in April 1939 that oil supplies from Romania would be sufficient to cover Germany’s needs only if the country was occupied by German troops, and if the entire Romanian oil industry, in which France and Britain currently held the dominant share, was turned over to production for Germany.86 The fundamental problem for Berlin was that in the aftermath of Prague, with Britain and France united and apparently able to count on the support of the United States, any conventional strategic analysis suggested that Germany was outmatched.
