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War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire

War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire

Eichholtz, Dietrich
Broadwin, John A.

Hardcover

Technology & EngineeringGerman HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1597977217
ISBN13: 9781597977210
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: Jun 1 2012
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
As Hitler's Einsatzgruppen (mobile SS killing units) marched into the Soviet Union directly behind the advancing Wehrmacht to murder Jews and others, less well-known units were also following in the footsteps of the German armed forces. They were called, among other things, petroleum units, petroleum commissions, or technical brigades. Their mission was to seize and exploit the oil-producing areas of the conquered territories.

Having pillaged oil in Poland, France, and the Low Countries, these predatory units were the latest examples of Nazi Germany's relentless efforts before and during World War II to achieve self-sufficiency in fuel.

But only in the East--first in the Soviet Union and then in the Middle East--could Hitler find sufficient quantities of oil to free Germany of all external dependency and allow him to wage war indefinitely. To achieve his aim, Hitler envisioned his armored columns advancing through North Africa and the Caucasus to a juncture somewhere in the Near East in what Martin Blumenson called the most gigantic pincer movement in history.

In this prodigiously researched study, historian Dietrich Eichholtz tells the story of Nazi Germany's plans to establish a global oil empire, from the plan's inception in 1938 to its collapse in 1943.

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