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But the real issue was whether the British would still have a place to fight the Germans on land when U.S. aid becomes effective. The German aim was clearly to eliminate the whole of the Middle East and the whole of North Africa—as the whole of Europe had already been eliminated—from the areas of the world where British soldiers and U.S. arms might attack German soldiers and arms. If this could be done, there would be few places left where the U.S. could support a British attack against the Nazis.