Oil - Hitler's Only Chance to Win the War? - WW2 Special
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Күн бұрынWell, we all know by know that the Wehrmacht is driving into the Caucasus to try and take the Soviet oilfields, but how bad is their oil situation, actually? And how will they get it out of the ground if the Soviets sabotage the fields and wells? What exactly is the plan? Let's find out.
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Director: Astrid Deinhard
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Research by: Indy Neidell
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Johnathan Dimbleby, 'Operation Barbarossa"
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@QuizmasterLaw 2 жыл бұрын
WW2? Why yes, that is the CLASH of the TIE TANS
@QuizmasterLaw 2 жыл бұрын
I know it's a fresh upload the CC button hasn't appeared yet, but in case you didn't autocaption it you should for the non-native speakers, even though it's clearly narrated some people are deaf and others are ESL
@QuizmasterLaw 2 жыл бұрын
Though generalist your financial histories of the third reich are accurate and interesting and I would encourage you to particularly consider the Reichs 1. Taxation and 2. Finances (MeFo, OeffA bills) As the adage says "Gold is the sinews of war." Tik did MeFo but his analysis is a bit superficial as it doesn't consider their role in trade and countertrade and No One has looked at the Reichs taxation system -- it wasn't ALL plunder and expropriation.
@Raskolnikov70 2 жыл бұрын
@@QuizmasterLaw The caps are working now. I'm one of those hard of hearing people who needs them, and sometimes it takes a little while for them to get uploaded with the video. No biggie, they always show up eventually.
@QuizmasterLaw 2 жыл бұрын
@@Raskolnikov70 great, thank you. can ask you to do us a favor? please go to the US state department's youtube videos and pester them on this exact point. i can't believe it but their videos are often inaccessible for the blind or hearing impaired, DOUBLE PAINBOW
@thomasbernecky2078 2 жыл бұрын
finally, logistics with real numbers. thanks Indy.
@richardcutts196 2 жыл бұрын
@@dixztube Thinking the same thing.
@oldcremona 2 жыл бұрын
Indy is best of the KZfaq military historians.
@CarrotConsumer 2 жыл бұрын
Read Wages of Destruction lads.
@markrobinson9956 2 жыл бұрын
Well said, thank you Thomas!
@normanwells2755 2 жыл бұрын
At 5:07 he skipped three decimal places. But this is entertainment.
@markfagohii8632 2 жыл бұрын
This is an under-rated episode. I've always heard the argument "if Germany made it to the caucuses" but never thought or heard of the steps ahead that they would have had to undertake to make any use of the oil!
@bsgvlog5640 2 жыл бұрын
If they had made this say their primary objective at the start of the Soviet war they might have had a shot at winning the war . Good thing they didn’t 😅
@thepsychicspoon5984 2 жыл бұрын
@@bsgvlog5640 No. You can't just pluck it out the ground and its good to go. It has to be drilled, packaged, shiped, refined, packaged and shipped again. Not to mention all that travel it tales to get there. Who is to say that that the Soviets won't scorched earth that too. Remember the oil fires of Desert Storm. It took months to put those out with the latest tech in 1991.
@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 2 жыл бұрын
Astrakhan was a pipe dream. Stalingrad was a bridge too far as was the entire eastern front. The Wehrmacht was not in a position to operate a broad front war in the east. Hitler wanted to bully Stalin to the negotiation table.
@jarradscarborough7915 2 жыл бұрын
yeah, it seems the main value from attacking this area wasn't to take the oil, but to prevent the soviets from using it. it wouldn't have required a major offensive to do that.
@sergiojuanmembiela6223 2 жыл бұрын
Also the British developed a plan to bomb the Caucasus oil fields from Iraq should Germany capture them. Their assessment was that the oil fields were poorly managed, with lots of oil leaks, and that a few bombs would have caused a level of destruction that would have rendered the fields worthless for a very long time.
@kenobi90000 2 жыл бұрын
Both Japan and Germany in WW2: If we take the resources several hundred kilometers away, they just appear back home, right? This is HoI4, not real life after all.
@nickdanger3802 2 жыл бұрын
As I understand it. Pre 1940 about half of Japans' shipping was leased from nations that would fall to Germany in 1940. That shipping was used by Germany or Britain to the end of the war.
@thedeadcannotdie 2 жыл бұрын
By the way Hitler micromanages stuff happening on the front lines, it does seem he's treating this whole thing like hoi4. And he's not good at the game...
@nesa1126 2 жыл бұрын
I thoght that the olan was to capture, or, more likely build raffinery there, near Baku in Kawkaz...
@PoggoMcDawggo 2 жыл бұрын
@@felixmeschenmoser7979 Can you imagine the naval siren spam going on in june 1944. Dude must've been covering his ears yelling "Make it stop!"
@ohhhSmooth 2 жыл бұрын
Resources were a part of the supply system in HOI3 but it was a huge pain in the a**. I once concurred california as Japan in MP and the massive amounts of oil used up all my convoy reserves making my army starve to death right in the US.
@jimmypenrose1401 2 жыл бұрын
Ironic that in the North Sea - right off of the north coast of Germany - was one of the largest reserves of the best crude oil in the world. North Sea crude is the highest grade stuff on the planet and they were practically sitting on a never ending supply of it. A good thing nobody knew about it until 30 years after the war ended.
@ohnoa2 2 жыл бұрын
to be fair tho i dont think the technology existed at the time to drill and extract oil under the sea
@angeledduirbonesu1989 2 жыл бұрын
Just think about the oil present in Libya. If Italy would have discovered those large reserves, just imagine the damage
@aleksaradojicic8114 2 жыл бұрын
@@angeledduirbonesu1989 I think they even had some limitad knowlage about Lybian oil. But establishing hole infastructure would take years.
@GeorgeSemel 2 жыл бұрын
Even if they did, the know-how and the ability to drill that deep didn't come about till the mid to late 1960s. Besides, you can't run an offshore oil field without Helicopters and those machines didn't show up till the late 1950s and early to mid-1960s. The best crude you can get today is from shale oil fields it's as pure as you can get out of the ground. North Sea Crude is very very good and very valuable as we know. In the 1940s offshore drilling was in its infancy. I use to work in the Gulf of Mexico in offshore Oil production support. What I did was flying crews around to oil production platforms in a helicopter! It's moving back to shore with the Shale Oil Production. And with prices for crude at around 70, a barrel people are happy about it. Me on the other hand well I retired in March.
@Raskolnikov70 2 жыл бұрын
@@angeledduirbonesu1989 That might have been the better option too, as far as logistics and infrastructure go - building up an entire oil extraction industry vs. cleaning up the one destroyed by the Soviets as they fled Maikop and Grozny. They would have had to quit pussyfooting around with Malta and drive the Brits out of the Mediterranean, but it would have been do-able.
@kevinbyrne4538 2 жыл бұрын
In North Africa, the British and the Germans accused each other of poisoning the water wells. They didn't realize that petroleum was gushing up beneath their feet.
@ballagh 2 жыл бұрын
It’s one of those strange what ifs. What if Italy had discovered oil in Libya before the war. Money for Italy and resources for the axis could have been a game changer.
@stevekaczynski3793 2 жыл бұрын
In the film "The Brest Fortress", Soviet troops under siege at the start of Barbarossa are digging for water, as the Germans have cut their normal water supply. Some liquid is discovered but the soldier who tastes it spits it out as there is oil in it. So undrinkable.
@Ironpancakemoose Ай бұрын
If the Italians discovered the oil a few years prior, they'd be producing almost as much oil as the Soviets.
@Mfields4517 Ай бұрын
@@ballaghitaly didnt have the shipping capacity to move the oil
@rtqii Ай бұрын
@@stevekaczynski3793 I lived in South Texas and a neighbor in the Terlingua Ranch Valley drilled a well and hit water that had light petroleum fumes, it was okay for bathing but I never drank it. They used it to water goats and witnessed severe reproductive problems until they stopped, but they were drinking the goat milk. There were six of them, only two are alive today.
@jasatotakouzeno4674 2 жыл бұрын
Indy talking about WWI feels so nostalgic
@astrobullivant5908 2 жыл бұрын
Should it? WWI was definitely always on the minds of the officers on both sides of this war. It's pretty cool to watch episodes from this series interspersed with Indy's WWI videos.
@neilwilson5785 2 жыл бұрын
Nostalgia for the 48th battle of the Isonzo river feels strange, but you are right.
@astrobullivant5908 2 жыл бұрын
@@neilwilson5785 The nostalgia is for Indy's documentary on WWI, not the war itself.
@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 2 жыл бұрын
Really takes me back
@jamesbretney2973 2 жыл бұрын
@@astrobullivant5908 Indy Neidell will always be remembered for his great contribution to understanding the first world war
@binaway 2 жыл бұрын
It took 11 tonnes of coal to make 1 tonne of synthetic fuel. On the eastern front 10 litres of petrol was required to get 1 litre to the front. It was expensive and required a huge labor force. The productions plants were huge and couldn't be hidden. POW's who walked past a destroyed plant in Poland described it as resembling black spaghetti.
@timothyclark58 2 жыл бұрын
It’s always fun watching an episode when it’s just come out, feels like watching a live tv news special of the time lol
@Raskolnikov70 2 жыл бұрын
Or a radio broadcast, since that's still how most people got their latest news updates in 1942 :)
@Robin4 2 жыл бұрын
I agree entirely! I always watch a new episode if i see it just came out
@bobbybobby9639 2 жыл бұрын
@@Robin4 aquarium a
@oldcremona 2 жыл бұрын
Indy is the best.
@ErminDedicNT 2 жыл бұрын
Yet, a lot of spoilers...
@thanos_6.0 2 жыл бұрын
*I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THIS FANTASTIC CHANNEL!*
@nicholasrusson8978 2 жыл бұрын
I mis-read your comment as saying "this fantasy channel" and I was going to play along as if this was some alternate history stuff and the "real" WW2 played out very differently. But I'm pretending to be mature today, so I won't...
@Raskolnikov70 2 жыл бұрын
You sound as excited as Goering at the all-you-can-eat schnitzel and Pervitin buffet :)
@thanos_6.0 2 жыл бұрын
@@Raskolnikov70 LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@morisco56 2 жыл бұрын
*enough
@thanos_6.0 2 жыл бұрын
@@morisco56 Thanks. Corrected it
@yukikaze3436 2 жыл бұрын
Oil in Germany was so short that in mid 1943 they had to cut back the training program for aircrew.
@stevekaczynski3793 2 жыл бұрын
Their opponents, British and American but even Soviet fliers, noticed that many German pilots later in the war were basically novices. The mega-aces attract far more attention but by 1944 many Germans went operational while barely knowing how to fly their planes. And this was mainly due to fuel shortages.
@gilbertjones9157 2 жыл бұрын
The drop in Romanian Oil production in one year before the bombing is huge and speaks volumes.
@genekelly8467 2 жыл бұрын
Was this because Romanai could no longer import Hughes tool Co. drill bits? They were the best in the world at the time.
@donaldharris3037 2 жыл бұрын
@@genekelly8467 I think the fields were starting to dry up even before the war
@Nothing-1w3 2 жыл бұрын
@@donaldharris3037 Romanian oil fields dried up?
@miguelp8249 2 жыл бұрын
Are you sure about the tonnage??? 29.000 T a year the USSR and "a meager 79.000 T a month" Romania???
@livnorium4207 2 жыл бұрын
@@genekelly8467 Romanian,not romani
@NickRatnieks 2 жыл бұрын
The word "overreach" was just another word for the phrase "lack of commitment" as far as those in charge were concerned.
@markrobinson9956 2 жыл бұрын
It also revealed Hitler's profound failure to understand logistics, and a deeper unwillingness to listen to those people who did understand. Ignorance and arrogance is a dangerous combination.
@sedargames8161 2 жыл бұрын
@@markrobinson9956 Except Hitler did understand logistics and his generals did not. Hence Halder's insane ideas of concentrating on Moscow and the general attitude of prioritising army group centre over south.
@chuckwingo11 2 жыл бұрын
One point that seems to have been overlooked: even if the Germans took years to restore the oil fields, they would immediately deprive the Soviets of them. The Germans would still face shortages, but the situation on the Soviet side would be even worse. Certainly the allies would do what they could to supply the Soviets with oil, but they would have the capacity or transport to make up that kind of loss.
@Translucent73 2 жыл бұрын
The Soviets could get all the the oil and equipment they needed from the United States and Great Britain via Murmansk, so no big deal for the Soviets. No significant transport problems. The war would have lasted longer perhaps if the Germans where able to take the whole Caucasus region assuming Axis casualties weren't horrendous in the process of taking it balancing out the gains and losses.
@bozo5632 2 жыл бұрын
They weren't concerned with defeating the Soviets. That was going to be quick and easy, so attrition and economics weren't relevant. But they needed the oil ASAP to fight England.
@prashantyes1461 2 жыл бұрын
Murmansk port freezes in Artic and there is a big deficit of 80% if Baku goes... Red Army is life less
@ArmyJames 2 жыл бұрын
@@prashantyes1461 PERSIAN CORRIDOR.
@prashantyes1461 2 жыл бұрын
@@ArmyJames Baku sucess is only ensured if Stalingrad is Won.. Persian corridor wouldn't make any sense as those supplies need to go from Volga only. Wehrmacht won't stop ideally at Stlaingard they have a double road to Astrakhan...even fall of Volga is enough to for Stalemate which Stalin admited in Order 227
@CivilWarWeekByWeek 2 жыл бұрын
Fighting for Oil, sure hope this doesn't become a trend
@andmos1001 2 жыл бұрын
Actually it became a trend in world war 1
@Paciat 2 жыл бұрын
Wars for oil are far less bloody then ideological wars... Too bad WWII was both.
@perihelion7798 2 жыл бұрын
Continuing trend, sadly. The oil production of the US is rather phenomenal, or it was recently, until green gnomes took over our government...
@simonshiels1 2 жыл бұрын
It ll be more like water...esp in the mid east and Egypt v Ethiopia
@hadtopicausername 2 жыл бұрын
And this is before we've even mentioned Germany's rubber shortage. No rubber equals no tyres for military vehicles like trucks and Kübelwagens, even if they do have all the fuel they need. Which they didn't.
@RouGeZH 2 жыл бұрын
You can make synthetic rubber from oil. By targeting the Caucasus the Germans were trying to kill two birds with one stone.
@hadtopicausername 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, but at what price, and would they have had the capacity to make enough of the stuff? The German's lack of resources was just chronic. Also, how the heck were they going to transport all of that oil west? By rail? With what trains, and on what railways? This was all a huge pipe dream.
@kenoliver8913 Жыл бұрын
@@hadtopicausername After the fall of Malaya and the Philippines the allies were able to very quickly build synthetic rubber plants. But with plentiful oil, money and expertise this is very doable. Had Germany managed to get enough oil flowing (which was not going to happen though) their rubber shortage would have quickly eased.
@josiah-sv3ig Жыл бұрын
As an oil well service rigger in Canada I can testify that the German high command is definitely underestimating the job ahead of them
@marcelomarques8664 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the Brazilian flag! This week marks the first battle of Força Expedicionária Brasileira (Brazilian Expeditionary Force) in Italy! Great work!
@TeacherFigueiro 2 жыл бұрын
Também sou brasileiro, acompanho este canal há anos, desde o “the Great War”
@raphaelalexsander5158 2 жыл бұрын
@@TeacherFigueiro To maratonando o The Great War , o conteúdo é mt bom
@macleunin 2 жыл бұрын
The series is still in 1942, the FEB only went to Italy in 1944, but maybe they will say something about U-Boats sinking brazilian ships and the pressure for Brazil to declare War on the Axis.
@RenanBecker 2 жыл бұрын
@@macleunin governo brasileiro declarou guerra ao eixo em Agosto de 1942
@macleunin 2 жыл бұрын
@@RenanBecker sim, mas o combate da Feb só começou em 1944.
@danielmocsny5066 2 жыл бұрын
In the list of oil-related products I was surprised to hear no mention of propane and propane accessories, sold notably by one Heinrich Hill.
@fredgarv79 2 жыл бұрын
yes and his friends Dale Goebbels and Bill Borman
@nomobobby 2 жыл бұрын
Was propane in any kind of use during the war is it more recent invention? Now I'm curious
@everythingsalright1121 Ай бұрын
@@nomobobby as far as i could find prior to wwii propane seemed to be relegated to cooking use more than any direct combat use
@somebody754 2 жыл бұрын
Hitler to his generals: "Oil have a plan to save the war!"
@TheCurlsCrazy 2 жыл бұрын
men, this is a bad one..
@wojszach4443 2 жыл бұрын
Halder: hold my beer I know better than him one war later:Madman Hitler
@randyalleyn8372 2 жыл бұрын
Nyuk! Nyuk!
@kleinweichkleinweich 2 жыл бұрын
thank God he didn't
@wojszach4443 2 жыл бұрын
@@kleinweichkleinweich oh yeah, if Halder listened to his boss we would be in quite a problematic situation
@kellyfreas 2 жыл бұрын
After all, Germany's poor supply of oil led to the man on the Moon some 25 years later. As the oil shortage became serious, they started to push less oil dependant technologies, like rocketry. A V2's fuel was basically 40 tonne of potato.
@valdoom22345 2 жыл бұрын
I'm so excited that someone has finally mentioned the German synthetic oil industry. Your numbers for the oil industry were very enlightening. I have heard from a few sources in the past that German synthetic oil was purer and had better octane numbers than conventionally drilled oil. This provided the luftwaffe with a small fuel advantage until around late 1943-1944 when American oil additives finally got their octane numbers to similar levels. Did you happen to notice anything like this in your research? Thanks again, great work as always!
@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
@Predanator99 2 жыл бұрын
You my friend have a talent. A talent to give me a lot of facts and numbers and still make it interesting. You and your kind of people are the spirit of education.
@striatic 2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been wondering about this for years. The whole drive on the caucuses seems predicated on the idea that securing the oil fields is effectively the same as having the oil immediately available for productive use in Germany. This always struck me as sort of a pipe dream without the pipe lines, so to speak.
@shawnr771 2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps it was a crack pipe.
@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music 2 жыл бұрын
Taking that oil away from the Russians would have an effect tho.
@koj2698 2 жыл бұрын
@@crazydiamondrequiem4236 Simply false. Those oil fields the lifeblood that kept Red Army alive. Most people forget that you also carry foods machine parts soldiers with trucks (that use fuel obviously). And also Germans would cut the lend lease route and even maybe strike towards middle east even. Also Turkey and Japan planned to attack USSR had Caucasus was taken. Even Stalin told his oil minister, Baibakov, that if scortched earth policy on our own refineries causes our tanks to run short on fuel, you will be shot.
@striatic 2 жыл бұрын
@@koj2698 But it’s also true that the Soviets had shorter supply lines and non petrol powered rail lines to fall back on if the caucuses fell. They had eastern oil fields to bring online. With both sides still short on oil we wouldn’t see a Soviet drive on Germany but the war in the east could turn into a prolonged quagmire. I am not sure that taking the caucuses would be immediately war winning for Germany, given any difficulties quickly extracting and distributing the resources there.
@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 2 жыл бұрын
@@striatic the Germans were bleeding men and resources just advancing in the south, and really opened the wound when they tried to take Stalingrad. The economics back home and the logistics to keep an advance going were not there. Even before Paulus entered Stalingrad he was daily requesting more men and supplies, and they were not arriving in the numbers needed.
@Jelperman 2 жыл бұрын
There's an excellent book by Daniel Yergin (The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power) that covers much of this. It's informative and well-written.
@sdelmonte 2 жыл бұрын
“For the more level headed experts…”. Love it
@karlmuller3690 2 жыл бұрын
Alex Wittenberg - Yeah, like all the "experts" in the Comments Section!!
@stevenhaas9622 2 жыл бұрын
the ones not high AF on meth or morphine
@MrAmptech 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine how much fuel was Used/Destroyed/Wasted during the Wars of the 1900's.
@robertmaybeth3434 2 жыл бұрын
I know right, not to mention maybe a few human lives also
@davitdavid7165 2 жыл бұрын
Can you comprehend how much was lost due to all wars throughout history?
@MrAmptech 2 жыл бұрын
@@davitdavid7165 of course, that is why I posed the question. But I kept it more focused on a particular resource, one that is of specific focus today. That way more people could have a grasp of the issue. It may have even worked for you....
@eugeneoliveros5814 2 жыл бұрын
It’s always a good day when Special Episodes get released
@palibrae 2 жыл бұрын
5:15 oops! Those are millions of tons, not thousands, for yearly oil production totals. A crude error...
@DrJones20 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was looking for a comment pointing out the confusing numbers.
@aleksilysander6292 2 жыл бұрын
@@DrJones20 same here. spent 5 minutes calculating if i'm stupid or not
@hailexiao2770 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah there's no way Texas produces more oil in 12 hours in 2021 than all of the US did in 1941.
@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY 2 жыл бұрын
How hard is it to pin a comment addressing that? I have brought their attention to it, but they still don't even acknowledge an error. Bizarre.
@AlanDeAnda1 2 жыл бұрын
I'm not a chemist but heck, that syntethic oil production seems like a very pollutant process.
@karstenschuhmann8334 2 жыл бұрын
Well, it strongly increases the CO2 output, but otherwise the process can be rather clean, since waste gass processing is possible at the conversion plant. My farther was employed in building such a plant in South Africa. This way the Government of South Africa could avoid the oil embargo.
@QuizmasterLaw 2 жыл бұрын
Another advantage of fighting in the South is the winter is briefer. Still quite fierce but more like 5 months instead of 6.
@Raskolnikov70 2 жыл бұрын
Fewer issues with rear-area partisans as well. They'd still be a problem but there are far fewer places for them to hide and the Germans would have had an easier time dealing with them.
@stevekaczynski3793 2 жыл бұрын
In the Stalingrad fighting the Soviet troops received an issue of quilted winter jackets as the weather turned cold, but often not the matching quilted trousers. But they could do without the latter. In Moscow and even more in Leningrad anything less than the full winter issue made it impossible to fight.
@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 2 жыл бұрын
Which points to a bit of disadvantage which is that southern Russia is hot af in the summer. Panzer commanders frequently complained about the heat.
@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 2 жыл бұрын
Winter is tolerable with proper supplies, fuel, oil, food, etc., and a logistics system to keep the troops supplied. The winter itself did not hinder the war effort, it was the inability to deal with the harshness of winter conditions.
@yorick6035 2 жыл бұрын
9:09 unless you're Hitler of course, he can create the mother of all traffic jams without getting court martialed.
@michaelkovacic2608 2 жыл бұрын
😅😅😅
@mariosvourliotakis778 2 жыл бұрын
exactly the thought i had in mind when i heard that
@interestingengineering291 2 жыл бұрын
I thought oh there is a guy I want to report for this crime
@TheUstasha101 2 жыл бұрын
Germany did in fact have two large undiscovered oil fields right on its doorstep Matzen in Austria and Schoonebeek in the Netherlands - together these fields held over 1.5 Billion barrels of oil + Hungary too had a fair bit of oil as yet undiscovered Algyő (84 million tonnes) and Nagylengyel (45 million tonnes). In my opinion this is the ultimate what if, and really the only way germany could have won or at least got some kind of negotiated peace. I should also add that this more or less solves germany's rubber crisis (yes rubber too was in great demand and after oil the second most sought after resource) - giant resources needed for synthetic oil would be freed up and used for the production of synthetic rubber, thus solving that problem as well.
@dongately2817 2 жыл бұрын
The world today is on the verge of a "rubber apocalypse".
@brenokrug7775 2 жыл бұрын
When were those oil fields discovered?
@TheUstasha101 2 жыл бұрын
@@brenokrug7775 Schoonebeek was originally discovered in 1943 by the Dutch, but kept secret from the Germans, Matzen was discovered in 1949 and reached its peak production in 1955. I forgot to mention that Germany also had undiscovered oil fields ( mostly in Lower Saxony) here is a list: Ruhle -Founded 1949, Production reached 4.5 million in 1955, with depth being 850 meters. Georgsdorf-Founded 1944, yet not redrilled until 1946/47, Production reached 1.7 million in 1955, with depth being 800 meters. Emlichheim - Founded 1944, yet not redrilled until 1946/47, Production reached 1.1 million in 1955. Scheerhorn - Founded 1949, Production reached 1.1 million in 1959 with depth of 1150 meters. Barenburg - Founded 1953, Production reached 1.3 million in 1961(294k tonnes - 151k tonnes for 179 tonnes 1961), with deepest being 740 meters.There are a few more but these are the most important in my opinion, now if discovered in between 1933-1937, they would have caused a oil boom in Lower Saxony and likely motivated the Dutch to also start drilling -thus discovering Schoonebeek (almost all of the aforementioned fields are right on the Dutch border).
@brenokrug7775 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheUstasha101 Wow, that is indeed a major and yet very plausible "what if?". Thank you for your insight.
@slick4401 2 жыл бұрын
Good point.
@alih6953 2 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget Barbarossa was also Halder's baby as well. Franz Halder wrote the "clean Wehrmacht". He tried to rewrite history and say that no atrocities took place on the eastern front. He was the chief planner behind Barbarossa
@ElizaWebbg 11 ай бұрын
In the years after WW2 there was still Stalin and Stalinism, who’s to say their atrocities didn’t get tumbled onto the Germans as well? Stalin is allegedly responsible for 30,000,000 so it’s not out of the ballpark for some to be blamed on the German Occupation. Not saying German atrocities didn’t happen, but they were historically more about forming collaborators than squashing resistance.
@militarywargaming7840 2 жыл бұрын
This has been an excellent series and I wish to commend you for your efforts. Excellent research and presentation and deserves to be on TV. Best wishes
@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words!
@bruceraykiewicz6274 2 жыл бұрын
As a 78 year old man, born during the early part of WWII, and vaguely remembering our guys coming home in uniform, the facts that you bring out, I always find strikingly interesting. It never ceases to amaze me how out of reality the Nazis were. Or that Hitler was! It always seems strange to me that somehow, they did'nt consider, just the size(in miles) of the Soviet Union. And, the numbers of people(cannon fodder) that could be thrown at the German army. I'm fairly sure, the 'euphoria' of crushing a number of ill prepared and ill equipped countries, was to be another of the Nazi's Achilles heal. Thank you for your interesting videos.
@igorbednarski8048 2 жыл бұрын
It's because this traditional narrative blaming everyrhing on "madman Hitler" with the benefit of hindsight is stupid. Imagine you're the Germans in 1941. Your military career started with a VICTORIOUS war against Russia in WW1 (just 20 years ago). One year ago you saw the Soviet army get humiliated by a tiny Finnish force with basically no modern equipment. Why would this pathetic army not crumble under the attack of literally the most powerful army in human history (which, at that point in time, Wehrmacht was)? But no, Hitler was a stupid madman, not like the armchair generals commenting on the issue 80 years later
@joemorris3924 2 жыл бұрын
Just got recommended this video and I can already tell I’m going to watch a lot of this Chanel. I’ve been looking for in depth documentaries of ww2 like this for forever thank you for what you do 🙏
@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын
Welcome!
@ShubhamMishrabro 2 жыл бұрын
See the great war which covered ww1 it is in last years. They also have other channel glory.... Which covers prussia franco war day by day
@derigelfisch3776 2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact (local to me) about the oil situation in Germany: in the early 40s ('42-'43) oil wells were established in North-West Germany (particularly the Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim, my local area). The crude oil there was of a relatively low quality, however, and had to be transported through underground pipelines (since above ground transportation became impossible with intensifying bombing later on). Some of these oil wells are still in use to this day, as well. It was one of very few sources of crude oil Germany had within its own borders.
@Kay2kGer 2 жыл бұрын
moin in die grafschaft ausm harz
@Dustz92 2 жыл бұрын
9:13 I don't remember Hitler being court martialed
@stevekaczynski3793 2 жыл бұрын
He was lucky with the law. He started an armed putsch in 1923 in which several police and a number of his own followers were killed, and got just five years for it and only served about 20% of that. His luck would have run out if he had survived to Nuremberg, though.
@chandarsundaram1394 Жыл бұрын
Great Video Indy. Well organized and explained. Could you do an episode on Oil and Japan's war effort?
@yoinkhaha 2 жыл бұрын
What do Japan and Germany both have besides ingenuity, technology, culture, population? An imperial-level dearth of natural resources.
@perihelion7798 2 жыл бұрын
True enough, but, note that in the post-WWII world, both countries are doing extremely well in obtaining resources peacefully.
@yoinkhaha 2 жыл бұрын
@Fabian Kirchgessner ...then why is my electric bill so damn high. 🤨
@Babigoldfish 2 жыл бұрын
@@yoinkhaha closing nuclear plants?
@bozo5632 2 жыл бұрын
Russia would have been happy to sell both of them all the oil and raw materials they could eat. Still would.
@varana 2 жыл бұрын
@@yoinkhaha Because almost all of the black coal is gone now. (Iron as well.) And brown coal is horribly dirty and quite inefficient. Germany had those resources during the War; extracting what's left isn't economically feasible any more.
@cplservicegoranson35 2 жыл бұрын
My friend I read this quote : if I do not get the oil I must end this war. He was obviously aware of this necessity and the resources regarding the oil productions in the east.
@oldesertguy9616 2 жыл бұрын
It's hard to reconcile "the land where milk and honey flowed" with the images in my head of razed villages, scorched earth policies, etc.
@DrJones20 2 жыл бұрын
Same here.
@stevekaczynski3793 2 жыл бұрын
The Germans had problems with their propaganda, as they wanted German settlers to move to the east but their propaganda also depicted the Soviet Union as a backward place full of subhumans etc. They were going to have problems making Voronezh seem attractive to people from Verden.
@dr.barrycohn5461 2 жыл бұрын
The exact same thing with Japan. We used to export it to them, then they were forced to go elsewhere. Japan, like Germany was struggling with obtaining raw materials.
@diegocondepineiro8909 2 жыл бұрын
I recently saw the Interview of indy, in the it's History channel, and i have to say, he is a living Legend!
@elektrotehnik94 2 жыл бұрын
Can confirm, it's absolutely spectacular
@davidbrennan660 2 жыл бұрын
And that is just his selection of ties.
@nayas1885 2 жыл бұрын
I was hoping that you would finally tackle this topic!
@kleinweichkleinweich 2 жыл бұрын
Göring: I promise ... every other German: oh man, we are fucked
@maxmustermann5492 2 жыл бұрын
The numbers of oil production in the 10.000 tons range seems a little low for the top producers per year…
@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY 2 жыл бұрын
Hilarious errors. Borderline embarrassing.
@belbrighton6479 2 жыл бұрын
Adam Tooze’s book ‘wages of destruction’ gives an accessible and nuanced analysis for more nerdy joy. This episode puts the economic struggles into a context of the armed conflict and therefore provides additional insights. You have been covering how places like Auschwitz is a part of the economic struggles in your War on Humanity sub series, which is brutal to watch at times. Thank you for expertly covering the complexities of this epic conflict.
@joemacinnis1972 2 жыл бұрын
Dear sir, your videos are so informative and fascinating. Keep up the great work
@DoraFauszt 2 жыл бұрын
The whole episode sounds like a regular meeting at work 😀. I work in the oil industry, procuring raw materials for production. Currently there is such a severe shortage on the market in everything, that it resembles war-time state. Half of the terms what Indy says I say on a daily basis 😀
@lololomo5484 2 жыл бұрын
The globe has no shortage of oil. It has a "delivery" problem, made worse when Russian oil went off-line. The problem won't be solved soon.
@Idahoguy10157 2 жыл бұрын
For a dictator concerned with economics it’s impressive how much Hitler ignored the logistics of invading and occupying the USSR
@juansantos-lq2kz 2 жыл бұрын
Ideology trumped his economic intuition. But tanks don’t run on ideology.
@Tobiassaufus 2 жыл бұрын
@@juansantos-lq2kz Than we shall push them to the Urals
@MikeJones-qn1gz 2 жыл бұрын
They were on such a streak they figured Russia would be just as easy.
@simonshiels1 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting considering how much access the germans had to soviet territory prior to Operation Barbarrosa
@stevekaczynski3793 2 жыл бұрын
He wasn't so concerned with economics and in fact Stalin was probably more interested in it.
@ralphdude7 2 жыл бұрын
You said the USA was #1 in global oil production with 183,000 tons annually and then said Romania produced 361,600 tons monthly and that Germany produced 1,050,000 tons per year domestically. These figures don’t add up. Perhaps you confused barrels with tons?
@alextrickier4613 2 жыл бұрын
I was also confused and was looking for a clarification; it looks like Indy misspoke and said “thousand” instead of “million”. The US produced 182.7 _million_ metric tonnes of oil annually in 1940, followed by the USSR at 29.7 _million,_ and Venezuela at 27.4 _million._ Then comes Iran with 10.4 million tonnes, the Netherlands East Indies with 7.9 million tonnes, Mexico with 6.7 million tonnes, and Romania with 5.7 million tonnes (with the Ploiesti fields producing about 4.5 million tonnes of that per year).
@johnnyjet3.1412 2 жыл бұрын
And most was from California
@vuktodic1356 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe he forgot to add that it was not 183 k tons but 183 m tons per year Romania by that then produced almost 4.5 m tons per year
@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 2 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyjet3.1412 No... That's bullshit. California produced 15% of US oil in 1940s, or 28 million tonnes/203 million barrels.
@kemarisite 2 жыл бұрын
@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 that probably makes it a plurality (the largest single contributor by state) rather than a majority (50% +1).
@Patrick_3751 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Indy I'm confused about the oil production numbers you threw around. At 4:11 you said the oil fields in the Caucuses produced 25 million tons of crude oil in 1940, but at 5:20 you said the USSR produced 29,000 total tons of oil in 1940 and the numbers for the US and Venezuela were also thousands. Did you mean to say millions here?
@jrt818 2 жыл бұрын
The figuress he got the info from were probably in the thousands (000s) so multiply by a thousand. 29,000 is 29,000,000 tons, etc.
@lololomo5484 2 жыл бұрын
Indy goofed it. The numbers weren't clear. Indy and staff probably knew it. But they let the episode air as-is.
@johngates3844 Жыл бұрын
Your set and your presentation make viewing more enjoyable.
@WorldWarTwo Жыл бұрын
Thanks @John Gates!
@Duke_of_Lorraine 2 жыл бұрын
I just noticed the flags in the background have changed, with the addition of Brazil and Free France
@alextrickier4613 2 жыл бұрын
Correction for oil production statistics at 5:13 The numbers should be 182.7 _million_ metric tonnes of oil produced annually by the US, 29.7 _million_ tonnes annually by the USSR, and 27.4 _million_ tonnes annually by Venezuela. Romania as a whole produced about 5.7 million tonnes per year, with the Ploiesti oilfields alone producing about 4.5 million tonnes of that before the rapid decrease in production.
@davidhimmelsbach557 2 жыл бұрын
And the Americans owned the Venezuelan oil fields at that time. They developed them in the first place.
@campbellpaul 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent reporting of the facts!!! I am so glad I found your channel 👍👍
@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын
Welcome!
@gabem3593 2 жыл бұрын
Would love a special like this about rubber and the massive synthetic rubber projects, especially in the US and Germany. Much of the Auschwitz labor was to build a massive rubber plant, and us planners worried that unless they could start to create their own rubber (with japan having taken most of the world's rubber plantations before the war with the US), the war would be lost in months just due to how much rubber was being used.
@AtheistPirate 2 жыл бұрын
Speaking of the Italian navy...you should do a special episode on the frog men. They're a fascinating bunch with some Bond-worthy exploits.
@ThePRCommander 2 жыл бұрын
He should do a special episode of the navies involed in the war; every one of them. Same with the air forces.
@oreroundpvp896 2 жыл бұрын
Oil is by far the most significant reason for Axis defeat in WW2, but it is also the reason why they (especially Japan) went to war in the first place. Germany were after resources in the Soviet Union too but it was also an ideological war just as much as a resource war. It is amazing though how the Axis powers were able to fight so long whilst so starved of resources
@hiltibrant1976 2 жыл бұрын
It also highlights how futile the strive for autarky in terms of resources is for modern economies. North Korea or China would be other cases in point.
@perihelion7798 2 жыл бұрын
How much oil does Australia produce? Does it go to war to steal resources? Historically, democracies have negotiated for resources, instead of going to war over them.
@korbell1089 2 жыл бұрын
@@perihelion7798 We all know that emus are hoarding oil, that's the reason Australia went to war with them isn't? But I do agree with you. Japan is an economic powerhouse today, trading with other countries for the resources needed to fuel their economy. had they done that in the 1930's it would have solved so many problems and saved so many millions of lives, not to mention they would not have tainted their reputation so bad that even today they are reviled in some places.
@perihelion7798 2 жыл бұрын
@@korbell1089 I thought it was because they are pretty tasty, if kind of ugly.
@perihelion7798 2 жыл бұрын
@Robert Ortiz-Wilson Partly, but importantly true. However, Japan, in particular, needed the resources, and refused to negotiate for them. Both Germany and Japan had a national disease that made them feel superior to any other people on Earth, so they felt it was morally OK to just grab what they needed, instead of bargaining for it.
@michaelallen8276 2 жыл бұрын
Superb episode Indy
@rabihrac 2 жыл бұрын
How intense! I will have oily nightmares... Great episode WWTwo crew!
@-DC- 2 жыл бұрын
Superb content everytime 💪
@michaelmayo3127 2 жыл бұрын
Great documentary, Indy.
@magnus242 2 жыл бұрын
The majority of production of synthetic fuel was done with the Bergius process, invented by Friedrich Bergius. The Bergius process was good for producing gasoline while the Fischer-Tropsch process was good for making diesel.
@MagiciansApprentice1 2 жыл бұрын
Oil drove the British Empire, we were mechanized by 1940 - the Heer were still primarily horse-drawn.
@jonaszach3226 2 жыл бұрын
Well, Britain is one of the craddles of mobile warfare, both in theory and practice. It was much smaller army though and had access to rubber. Plus we have recently seen that Royal army still isn't really used to this style of warfare. They are learning though and I'm sure they can pull of another Compass in the future.
@kemarisite 2 жыл бұрын
@@jonaszach3226 technically, the UK hasn't had a "Royal Army" since the English Civil War and Cromwell's Protectorate in the mid 17th century.
@jonaszach3226 2 жыл бұрын
@@kemarisite You're right, that's a silly mistake to make.
@patricklemire9278 2 жыл бұрын
Even if they had oil, the Germans still lose. The Germans still needed a printer that would produce millions of trained pilots, infantry, etc. By 1945, they were out of men as well as oil.
@rosiehawtrey 2 жыл бұрын
They didn't have a lack of men to train, they had a lack of petrol to train pilots on, add to that the 109 tried to kill them on every landing... Then you need coal and high quality metals (for which you need coal and ore) and transport for which you need petrol or diesel and so on. Warm bodies were never that much of a problem - it was everything else that went with it...
@Raskolnikov70 2 жыл бұрын
That's why they (and Japan) had to strike and win quickly and made plans to do so. They knew their own weaknesses and knew they'd never win a war of attrition against the US + UK + USSR.
@Translucent73 2 жыл бұрын
They where out of everything really by that point. Modern wars since the industrial revolution are won by economics more and more.
@johnl1091 2 жыл бұрын
One of the major causes of increased casualties and manpower depletion was the immobilization of the armored divisions. Without armor to meet or blunt Soviet attacks, the infantry had to take it on the chin every single time. More oil would have meant more armor. More armor would have meant fewer casualties among the infantry. At least in theory.
@badbotchdown9845 2 жыл бұрын
Do you know the german casualties was 2.6 millions men before the 24th June of 44 Before the operation Bagration the soviet counter part of d day. Another 2.6 millions was killed until the end of war 9 months after.
@davidpeterjameson7937 2 жыл бұрын
Very well done! Looking forward to more specials that are factual and entertaining.
@bfesimm 2 жыл бұрын
Great sum up of the numbers and development of the oil situation. Another good source is Anand Toprani for this topic.
@Nederlanderssss 2 жыл бұрын
Everytime I see one of your great episodes, it makes me immediately play Hearts of Iron IV again! Great stuff!
@Uberdude6666 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks for your content. It's a good job the British were able to hold out in the Mediterranean wasn't it? Imagine if Germany and Italy were able to launch a joined naval/air-effort into the Caucasus from the Black sea or even the Middle East. I think it's amazing to think about how the Soviets simply packed up so much of their heavy industrial infrastructure and simply moved it further east. Have you done a video about how they actually did that?
@christiankent8964 2 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏👏 great episode. Highly insightful! You’re doing a world class job.
@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words!!
@FernandoHernandez-jw4yy 2 жыл бұрын
Damn, only the quality of the picture (including the vivid colours) give away that this series was filmed during WWII or right after. The set and the way the host dresses and presents is 100% on point.
@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын
There may or may not be some time travelling at play🤫 But in all seriousness, we're very happy to see that you like our content!
@gunman47 2 жыл бұрын
Is that the Brazilian flag I see behind Indy? A sense of foreshadowing to come soon in the coming days. HUE HUE HUE...
@luisfelipegoncalves4977 2 жыл бұрын
I can barely hold myself. It's mah country!
@thenewmilescopeland805 2 жыл бұрын
What happens in Brazil??
@wilhelmbrorrson1153 2 жыл бұрын
@@thenewmilescopeland805 Brazil just joined the war
@gorebello 2 жыл бұрын
@@thenewmilescopeland805 snakes smoked, and with surprisingly effectiveness
@edwardcamp3376 2 жыл бұрын
Is "hue hue hue" how Brazilians "ja ja ja?"
@mennoltvanalten7260 2 жыл бұрын
I feel like the visualisations in this episode could have used some standardisation. It felt like all the oil barrels had roughly the same number, but the amount each barrel represented varied. I feel like the visualization would have carried more weight if instead a barrel was eg. always 100,000 barrels of oil, but sometimes there was only 1 barrel and sometimes they were miniscule and filled the area. EDIT: At 7.45, this is aggrevated by having the legend appear last. Although okay for comparing the output of the given oilfield, it is terrible for comparing these fields with others mentioned in other moments
@uncleeric3317 2 жыл бұрын
Great episode!
@MDMoore6 2 жыл бұрын
Indy’s vest game is always on point.
@andmos1001 2 жыл бұрын
“Did anyone say OIL?” Someone in Germany, maybe
@kantenklaus9753 2 жыл бұрын
we have so few petroleum occurrences of our own; that there is not even a separate word for it.:D
@shanejones7906 2 жыл бұрын
The goal wasn't just to take the oil for Nazi Germany, it was also to deprive it to the Soviets. People can say what they want about Hitler but the guy knew that all wars are rooted in economics and that if Germany had any chance of winning it would have to gain access to a large oil deposit and get them producing oil as quickly as possible.
@markrobinson9956 2 жыл бұрын
I enjoy these special episodes. Logistics is too often ignored by other content creators.
@todiathink8864 2 жыл бұрын
EXCELLENT job!
@NiftyKnot 2 жыл бұрын
I remember reading that some German high officials had their personal vehicles converted into biomass gasifiers, to run of wood etc as petrol diminished. Are there any details about how widespread this was?
@ewok40k 2 жыл бұрын
pretty widespread, especially for civilians or occupied countries
@raclark2369 2 жыл бұрын
There's an episode of "Combat" that has a truck converted to burn wood. In the show it was a French civilian's, but the truck was authentic.
@badbotchdown9845 2 жыл бұрын
Frenchs have a lots of gazogènes during the occupation.
@bozo5632 2 жыл бұрын
Fuel was rationed pretty much globally. I've heard of wood gas being used in USA and Australia.
@billd.iniowa2263 2 жыл бұрын
@@raclark2369 Yup, love that show. Much of it is very authentic, except for the German AFVs. Oh, and the Marine helmet cover Vic Morrow uses, lol.
@seanpoltzer1107 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love how Indy delivers this episode. Love the underlying story of the German oul industry, not to mention the massive pincer movement w/ Rommel through Egypt and up, then from army group A through the Caucasus, leaving B to cover the flan. I've always wondered why not start Barbarossa with everything aimed south, and not go to Leningrad and Moscow.
@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 2 жыл бұрын
It’s not a bad idea. If they’d done that, Germany wouldn’t have had to fight on such a large front.
@Raskolnikov70 2 жыл бұрын
That might have worked. They had the strength to get to Baku in 1941 if they'd been willing to concentrate their armor in the south as well as use the Luftwaffe and their airborne troops to seize territory ahead of the panzer advance. It would have meant a much slower infantry advance in AG North and Center's sectors of the front, but we know from real life that even if they had reached Moscow in '41 there was no way the USSR was going to give up or collapse politically. Starving them out might have been Germany's best option.
@bingobongo1615 2 жыл бұрын
Because infrastructure is much better in the central and (west-) northern Sovietunion and almost all of the population and industrial centers are there
@ottavva 2 жыл бұрын
excellent presentation ... as ever
@allanhughes7859 2 жыл бұрын
Jesus this channel is so so good thank you so so much for what you do !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@oliversherman2414 5 ай бұрын
Germany's lack of resources basically doomed him from the start
@jdee8407 21 күн бұрын
That was also the reason they had to go to war. If they had the resources they wouldn't have gone to war.
@oliversherman2414 21 күн бұрын
@@jdee8407 Well Hitler's endgame was always conquering more land, especially the east, for Lebensraum
@thanos_6.0 2 жыл бұрын
I notice the brazilien flag in the background, I hope you will mention Brazils entry into the war
@FOLIPE 2 жыл бұрын
Same, maybe that's why the flag is there and they didn't change the setting for the special?
@morisco56 2 жыл бұрын
Come to brazil
@the1ghost764 2 жыл бұрын
Another Great Episode.
@richardsumner354 2 жыл бұрын
This was really good (as always)! Thanks!
@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@bishop6218 2 жыл бұрын
Holy shit they did put a Free French flag in the background ! Thanks you very much fellas, that means a lot 😊
@Dave_Sisson 2 жыл бұрын
They had to dump the New Zealand flag to fit it in, but it's a nice idea to rotate the flags of the minor allies.
@smokey3031 2 жыл бұрын
I miss the Konrad portrait :(
@thebunkerparodie6368 2 жыл бұрын
really enjoying these special on logistics and economy
@Crashed131963 2 жыл бұрын
You will love this short little read about how attrition works. www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm The war was decided the day it started. The US losing at Midway would not have helped Japan.
@diatribe5 Жыл бұрын
I love your retro attire and office setting.
@karlbrundage7472 2 жыл бұрын
As always, "Amateurs talk tactics. Experts talk logistics...."
@aboomination897 2 жыл бұрын
Experts talk both.
@Kyle-gw6qp 2 жыл бұрын
Both are reliant upon each other. Amazing logistics is meaningless when paired with really bad tactics.
@troystaunton254 2 жыл бұрын
*amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics. Experts talk both.
@ohhhSmooth 2 жыл бұрын
5:08; Are you sure it‘s just 183k tons a year, not like 183m tons?
@sparkieT88 2 жыл бұрын
British ton is about the same as the metric tonne , the American short ton is less
@ohhhSmooth 2 жыл бұрын
@@sparkieT88 but even if we take the north american ton, that's like a 500:1 difference.
@ohhhSmooth 2 жыл бұрын
according to wikipedia the US produced >280m tonnes of crude oil in 1950...
@leolinguini260 2 жыл бұрын
Great vid. A graph showing production, stores and consumption, next to eachother, would have been useful.
@tpoeatvon 2 жыл бұрын
Very good episode!
@izzywatashi371 2 жыл бұрын
This episode reminds me of the energy crisis in the 1970 and those long lines at the gas stations; could happen again.
@marcnassif2822 2 жыл бұрын
Happening right now in Lebanon😭
@eddiekulp1241 2 жыл бұрын
No we would roll tanks into mexico and canada to acquire the oil we need , never again can we allow oil to hold us hostage like in the 70's
@SolracNexus 2 жыл бұрын
"Oil is obviously important for germany's victory" - a hoi4 player
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