The operation was a continuation of the previous year's Operation Barbarossa intended to finally knock the Soviet Union out of the war, and involved a two-pronged attack against the rich oilfields of Baku as well as an advance in the direction of Stalingrad along the Volga River, to cover the flanks of the advance towards Baku. For this part of the operation, Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) of the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) was divided into Army Groups A and B (Heeresgruppe A and B). Army Group A was tasked with crossing the Caucasus mountains to reach the Baku oil fields, while Army Group B protected its flanks along the Volga.
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| - The operation was a continuation of the previous year's Operation Barbarossa intended to finally knock the Soviet Union out of the war, and involved a two-pronged attack against the rich oilfields of Baku as well as an advance in the direction of Stalingrad along the Volga River, to cover the flanks of the advance towards Baku. For this part of the operation, Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) of the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) was divided into Army Groups A and B (Heeresgruppe A and B). Army Group A was tasked with crossing the Caucasus mountains to reach the Baku oil fields, while Army Group B protected its flanks along the Volga.
- A continuation of the previous year's Operation: Barbarossa and intended to finally knock the Soviet Union out of the war, the operation involved a two-pronged attack against the rich oilfields of Baku as well as an advance in the direction of Stalingrad along the Volga River, to cover the flanks of the advance toward Baku.
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- 1900(xsd:integer)
- 3720(xsd:integer)
- 300000(xsd:integer)
- 1000000(xsd:integer)
- 1300000(xsd:integer)
- 1700000(xsd:integer)
- 2700000(xsd:integer)
- ~ 1,671 aircraft
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| Commander
| - Adolf Hitler
- W. von Richthofen
- Wilhelm List
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky
- Erich von Manstein
- Fedor von Bock
- Alexander Löhr
- Georgy Zhukov
- Rodion Malinovsky
- Filipp Golikov
- K. Rokossovsky
- Semyon Timoshenko
- Ivan Tyulenev
- Andrey Yeryomenko
- Dmitri Kozlov
- M. von Weichs
- Paul von Kleist
- Semyon M. Budenny
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| - German troops take cover behind a knocked out T-70 light tank, summer 1942
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| Casualties
| - 1013000(xsd:integer)
- 1111681(xsd:integer)
- 1114735(xsd:integer)
- 2226416(xsd:integer)
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| Result
| - Strategic Axis Failure
- Strategic Axis failure
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| - 15(xsd:integer)
- 23(xsd:integer)
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| Place
| - Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don to Stalingrad, Kuban, Caucasus, Southern Russia, Soviet Union
- Voronezh, Rostov to Stalingrad, Kuban, Caucasus, Southern Russia, Soviet Union
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| Conflict
| - Case Blue
- Case Blue — German summer offensive of 1942
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| - The operation was a continuation of the previous year's Operation Barbarossa intended to finally knock the Soviet Union out of the war, and involved a two-pronged attack against the rich oilfields of Baku as well as an advance in the direction of Stalingrad along the Volga River, to cover the flanks of the advance towards Baku. For this part of the operation, Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) of the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) was divided into Army Groups A and B (Heeresgruppe A and B). Army Group A was tasked with crossing the Caucasus mountains to reach the Baku oil fields, while Army Group B protected its flanks along the Volga. Initially, the German offensive saw spectacular gains with a rapid advance into the Caucasus capturing vast areas of land and several oil fields. However, the Red Army decisively defeated the Germans at Stalingrad, following Operations Uranus and Little Saturn. This defeat forced the Axis to retreat from the Caucasus in fear of becoming trapped. Only the city of Kursk and the Kuban region remained tentatively occupied by Axis troops.
- A continuation of the previous year's Operation: Barbarossa and intended to finally knock the Soviet Union out of the war, the operation involved a two-pronged attack against the rich oilfields of Baku as well as an advance in the direction of Stalingrad along the Volga River, to cover the flanks of the advance toward Baku. Initially, the German offensive saw spectacular gains with a rapid advance into the Caucasus capturing vast areas of land and several oil fields. However, the Red Army decisively defeated the Germans at Stalingrad, following Operations Uranus and Little Saturn. This defeat forced the Axis to retreat from the Caucasus in fear of becoming trapped. Only the city of Kursk and the Kuban region remained tentatively occupied by Axis troops.
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