Word: caucasians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turkey is an obvious hot spot for 1942. Adolf Hitler needs Turkey if he is to close out U.S. and British aid to Russia when he strikes again for the Caucasian oilfields. The United Nations need Turkey as a buffer for both the Caucasus and the Suez Canal-and some day, as an invasion point into Europe...
...patrols could give the Germans a powerful screen for an attempted crossing to the Caucasian mainland. Once there they would not only be in a position to wheel around and strike at the Don line from the rear, but could reach out for the oil fields around Maikop, less than 200 miles to the southeast...
...vital objective in all Russia is the Caucasus. On that bridge of land between the Black and Caspian Seas lie fields which give Russia 93% of her war-blood: oil. Last week the British appeared to have made the crucial decision to help the Russians keep Hitler away from Caucasian oil as long as possible...
...great obstacle to Adolf Hitler's objectives (Odessa, Sevastopol, the great Caucasian oilfields) is the mine-strewn Dardanelles, whose reduction by capture or persuasion would allow Axis warships to enter the Black Sea and attack the Russian Navy. Bulgaria's threat was as much against Turkey as it was against Russia directly...
...huge oil production-Hitler's most pressing need-and it is chiefly in the great Baku and North Caucasus fields-190,000,000 barrels a year, as against a 1940 German consumption of only 35,000,000 barrels. All but 10% of this possible prize is protected by Caucasian mountain bastions, could be strongly defended. And the fields could be fired, so that it would probably be two years before anything like full production could be restored. Moreover, Russia has needed almost all of her oil ever since she lost 15,000,000 horses by famine or slaughter (some...