German Panzers Were 5 Miles From Caucasus Oil. Red Army Trapped 13th Panzer, 80 Tanks Lost, 1942

#ww2history #wwii #militaryhistory German Panzers Were 5 Miles From Caucasus Oil. Red Army Trapped 13th Panzer, 80 Tanks Lost, 1942 Five miles. That was the gap between a German tank division and the road that led to Hitler's oil. On the second of November, nineteen forty-two, the thirteenth Panzer Division rolled into a village called Gizel, on the western edge of a city named Ordzhonikidze, which sits on the map today as Vladikavkaz. In this video: Why Hitler bet the war on Caucasus oil: Baku's wells, the fuel Germany did not have, and Operation Edelweiss signed in July 1942. The 379-mile drive into the mountains and the moment the 13th Panzer rolled into Gizel, five miles from Ordzhonikidze and the road to Baku. How the Red Army turned after four months of retreat: minefields, antitank belts, and a counterstroke sprung at the neck of the German salient on 6 November. The breakout that cost the spearhead its tanks: the disputed 80-tank figure, the SS Wiking rescue, and what losing them meant for a panzer division. Stalingrad, the January 1943 withdrawal through Rostov, and why the German drive for oil never pointed south again. Quick Facts on 13th Panzer at the Caucasus oil gate are pinned in the top comment. Subscribe for more untold history, and tell us what to cover next below. #WW2 #EasternFront #BattleoftheCaucasus #PanzerDivision #RedArmy #MilitaryHistory