>>7609180I can’t say much for planes as I am but a simple brainlet in that field. As for Africa and going on adventures in slav land the book Panzer commander the memories of colonel Hans von luck written by him obviously makes a mention of either himself being told by a member of the general staff or Rommel told him he had been told by said member Hitler and the inner circle had written Africa off as a loss as early as 42 and had lost interest in it by 41 and saw an allied invasion of Italy as unlikely to succeed if they just let them have Africa. That may explain why they moved on to Russia as it offered vast oil fields, it was already on Hitler’s European tour scheduled, and they believed they could knock the Soviets out within a few months
