What happened with my Syria?

[thomaha]

Playing Turkey trying to activate the Ottoman event I started my own faction with Yugoslavia. Came to October 1941 and things where going fine. Had taken Bulgaria, the Middle East and was fighting with the Allies in Libya while jusitfying against Iraq and the Saudis, when out of nowhere Syria converted to Germany. No German units in sight and we even have a Non aggression pact. I also had some 24 divisions there waiting for the invasion of Iraq. Anyone know what could have happened or how I could find out?
I checked log files in the log catalogue, but nothing interesting there and no in game EUIV style log that I know.

Playing Iron Man, so no going back either. This pretty much ruined my game .

 

[fallgelb22061940]

Did Germany case Anton?

 

[thomaha]

Did Germany case Anton?

How could I find out when there is no log?

 

[--Yigito123--]

How could I find out when there is no log?

Because Vichy France would not exist on the map anymore if Germany did Case Anton? I'm guessing you were fascist and occupying Syria, since you couldn't have gotten ownership of it in a peace deal if France is still fighting Germany. If that is the case, then Vichy France was the owner of Syria, and you were just occupying it; when Germany annexed Vichy via Case Anton, you were forced to give it to Germany since the land was still "owned" by Vichy France and Vichy got fully annexed by Germany.

 

[thomaha]

Because Vichy France would not exist on the map anymore if Germany did Case Anton? I'm guessing you were fascist and occupying Syria, since you couldn't have gotten ownership of it in a peace deal if France is still fighting Germany. If that is the case, then Vichy France was the owner of Syria, and you were just occupying it; when Germany annexed Vichy via Case Anton, you were forced to give it to Germany since the land was still "owned" by Vichy France and Vichy got fully annexed by Germany.

That I could understand if we where in the same faction, but we where not even allied. You are probably right, this is what happened - but an event should not move territory of third party nations like that.

 

[--Yigito123--]

That I could understand if we where in the same faction, but we where not even allied. You are probably right, this is what happened - but an event should not move territory of third party nations like that.

Yeah, that's the complication though. It wasn't "third party territory", it still belonged to Vichy France: You were just occupying it. Maybe changing ownership shouldn't automatically erase occupations, and you're probably right about that and there should be logic for handling it, but that's how it works currently. The ability of fascist and communists to occupy the land of nations not at war with them does cause weirdness like that to crop up every so often, because it's a weird mechanic in and of itself.