The Germans and the Baku oil fields

why didn't the Germans make taking the Baku oil fields their priority?

 

They certainly tried but there was a little matter of the Red Army

 

See Operation Edelweiss for the German attempt on the Baku oil fields.

Tim

 

ok will do, thanks

 

In 1939 the senior Abwehr agent in Turkey carried out a secret survey of the route through Persia to Baku with the possibility in mind of a pre-emptive strike to seize the fields from the Soviet Union to prevent the French army in Syria doing so.

 

thanks

 

This article is worth a read too.

Too Little, Too Late: An Analysis of Hitler's Failure in August 1942 to Damage Soviet Oil Production

https://www.joelhayward.org/Too-Little-Too-Late.2.pdf

 

thanks