Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
“How the fight to control strategic oil reserves shaped WWII”
2015•52m•5.8•Released
DocumentaryWarHistory
This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow. The very rich oil deposits of the region aroused the covetousness of Hitler who needed the oil from Baku to carry out his program of world domination. His entire campaign of 1942-1943 was aimed at seizing them. But the Soviets and the Allies were determined to prevent him from doing so, by all means, including the most radical, even if it meant wiping the city off the map.
Director
Robert Mugnerot
Writer
Robert Mugnerot
Languages
English, French
Studio
Baku Media Center
Cast
Féodor Atkine
Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
Baku Media Center
Company
CC&C
Producer
Louis Vaudeville
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