James Holland
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Where are you going to refine it?
They don't have many oil refineries.
How are you going to ship that oil to where you need it to be in the factories in the Third Reich and process it into gasoline and then get it and diesel and get it to your U-boats, get it to your tanks, get it to your armoured units? How are you going to do that? How do you transport it from the Caucasus, which is a long, long way away from Berlin, How are you going to do that?
How are you going to ship that oil to where you need it to be in the factories in the Third Reich and process it into gasoline and then get it and diesel and get it to your U-boats, get it to your tanks, get it to your armoured units? How are you going to do that? How do you transport it from the Caucasus, which is a long, long way away from Berlin, How are you going to do that?
How are you going to ship that oil to where you need it to be in the factories in the Third Reich and process it into gasoline and then get it and diesel and get it to your U-boats, get it to your tanks, get it to your armoured units? How are you going to do that? How do you transport it from the Caucasus, which is a long, long way away from Berlin, How are you going to do that?
How are you going to ship that oil to where you need it to be in the factories in the Third Reich and process it into gasoline and then get it and diesel and get it to your U-boats, get it to your tanks, get it to your armoured units?
How are you going to do that?
How do you transport it from the Caucasus, which is a long, long way away from Berlin,
How are you going to do that?
There's no pipelines. There's only some pipelines. They've been built by American money and American engineering, and they're going backwards towards the Urals, not forwards. They have no more rail capacity whatsoever. They just don't have the oil tankers. So it is absolute la-la land.
There's no pipelines. There's only some pipelines. They've been built by American money and American engineering, and they're going backwards towards the Urals, not forwards. They have no more rail capacity whatsoever. They just don't have the oil tankers. So it is absolute la-la land.
There's no pipelines. There's only some pipelines. They've been built by American money and American engineering, and they're going backwards towards the Urals, not forwards. They have no more rail capacity whatsoever. They just don't have the oil tankers. So it is absolute la-la land.
There's no pipelines.
There's only some pipelines.
They've been built by American money and American engineering, and they're going backwards towards the Urals, not forwards.
They have no more rail capacity whatsoever.
They just don't have the oil tankers.
So it's just... It is absolute la-la land.
It is incredible that when you look at the detailed literature that the Germans have, no one is asking this question in the spring and early summer of 1942. The logistics question in part. No one is saying... Okay, it's great that we're going to go to the Caucasus and get all this oil, but then what? No one is asking that question.
It is incredible that when you look at the detailed literature that the Germans have, no one is asking this question in the spring and early summer of 1942. The logistics question in part. No one is saying... Okay, it's great that we're going to go to the Caucasus and get all this oil, but then what? No one is asking that question.