First, on the ME itself- how would the Middle East in a Nazi Reich Victory or a Hitler looks elsewhere TL have responded to the Axis showing up in their neighborhood?
Which nations would have, given the chance, joined the Axis? This doesn't mean they were intrinsincally pro-fascist or anti-Semitic, but also possibly just pro-German and anti-British/French.
I'd say:
Egypt (Muslim Brotherhood, plus even the King hired a lot of German advisors)
Iran (the Shah was famously famous friendly to the Germans)
Syria (Ba'ath presence)
Iraq (ditto)
Palestine (anti-British rule, after all)
Turkey is a toss-up. Just like in OTL, they could go either way.
I don't think Transjordan was much pro-Axis. They did have the Arab Legion, which turned out to be one of the best Arab fighting forces even though they were under British command... which means something, I guess.
I think the Saudis were actually very friendly with both the Brits and the Americans. Though there's always that famous bit about the Grand Mufti and 'islamofascism.'
I don't know anything about Lebanon. I think they would be under Vichy control, but what did the natives feel?
As for other Axis puppet regimes-
South Africa almost always seems to be a willing vassal to the Axis, but hey, they were Apartheid and Germanic by ancestry.
Most ATLs have the nations of Latin America responding differently, but Peronist Argentina surely had good relations with the fascists.
Which nations would have, given the chance, joined the Axis? This doesn't mean they were intrinsincally pro-fascist or anti-Semitic, but also possibly just pro-German and anti-British/French.
I'd say:
Egypt (Muslim Brotherhood, plus even the King hired a lot of German advisors)
Iran (the Shah was famously famous friendly to the Germans)
Syria (Ba'ath presence)
Iraq (ditto)
Palestine (anti-British rule, after all)
Turkey is a toss-up. Just like in OTL, they could go either way.
I don't think Transjordan was much pro-Axis. They did have the Arab Legion, which turned out to be one of the best Arab fighting forces even though they were under British command... which means something, I guess.
I think the Saudis were actually very friendly with both the Brits and the Americans. Though there's always that famous bit about the Grand Mufti and 'islamofascism.'
I don't know anything about Lebanon. I think they would be under Vichy control, but what did the natives feel?
As for other Axis puppet regimes-
South Africa almost always seems to be a willing vassal to the Axis, but hey, they were Apartheid and Germanic by ancestry.
Most ATLs have the nations of Latin America responding differently, but Peronist Argentina surely had good relations with the fascists.