Azerbaijan in World War II. Objective Baku - Hitler Battle for Oil. National Geographic. Azerbaijan
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Azerbaijan in World War II. Objective Baku - Hitler Battle for Oil. National Geographic. Azerbaijan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYx1lVBldw Azerbaijan, Baku, Hitler, Staling, Soviet Union, Battle of Stalingrad, Caspian Sea, Azeri People, Azerbaijani People. Objective Baku - How Hitler Lost the Battle for Oil. National Geographic Documentary Commemorating to the Victory over Nazism during World War Two and pays tribute to Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani people contributed to The Great Victory. The plot of the documentary reveals the role of the Azerbaijani people in defeating Nazism and the strategic importance of the Azerbaijani oil during the war. In the course of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), 700 thousand men were drafted in Azerbaijan, 400 thousand out of them never made it back home. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan’s input to the war efforts was not only restricted to human resources. 128 residents of Azerbaijan were conferred on title of Hero of the Soviet Union for military valour and feats shown during World War II. Hazi Aslanov received this title twice. There were 42 ethnic Azerbaijanis who received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and 14 of them were awarded posthumously. Lieutenant Israfil Mammadov was the first Azerbaijani who became Hero of the Soviet Union. The role of the Azerbaijani oil in the Victory shall not be overseen. E.g. 72 per cent of the Soviet crude was produced in Baku. This implies that 7 out of 10 tanks or war planes were fuelled by Baku’s ‘black gold’. Objective Baku took 14 months of substantial reseach in Azerbaijan, Germany, the US, the UK, France and Russia, with over 200 hours of videomaterials, photographs and other documents scrutinized. The film provides a totally new approach to the history of World War II, i.e. through the prism of oil. The documentary also features some unique video snapshots of the WW2 battles never shown to this day in a totally new format of restored color film. The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic entered World War II with the whole Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. German command gave the great consideration to oil pools of Baku and set a task to take Baku and oil and gas area of Baku under their control in the course of the Battle of the Caucasus. Baku and the North Caucasus were the main oil sources for the whole economy of the USSR. Reserves of strategic raw materials such as deposit of tungsten-molybdenum ore were in these places. Loss of the Caucasus could cause a significant influence upon general course of the war against the USSR, and that is why Hitler had chosen namely this direction as the main Group of armies, created for attack to the Caucasus, was given coded identification “A”. Tasks of the group “A” were the following: to surround and destroy the Southern Front in the southern and south-western parts of Rostov-on-Don, which drew off over the Don River, and to capture the North Caucasus; then it was intended to pass round Greater Caucasus with a group from the South, capturing Novorossiysk and Tuapse and with the other group from the East, capturing oil regions of Grozny and Baku. Simultaneously, it was intended to overcome the Dividing Ridge in its central part over its passes and entrance to Georgia, with a bypass manoeuvre. German army approached the South Caucasus. Even the date of seizure of Baku – September 26, 1942 - was fixed. Defense regions were created around Nalchik, Vladikavkaz, Grozny, Makhachkala and Baku. The first stage of the battle of the Caucasus was from July to December, 1942. German-Romanian army, suffering a great loss, could reach foothills of Greater Caucasus and the Terek River. But, generally, “edelweiss” plan of Germany failed. Only during the 1st stage of the battle the “A” group of armies lost about 100,000 people and Germans couldn’t burst the South Caucasus and the Near East. From August 25 to September 17, 1941 the Great Britain and the Soviet Union carried out a joint campaign under a code name “Consent”. Defense of Iranian oil deposits and pools and their capture by German army and their allies, and also defense of transportation corridor (southern corridor), along which allies supplied the Soviet Union according to Lend-Lease, was its main goal. During World War II, Rezā Shāh refused to deploy troops of the Great Britain and the Soviet Union at their request. But, for instance, according to the 5th and 6th points of the agreement between Soviet Russia and Iran of 1921, the USSR had a right to deploy its troops in the territory of Iran in case of appearance of any threat to its southern borders. Armed forces of the allies invaded Iran, dethroned Reza Pahlavi and established their control over railway roads and oil deposits of the country, in course of the campaign. Meanwhile, troops of the United Kingdom occupied southern Iran, and troops of the Soviet Union – northern part of the country (Iranian Azerbaijan).
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anyone who bleats..."oil....the u.s. just wants oil" ignores this....(and the fact that america has its own oil).
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America - willing to risk it all on a pipeline from Qatar to Turkey.
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Just a quick note on the Azerbaijan flagpole that was shown at the end of the documentary. It used to be the world's tallest flag pole 162 meters tall until Tajikistan (my country) beat the record raising it to 165 meters :) Ilhom Aliev the president of Azerbaijan was so annoyed by it that he skipped a meeting in Tajikistan. Then Jeddah in Saudi Arabia bypassed Tajikistan by raising its flag to 170 meters which is the tallest of all now. And they are all built by the same American company! Living abroad I haven't seen the flagpole of my country Tajikistan yet. Hoping one day to take a selfie in front of it. This documentary was a kick ass! Thanks National Geographic
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Wow, awsome commitment, bravery and effort. Respect for Baku people. The war decided here.
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fun fact: all the sounds in the video are not original.
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Ass 3:40 reminds me of the James Bond movie where a woman got covered in gold, but in this it's black gold
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lol now there is a German version... at around 19:50 ... so stupid... Why did they burn the Diesel?! There was no threat that they get pushed back since - as they say - the reserves were more in west, close to the border (means in former Eastern Poland and the Baltic States occupied 1940), they could have transported 100,000 tons at least to Poland, and create a truck, or was Germany's Industry completely working without Diesel?! I hardly can believe that pre-war all the hundreds busses in Berlin alone, were driving with gasoline only?!
Together with other cities around the "Reich" before war started it had been far over 1,000 busses, even though they introduced the "O-Bus" (Oberleitungs-Bus), like at TRAM the technology, just without needed railways, Busses driving with electricity which they get from above power lines, so the streets do not need to be destroyed, since private cars can use the same road without problems, but the Busses worked with Electric-Propulsion of course created by coal... from that Germany had a lot... only transportation was hard since they had to use usual locomotives, while the USA did send thousands of Diesel-Electric Locomotive, of which Soviet Union only produced 92, yes ninety-two from 1942, 1943, 1944 and until May 1945... US at least delivered over 3,000 diesel-electric waggons and ten thousands, if not over 50,000 of railway wagons which had no propulsion, for these the over 3,000 waggons were used to pull the wagons, depends on goods and weight it could be 8 or even 10 waggons over distances of many thousand kilometers, before the Soviets would have needed to create all over the new "roads" (paths more for vehicles, but rails to the new industrial cities to which the factories which were not captured/destroyed in the first 3-4 months, it was now a long way, thats why Stalin did let advance Germans advancing, as he knew from his military headquarter (STAWKA?) Generals that the German troops will use much of fuel in this advance, and they only have a limited number, exact details were not available to soviets, but they knew its not enough for 1 year full-scale war, Romania was now by far the largest source of oil, Vienna Basin in Austria or Galizia in Poland (or today Lithuania?!) small oil fields were available, but they delivered only a little bit, so Hydrierwerke provided most from 1942 and later, I do not want to know in which world we would now life, if we would at all, if Albert Speer would already become chief for production of all war-important goods, he was a Genius in Logistics, Ingenieur, he even wrote that he thinks the wooden concentration camps (I think he visited a German one, in which the quality was a bit better since they were no death camps but more war camps and also had a high number of politicals (communists, social democratic etc), than gay or other sexual "abnormal" things, including relationship or sex with a jewish person as German,
Lucky that the US made the Soviet Army so mobile really! Otherwise how to transport goods from Novosibirsk, Perm, Ufa, Tscheljabinsk, Jekaterinburg, Perm and Ufa were closer to the front, but also were directly west of the large cities of Tscheljabinsk and Jekaterinburg, they were like a "shield" for these cities, Nischni Nowgorod was used in the beginning, but many things were moved since it stayed for yyears in bomber-range of the Luftwaffe, Omsk was far away. In Today Kazakhstan there are some cities too, but not really good ones in the small European-Part, and these in the Middle, Northeast, Southwest etc were not real option because of the missing infrastructure (laying a 2-way railway for a distance of like ~1,500 kilometer for 1 single city is not really good, since that was one thing US/Allies I think never delivered to the Soviets: steel, since Stalins 5-year plans included to introduce a bit better agricultural techniques, including tractors of soviet origin which would be needed to build in the close future, but already before this he told to maximize the Steel production, since of course during the peace time you could sell Steel to countries which had almost no coal or no Iron Ore and/or the right factories to produce different types of steel... Soviets had the Ukranian Donezk Basin, extreme large coal reserves there, Iron Ore, Nickel, Copper.... they had this and still Russia has today in its over almost 17.1 million km² area...
But well, stupid to burn 100,000 tons, today it is no big deal, only a few minutes of world crude oil production the 100,000 tons of crude oil would be... in Diesel it is a bit more since density of Diesel is around ~0,800kg/Liter I think - like Kerosene... -
Great documentary, this oiled orientes focus leas to very interesting trends of understanding the ww2
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20,000 tanks and 15,000 planes, that's proof that Stalin wanted to invade Europe, but Hitler knew it and attacked first.
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They conviently forgot to mention the 9 million barrels of high grade aviation fuel with a special additive to prevent engine knock in the me 109 that John rockfellars standard oil held the patent too at the time ohh and let's not forget the loan of that large cash sum to mr. Adolf from the new York central bank who's chairman at the time was grand dad Prescott Busch . Now that's what I call war profiteering and cronie capitalism wonder why they weren,t hung or shot at nuremberg trials . Ohhh that's right they had MONEY .
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This is retarded. Hitler did NOT want world domination, if he did he would have wanted Germanys colonies back, he also would not have proposed peace to France and Britain soon after the fall of Paris.
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3:40 Thtat ass tho..
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The red army got most of their supplies from Azerbijan as it was then a part of Soviet Union
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Armenians and Azers in the comment section should grow up. Without each other .They're probably both speaking German by now
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damn the russians have sacrificed too much.
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плaше смрќу "нa земљи'
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Most documentaries on case blue completely ignore the caucus campaigns in preference to the Stalingrad meat grinder. It was really interesting to see what was happening in the south.
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I love you Azerbaijan❤
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10:54 is that a shark??
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