his troops were fighting on a second front in Russia. He made the classic mistake of believing he could fight two fronts at once. (The United States could do it - fighting in both Europe and the Pacific - because of our size. He simply ran out of manpower.)

Answer 8

His only concern seemed to be killing millions of innocent people. He was probably distracted by his own propaganda.

Answer 9

he didn't care. all he wanted to do was take over europe, kill the jews, then take the U.S. and after that, everything else.