Hitler Lost in Stalingrad because He Did Not Have Baku Oil

Baku / 03.02.18 / Turan: Presentation of a new book by Nazim Rza Israfiloglu "Oil and War. Clash of the Titans" was held. The book is devoted to the historical study of not yet opened pages of the war of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union and the significance of Baku oil in the plans of superpowers of that time.

The scientific editor of the new book, historian Elmira Muradaliyeva, believes that the military operations for Stalingrad and the Caucasus were inextricably linked. "At least twice the USSR was on the verge of disaster - in 1941 and 1942, when the Germans launched a summer campaign and reached the North Caucasus (Grozny) with catastrophic speed. Baku was in fact "in their pocket." The confidence was so strong that a film about the capture of Baku was already being shot in Germany. The scenery of Baku was built according to old postcards and photographs taken in Baku. The main role was to be performed by Willy Fritz, whose prototype was Otto Skorzeni (who, as is known, liberated the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini).

The German army was to enter Baku. But being self-confident, like all dictators, Hitler decided that Baku was already in his hands, so he could divide the huge, well-equipped armada into two parts and send one of them to Stalingrad.

Why to Stalingrad? Being a dictator, Hitler believed that, by capturing the city named after another dictator, he would deal a moral blow to the head of the Soviets.

On February 2, 1943, this huge army was surrounded and surrendered with its generals. Why? After all, the German army was much better prepared than the Soviet one. The Hitlerite army was immobilized - it did not have fuel, since Baku was in Stalin's hands. German soldiers died not from bullets and shells, but from the cold. Russian cold froze even the German chocolate.

This page of world history shows that Hitler lost in Stalingrad because he did not have Baku oil, E. Muradaliyeva summed up. -0-