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The America where we pretend wars aren't about oil never left.
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
The America where we pretend wars aren't about oil never left.
- CamperBob2 5y agoThis part of the war was definitely about oil, and the guidebook makes no bones about it. Hitler found the Caucasian oil fields substantially less accessible than he'd hoped. In fact, it was already a lost cause by the time this book was written, which meant the Middle East was far more important to the Germans than it otherwise would have been. The whole idea was to deny those resources to the enemy and safeguard them for Allied use.