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Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku

Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku

★ 5.8/10•2015•52m•Documentary•War•History

How the fight to control strategic oil reserves shaped WWII

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 the city off the map.

Robert Mugnerot · Writer

Robert Mugnerot · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime52m
LanguageFR
Release DateMay 4, 2015

Actors

Féodor Atkine

Féodor Atkine

Narrator (voice)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

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