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German armies poised on the outer borders of the industrial Donets Basin. But they did not have its mines, power plants and factories, or its roads to Caucasian oil. The Germans had forced a huge segment of Russia's industry back into the Urals, but they had not even won the approaches to that rear reservoir of might, where Russia's armies could be partly supplied even if most of Russia was lost. The Germans had the Crimea, they had Kerch on the Black Sea. But on their anniversary date they did not yet-not quite -have Sevastopol...
Above all, they did not have the Caucasus and its oil. An oft-told tale is Hitler's compelling need of oil, the abundance of which beckons him to Maikop and Baku. But another fact also draws him southward to the Caucasus: the Russians, too, must have Caucasian...
Once again the Aryans are bound for the Caucasian gates. Through these gates, said the ancients, the Asiatics descended upon Europe; among them were racial groups which some ethnologists later labeled Aryan.* Now Adolf Hitler's self-styled Aryans, going the other way, are preparing to storm the gates of the Caucasus again...
Germany's hope of reopening the Caucasian gates is not a matter of sentimental Aryan sightseeing. It springs from painful necessity. In the Caucasus lie the huge stores of oil that power the defenses of Russia. By cutting that supply Adolf Hitler would not only score a painful blow to the enemy; he would also get fuel and lubricants that the German war machine must have...
...lush valleys in the south have offered a natural highway for migrating hordes. Its mountains, higher than any in Europe, run from northwest to southeast and form natural bastions for defenders. Successive waves of Persians, Khazars, Arabs, Huns, Turko-Mongols and Russians have died in defense of narrow Caucasian mountain passes, or in trying to storm them...