Word: caucasians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caucasian Campaign was for oil, and last week the Germans lost Maikop, the only oil center they had captured. They also lost a controlling point (Tikhoretsk) on the rail line connecting Rostov with the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, the Germans' only alternate way of retreat from the Caucasus, and that alternative was itself being threatened near Krasnodar. The Stalingrad area had been almost cleared (see below), releasing troops and freeing rail lines for the Rostov battles...
...successful, would: 1) complete the entrapment of the Axis armies in the Don-Volga area; 2) bar the Germans' way of retreat to their last summer's line (Taganrog-Kharkov-Kursk-Orel) ; 3) finally doom the halting German drive in the Caucasus, perhaps cut off the Caucasian armies' last line of supply and retreat through the Crimea; 4) force the Germans to draw further on their dwindling reserves...
MOSCOW--Russian tanks went into action against the German spearhead stalled in the central Caucasus yesterday and wreeked or crippled 40 enemy tanks in fierce battle which further cased the threat to the Caucasian oil riches, the Red Army reported today
...prospect of an oil shortage is based on a possibility, a probability and a fact. The possibility is that Hitler may take the Iraq-Caucasian-Iranian oilfields, leaving the United Nations totally dependent on the Western Hemisphere for oil. The probability is that gasoline and fuel oil rationing will be more than offset by a huge rise in military oil consumption-as new armadas of U.S. planes take to the sky, as new armies of U.S. tanks take to the field, as the second-ocean Navy and the seven-seas merchant marine take to the water. The fact is that...
London heard that, if Stalingrad fell, Hitler intended to stabilize the Russian front behind strong fortifications (except perhaps for a push toward the Baku oilfields along the Caspian shore rather than through the freezing Caucasian passes). Such stability would allow Hitler to turn perhaps 70 of his 215 Russian divisions into the Middle East, reinforce his western front, and return skilled workers to the factories from the army. A push toward Suez and the Indian Ocean would pull the United Nations' attention away from the Continent and, if successful, would be a disaster doubtless prolonging the war for years...