By Robert Forczyk
A lot has been written of the great clashes among the Wehrmacht and the purple military at Stalingrad, yet this quantity tells the opposite, both vital 1/2 the tale of Fall Blau (Case Blue). studying from their reviews through the sweeping advances of Operation Barbarossa a yr earlier than, Wehrmacht commanders knew that Nazi Germany's loss of oil was once an incredible strategic challenge. Seizure of the Caucasus oilfields, that have been answerable for eighty two% of the Soviet Union's crude oil, could concurrently alleviate the German army's oil shortages when denying important gas assets to the purple military. whereas military workforce B complicated alongside the Volga in the direction of Stalingrad, military team A, spearheaded by means of Ewald von Kleist's elite Panzerarmee 1 was once to enhance into the Caucasus to grab the oilfields of Maikop, Grozny and Baku. that includes full-color art, archival pictures and specific research, this publication follows the vicious, severe struggling with that characterised essentially the most vital campaigns of global battle II.
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83 They are above all hotbeds of blood-mixing and bastardization, usually ensuring the degeneration of the race and resulting in that purulent herd in which the maggots of the international Jewish community flourish and cause the ultimate decay of the people. But it is precisely in this way that a decline is introduced, because now the inner strength of such a people disappears quickly, and all racial, moral, and ethical qualities are destroyed; ideals are lost, thus eliminating in the end the prerequisite needed in order for a people to take on the final consequences in the struggle for the world market.
27 [Chapter III] [Race, Conflict, and Power] I [want] would like immediately at this point take issue with the bourgeois view that the concept of power usually means only a nation’s supply of weapons, and to a limited degree perhaps also the army as an organization. If the view of these people were correct—if a people’s power really does lie in its store of weapons and its army— then a people that lost its army and weapons, through whatever circumstances, would be finished forever. But these bourgeois politicians hardly believe that themselves.
Domestic] Foreign policy is the art of securing for a people the necessary quantity and quality of Lebensraum. Domestic policy is the art of preserving the [strength content] commitment of strength—in terms of the people’s racial quality and numbers—necessary to do this. 27 [Chapter III] [Race, Conflict, and Power] I [want] would like immediately at this point take issue with the bourgeois view that the concept of power usually means only a nation’s supply of weapons, and to a limited degree perhaps also the army as an organization.