World War Two
Published 16 Oct 2021The Americans win a naval victory off Guadalcanal and even manage to reinforce the Marines there with the first Army units to arrive, but as the week ends the Japanese launch a major offensive on the island. Meanwhile far across the globe, Adolf Hitler orders that all German offensive operations except those at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus cease. There is plenty to do in Stalingrad, though, because this week all hell breaks loose there.
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From the comments:
World War Two
3 days ago
Adolf Hitler has ordered that the entirety of the German offensives be focused on Stalingrad and the Caucasus Mountains. The belief is held by many that German conquest of the oil in this region would win them the war.In his book Wages of Destruction historian Adam Tooze comments on the absurdity of this all. Here is what Tooze had to say about the assumption by Nazi synthetics industrialist Carl Krauch that he would be able to raise air fuel production to 3 million tons following the conquest of the Caucases:
Here was the perverse logic of Barbarossa in a nutshell. The conquest of the oilfields of the Caucasus, 2,000 kilometres deep in the Soviet Union, was not treated as the awesome military-industrial undertaking that it was. It was inserted as a precondition into another gargantuan industrial plan designed to allow the Luftwaffe to fight an air war, not against the Soviet Union, but against the looming air fleet of Britain and the United States. p.452
