Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku Poster

Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku 2015

β˜… 7.22 votes52 minπŸ“… 2015-05-04

"How the fight to control strategic oil reserves shaped WWII"

Overview

This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow. The very rich oil deposits of the region aroused the covetousness of Hitler who needed the oil from Baku to carry out his program of world domination. His entire campaign of 1942-1943 was aimed at seizing them. But the Soviets and the Allies were determined to prevent him from doing so, by all means, including the most radical, even if it meant wiping

Director: Robert Mugnerot

Cast

FΓ©odor Atkine
FΓ©odor Atkine
Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)

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