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Italy First instead of Germany First?

The US and British leadership in the Second World War followed the so called “Europe First” or sometimes called “Germany First” strategy, meaning that there was a focus on defeating Germany first and after that focus against the Japanese in the Pacific. Many of the US military leaders were not particularly happy about this arrangement between Roosevelt and Churchill. Additionally, if we look closer, in practice it was not “Germany First” but “Italy first”. Cover Design by vonKickass. Videos referenced in this video: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTZmW3qz3Js Wolfpack Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La6BM3HnU98 Was the Afrika Korps worth it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD8eic4uLUw Tactics - Operations - Strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yk0gROTHnI Why was the Wehrmacht so effective? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgQglp7OZcA »» SUPPORT MHV «« » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » patreon - https://www.patreon.com/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » Book Wishlist https://www.amazon.de/gp/registry/wishlist/3LJIXNJIUXJES/ref=cm_wl_huc_view?language=en_GB »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « Fennell, Jonathan: Fighting the People’s War. The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, 2019 Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2G6ylLs Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2UCTVtV Wagner, Gerhard (Hrsg.): Lagevorträge des Oberbefehlshabers der Kriegsmarine vor Hitler 1939-1945. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag: München, 1972 amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2WBKSLo Citino, Robert M.: The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943. University Press Kansas, USA, 2012. Amazon.com (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2rtOdkm Amazon.de (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2mWaTEp Ball, Simon: The Mediterranean and North Africa, 1940-1944, in: Cambridge History of the Second World War – Volume I, p. 358-388 Amazon.com (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2zX5ZMB Amazon.de (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2z5j1bF Cambridge History of the Second World War. Volume I: Fighting the War. Cambridge University Press: UK, 2015. Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2BSM3h5 Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2SWVuXi Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Band 3: Der Mittelmeerraum und Südosteuropa 1940-1941 (English Version below) Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2DZoPnz ENGLISH VERSION: Germany and the Second World War, Volume 3, The Mediterranean, South-east Europe, and North Africa, 1939-1941 Amazon.com link (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2I8eJ6C Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg – Band 6 – Der Globale Krieg Amazon.de link (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2igUEAm ENGLISH VERSION: Germany and the Second World War – Volume 6 – The Global War Amazon.com (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2iSsxut Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg – Band 8 Amazon.de (affiliate): http://amzn.to/2z6bN7j ENGLISH VERSION: Germany and the Second World War – Volume 8 – The Eastern Front 1943-1944: The War in the East and on the Neighbouring Fronts Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2H5sRhB Rohwer, Jürgen: Critical Convoy Battles of WWII. Crisis in the North Atlantic, March 1943. Stackpole Books: Mechanicsburg (US), 1977 (2015). Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2HoR81q Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2HMsUSp Milner, Marc: Battle of the Atlantic. The History Press: Gloucestershire, 2003 (2011). Amazon.com (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2IZSi4B Amazon.de (affiliate): https://amzn.to/2J5lKWP » DISCLAIMER « As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Als Amazon-Partner verdiene ich an qualifizierten Käufen. » CREDITS & SPECIAL THX « Song: Ethan Meixsell - Demilitarized Zone #ItalyFirst #GermanyFirst #WW2