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(10-10-2019, 04:24 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: The Japanese made it as far as Burma, just East of India. They felt that if they reached the India border, they could have awakened an uprising among the people there (to some degree that could have been possible, they were able to recruit Indian troops into their army). The German attempt focused on swaying Turkey, the coup in Iraq and an attempt to seize Persia (only possible if Army Group South took and held Stalingrad). The Turkey remained wishy-washy, the coup failed and Stalingrad didn't, thus their plans failed.

Swaying Turkey had the obvious obstacle--a REPEAT of choosing the losing side.

India was another matter. There was much agitation for independence. British responses were at times overly brutal, like the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre which killed 400 unarmed, peaceful protestors. The British let loose yet another famine (like the Bengal one of the 1850s) in 1942 by commandeering Indian rice for the war effort. So Japanese talk of a "Greater East-Asia Prosperity Sphere" which could include South Asia would fall on some eager ears, along with the goal of throwing off the yoke of the White Devil. I suspect, though, the occupation of China made potential partners very wary of what a Japanese occupation might really be like.

Looks like the Japanese almost had their end of the land bridge under control. Germans let the Kurds (and Persians and Russians) stop them. lol