In 1942, undertakings akin to a Greek tragedy ensued within the confines of the East European Theatre of the Second Great War. Moreover, what one comprehends when uttering Stalingrad is not merely a fabled epic of an all-encompassing crusade, but rather the indomitable will of two historic despots, unwavering against the supervening chaos. In verity, that is in actuality an inadequate parable that simply breeds further delusion of the genuine basis behind the assault on Stalingrad. In contemporary times, it is heralded as fact when one avows that Hitler’s purpose for the aforementioned incursion was because it was named after Joseph Stalin. Granted that the Führer’s arrogance (or perchance ignorance) did reverberate throughout Operation Barbarossa,
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Furthermore, his own aggressive (criminal) foreign policy was the meticulous instigator for the reason he was coerced into extemporising Operation Barbarossa, and invading Stalingrad. Germany’s exponentially mounting catalogue of enemies were diminishing the strength of its army, as the Wehrmacht were inept in separating the Allied forces. In addition, Hitler witnessed how ephemerally his Reich’s socio-political war had consumed its fuel. Accordingly, he set the German forces toward the south of Stalingrad so that Germany may be able to procure novel sources of oil, so they may perchance be capable of conducting a drawn-out war.4 Thus, Case Blue was Hitler’s solution to the increasing epidemic his country faced. The Caucasus were an oil metropolis for Russia, containing ninety percent of their oil production. Therefore, if Germany could promptly seize them, they could conceivably eliminate Russia from the very equation, while also reinvigorating their resources. Since by 1942, The Second Great War had become a war of economic attrition, Hitler assembled the German High Command, and together they realised that without these essential resources, the war is lost, and hence Case Blue was
Furthermore, his own aggressive (criminal) foreign policy was the meticulous instigator for the reason he was coerced into extemporising Operation Barbarossa, and invading Stalingrad. Germany’s exponentially mounting catalogue of enemies were diminishing the strength of its army, as the Wehrmacht were inept in separating the Allied forces. In addition, Hitler witnessed how ephemerally his Reich’s socio-political war had consumed its fuel. Accordingly, he set the German forces toward the south of Stalingrad so that Germany may be able to procure novel sources of oil, so they may perchance be capable of conducting a drawn-out war.4 Thus, Case Blue was Hitler’s solution to the increasing epidemic his country faced. The Caucasus were an oil metropolis for Russia, containing ninety percent of their oil production. Therefore, if Germany could promptly seize them, they could conceivably eliminate Russia from the very equation, while also reinvigorating their resources. Since by 1942, The Second Great War had become a war of economic attrition, Hitler assembled the German High Command, and together they realised that without these essential resources, the war is lost, and hence Case Blue was