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I.G. Farben

synthetic

fuel

?

hey guys 8====D

Why did Hitler

want the oil?

=

Autarchy and Catastrophe

Chemical and Oil Combine

Friedrich Bergius and hydrogenation

I.G. Farben joins Standard Oil of New Jersey

1929, second deal

Dependence on Foreign Oil

The 4 Year Plan

- Main goal: Increase production x6

- 1940 synthetic fuel = 46%

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X

so

Treaty

of

Versailles

used 95% synthetic fuel

Pierre Laval

Mussolini

Ethiopia

blitzkrieg =

February 1936

>:(

Bolsheviks

X

Hitler and

Oil

Ploesti Fields--Hitler's main source of crude oil

Germany's Formula

Baku Oil Fields

Hitler's Reason's for War With

Soviet Union

vs.

- Hatred of Bolshevism

- Personal enmity for Stalin

-Contempt for the Slavs

- Dominate the Eurasian land mass

-Lebensraum "living space"

- Secret deal (Britain/ Soviet Union)

-OIL (Baku and Caucasion oil fields)

German colonel: Joachim Peiper

responsible for

Malmedy Massacre

December 17, 1944

OIL

"The Primary Strategic Aim"

Oil

American General Spaatz

Oil

"Twilight of the Gods"

End of the Reich

April 30, 1945

No leader

No fuel

No more Nazi Germany

Rommel: Master of

Albert Speer

Mobile Warfare

First Nazi Architect

Later became Minister of Armaments and War Production

Controlled or influenced virtually all economic life in Germany

-First Battle of El Alamein (Britain vs. Rommel)

-Battle of Alam Halfa (Rommel vs. Montgomery)

-Second Battle of El Alamein

(Montgomery vs. Stumme)

Oil

The Product

For War

Operation Blau

Battle of the Bulge

- 1942, operation to get oil

-attack, then retreat from Caucasus Jan. 1943

-Stalingrad, first major German loss

Operation Barbarossa

Stavelot: "Europe's Biggest Gas Station"

Ardennes Forest East of Belgium and Luxembourg

-issued Dec. 1940, invasion on the Soviet Union

-June 22, 1941 Germany attacked

-"we'll kick the door in and the house will fall"-Hitler

oil

War and Oil

Works Cited

The one and only, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin

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