Why didn't Hitler go through Turkey to get the Caucasus Oil?
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2020
- One popular idea people have is that Hitler and Germany should have invaded Turkey (or maybe get her on her side, which wasn't an option because Turkey wasn't interested) to get to the Caucasus oil fields in the southern Soviet Union. This would theoretically solve the oil crisis that Germany was suffering under. However, there are a few problems with this theory, as this video will explain.
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One correction: there were no bridges across the Bosphorus in 1940. The first bridge was finished in 1973. Otherwise nice video :)
Hitler taking notes in hell from a 12 year old hoi4 player writing an essay about how Hitler couldve won the war
What a stupid idea, to run your tanks trough mountains and hills of Balkan and Turkey, instead of flat plains of Ukraine and Russia.
One thing that seems to have been overlooked is that while Turkey was a Neutral country during WWII, it did have a favourable disposition towards Germany from prior to WWI and this continued into WWII. There was and still is the train line that The Orient Express to Istanbul/Constantinople ran on, so some communications were better than the USSR.
Lol, did he even play HOI? Try invading through low infra mountains and across a sea gap?
I ve travelled a lot through Turkey..... i can’t even imagine how bad communications were back then.... unreal!
The problem was lack of Ball Bearings. Hogan and his Hero's kept blowing up the Ball bearing factories.
They didn't realise Libya was a massive oil field.
yes germany desperately needed just one more enemy in order to win 😂😂😂
There were no bridges connecting europe to anatolia like you said. Only in the 70s was the first bridge built. There were only ferrys moving from anatolia tot europe on the bosphorus
Insightful video. German army would have a difficult time in Turkey, a mountainous country without good infrastructure, with British support. Just to mention that there were no bridges across Bosporus. The first Bosporus bridge was built in 1973.
Around 20 years ago I was involved in some of the planning for the invasion of Iraq. We (Brits) were going to go into the N, through Kurdistan and head S, via Turkey. In the event the Turks wouldn't allow us to do this, but we did a lot of planning. The Main Supply Routes, Ports and roads in general would have been a nightmare then, let alone with the roads of 1941. There isn't a lot of flat ground in Turkey, and if the locals had been anti, as they might have been in 1941, well, good luck.
It is a shame that paradox makes Chromium so irrelevant in their game.
His voice inflection really adds to the presentation, there are too many presenters on YT who just sound like newscasters/newsreaders.
The terrain alone makes moving a significant mechanised force through Turkey impossible, even with Turkish cooperation. Invading makes no sense.
It’s the a very compelling narrative TIK. It explains the logic behind many of the strategic decisions made by the OKW/OKH and Hitler especially. Every operation was planned with the amount of oil available being the main consideration, well done for bringing the “oil narrative” to everyone’s attention. I’ve been interested in military history for 30 years now and this is the most credible theory I’ve heard in that time.
He was Hungary so he wanted to go to Turkey but he slipped in Greece.
TIK, I think I know what that video is, it's a video from The Alternative Hypothesis, he has since deleted all of his videos on youtube. His argument was not to conquer Turkey, but instead to ally with them by giving them pieces of Greece, and promising them Syria, Jordan, etc. after the war. I haven't yet watched your video, I think I've heard the problem with this idea being that the Turkish railways would not have been sufficient to supply a significant attacking force through the difficult terrain in the Caucasus. He also argued for bringing Spain into the Axis by promising them Morocco and thereby also removing Gibraltar from the British. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
That was great. You’re so right, the entrance to the station is sooo under rated....it sure needs a refresh in 2021
I am reading about and listening to lectures and podcasts about the wars between The Roman/Byzantine Empire and the Arabian Kaliphat. Yes, invading through Turkey/Asia Minor is possible if you have great numerical advantage, but basically the area is damn easy to defend.