How Germany Completely Mismanaged Their Waning Petrol Reserves in WWII

If they had been just a little savvier they might have been able to prolong the war effort

The invasion of the Soviet Union was not supposed to be taking as long as it had. By 1943, the war had ground to a bloody halt on the Eastern Front. German dreams of sweeping into the USSR and capitulating the communist nation in a matter of months had long evaporated. As the war effort churned, the distances grew longer, resupply grew harder, and Germany was starting to have a big problem that it could no longer ignore. They were running out of gas. Literally.

Oil and petrol were two of the most important resources during World War II. The Japanese had fuel issues in Asia and now the Germans were having fuel issues in Europe. It turns out driving hundreds of heavy tanks across thousands of miles of foreign terrain used a lot of gas. Germany had planned on already being in possession of the Soviet Union’s vast gas reserves and the oil fields surrounding Baku after successful operations but neither had materialized. Instead, the German army was pinned down at places such as Stalingrad, Kursk and Leningrad , without an ability to successful refuel and resupply. In order to keep the war going, they had to turn to their own reserves far earlier than expected.

Instead of being shrewd with their fuel supplies, Germany mismanaged their reserves. Successfully preserving petrol at these key points in the war could have helped them prolong their war efforts. They could have put in place fuel rations and redistributed oil to more central locations but they didn’t. In fact, many of the decisions the Germans made in 1943 and 1944 consumed vast amounts of fuel and ended in complete and useless waste of the precious resource.

Case Blue was the German code name for their push into the Caucasus Mountains. The war planners devised a plan to split off a sizeable force and send it to secure the rich oil fields of the mountainous terrain and the city of Baku. Securing the…

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