re: #416 Targetpractice

They’d at least acknowledged that much and started working on synthetic fuel plants, as well as the (botched) effort to secure the oil reserves in Caucuses. But even then, every gallon that Hitler was making sure was not being taken away from the civilian population was a gallon that wasn’t going into a tank or a fighter.

An interesting question of alternative history is, if Operation Barbarossa had focused on the oil fields, giving Army Groups North and Center just enough strength to protect Army Group South’s flank and keep a large portion of the Red Army tied down around Moscow, could it have succeeded?