Operation Felix

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Operation Felix
Part of the Western Front of the Second World War
Invasion plans of Nazi Germany and probable routes of British invasion.[1][2]
Operational scope	Iberian Peninsula
Planned	June–August 1940
Planned by	OKW
Objective	Capture Gibraltar
Outcome	Eventual cancellation and diversion of German forces

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Operation Felix (German: Unternehmen Felix) was the codename for a proposed German Wehrmacht campaign to cross into Spain and to seize Gibraltar early in the Second World War. The planned operation presupposed the co-operation of the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco; it did not occur chiefly because of Franco's reluctance to enter the war - partially due^{[citation needed]} to the influence of British intelligence.