By Robert Forczyk
A lot has been written of the giant clashes among the Wehrmacht and the pink military at Stalingrad, yet this quantity tells the opposite, both very important 1/2 the tale of Fall Blau (Case Blue). studying from their studies through the sweeping advances of Operation Barbarossa a 12 months sooner than, Wehrmacht commanders knew that Nazi Germany's loss of oil used to be a major strategic challenge. Seizure of the Caucasus oilfields, which have been answerable for eighty two% of the Soviet Union's crude oil, might at the same time alleviate the German army's oil shortages while denying very important gasoline assets to the purple military. whereas military team B complex alongside the Volga in the direction of Stalingrad, military staff A, spearheaded by means of Ewald von Kleist's elite Panzerarmee 1 was once to boost into the Caucasus to grab the oilfields of Maikop, Grozny and Baku. that includes full-color paintings, archival images and particular research, this booklet follows the vicious, extreme battling that characterised probably the most very important campaigns of worldwide struggle II.
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Extra resources for The Caucasus 1942-43: Kleist's Race for Oil
The flotilla chief Kharkov led a Soviet naval convoy sporting 2,500 reinforcements from the 137th Naval Infantry Regiment into the harbour yet discovered it most unlikely to land troops within the enemy-occupied docks. SOVIET THERMOPYLAE: THE PROLETARY CEMENT manufacturing unit, 8/9 SEPTEMBER 1942 (PP. 56–57) After the German seventy three. Infanterie-Division captured relevant Novorossiysk, Ruoff ordered Wetzel’s V Armeekorps to proceed the improvement alongside the coast highway to threaten Tuapse from the west. The Soviet forty seventh military were nearly demolished within the struggle for the town and the single major Soviet strength blocking off the coast highway used to be 3 battalions of naval soldiers, shaped from survivors of Gorshkov’s Azov Flotilla and the 83rd Naval Infantry Brigade. On 8/9 September, the German Infanterie-Regiment 213 all started the trouble to push alongside the coast street, supported by way of attack weapons and heavy artillery. The sixteenth Naval Infantry Battalion had occupied a robust place within the Proletary Cement manufacturing facility, at the outskirts of town, whereas the opposite battalions have been within the close by Krasny Oktyabr manufacturing facility. Like Thermopylae in historic Greece, the terrain used to be slender the following as a result water of Tsemes Bay and the close by mountains, which diminished the German numerical virtue. At sunrise on eight September, the German Landser from Infanterie-Regiment 213 got here on on the element of the bayonet, yet encountered all of sudden robust resistance on the Cement manufacturing facility. German squaddies fought their method into the decrease flooring and engaged in hand-to-hand strive against, whereas Soviet sailors fired down upon them from higher flooring. After an afternoon of severe battling, the Soviet battalion used to be approximately surrounded, however the survivors have been in a position to slip out to proceed the struggle on the Oktyabr manufacturing unit. regardless of repeated assaults, the German V Armeekorps couldn't in achieving a step forward alongside the coast street and the high priced Soviet defence finally proved winning. This scene indicates the facet of the manufacturing facility (1)and the oncoming German infantry (2). numerous of the Germans have already turn into casualties (3), yet the various Germans have reached the decrease ground (4)and are engaged in vicious hand-to-hand wrestle with the Soviet naval squaddies (5). German pioneers and Romanian mountain infantry crossing a water difficulty in a wide rubber raft, most likely east of Novorossiysk, September 1942. Axis cooperation within the Caucasus crusade was once just a little greater than in different sectors of the japanese entrance. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2004-0186; photograph via Steiniger) even if extra days of mopping-up have been required to safe the town, Novorossiysk had fallen. The German V Armeekorps claimed to have captured 6,500 prisoners within the urban, yet had suffered over 4,000 casualties in weeks of pricy combating. as soon as crucial Novorossiysk used to be occupied, Stavka relieved Kotov of command and transferred Grechko to take over the forty seventh military on eight September. little or no used to be left of the latter, yet battalions of Soviet naval soldiers and a few military survivors had demonstrated a robust blocking off place on the Proletary Cement manufacturing facility and Oktyabr manufacturing facility on the south-east outskirts of Novorossiysk.