Where did the Wehrmacht get the oil from?

[muck]

That's something I've always been wondering about. Germany lacks of natural ressources itself, so I don't think the Nazis were capable to stash away enough oil to fuel their war machinery for the following six years. Furthermore I don't think that any country not directly allied to the Reich would have continued to supply more oil. Any hints?

[RSone]

Occupied territories, axis allies(those that hadn't yet been crushed by the Soviets) and synthetic oil.

[NowPlaying]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_oil

[Silent Reader]

after googling for Wehrmacht & Öl (German for oil), the first hit seems to be a pretty comprehensive article on this question (in German). where came the oil from, where did they plan to get their future oil from, who were the sympathizers and supporters in the oil industry.. etc

Click me, I'm a link
(http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/oel/jagd.html)

[RSone]

after googling for Wehrmacht & Öl (German for oil), the first hit seems to be a pretty comprehensive article on this question (in German). where came the oil from, where did they plan to get their future oil from, who were the sympathizers and supporters in the oil industry.. etc

Click me, I'm a link
(http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/oel/jagd.html)

Luckily I speak a fair bit of German, but English and American forumers will have a hard time reading that. Is there a English version of the same text?

[shiftypowpow]

I hope this works


http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/oel/jagd.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/oel/jagd.html%26hl%3Den

[Silent Reader]

ah I forgot about that :)
if something in the google translation doesn't make sense just ask me ;)

[Rudolph]

How Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa perfected one of the world's most exciting new fuel sources. (http://www.slate.com/id/2152036/?nav=ais)

[chuckster]

Rumania had oil fields and the Rumanian government was very friendly to Germany. The Turkish government was also friendly to Germany at the time and I believe there is some oil production comming out of Turkey.

[Zalmoxes]

Most of the German oil came from the Romanian oil fields in Ploiesti. They protected that region quite ferociously.

[Ulytau]

As i read there was oil ships at North Sea and nazi submarines wont attack em..

[johanness]

I was wondering about this question a lot of time, too.
It seems like a lot of the needed fuel was synthetic oil, produced after a method from
Friedrich Bergius, who got the Nobel price for it.

"By 1 September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, thus launching WWII, hydrogenation plants had reached the predicted output. By 1940, the synthetic fuel production had jumped to 72,000 barrels per day that was 46 % of all the fuel supplies. About 90 % of aviation petrol, without which Luftwaffe aircraft would not have taken off, was provided by hydrogenation."

http://eng.neftevedomosti.ru/press.asp?issue_id=78&material_id=594

Also, some oil was bought from neutral states loke spain.

[PVJ]

Romanian oil fields.

[johanness]

Wikipedia about Friedrich Bergius :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Bergius

[domokun]

If I remember correctly...

Soviet Union supplied Germany with oil until Barbarossa.

[muck]

woot Thanks everyone!

[Kilgor]

all of the above

Trade, Romania, Russia, FT conversion from coal.

[GrimReaper]

Most of the German oil came from the Romanian oil fields in Ploiesti. They protected that region quite ferociously.
My grandfather was a chemist in one of the refineries, a bit Ironic considering he was a Jew... Later he was deported, being Jew and as security risk of course.
My dad had the distinct pleasure of being bombed by all sides during the war.

[deagle]

they probaly do have their own natural resources, how much is the question. i believe thats why they went into africa.

[Eoin666]

If I remember correctly...

Soviet Union supplied Germany with oil until Barbarossa.


USSR supplied huge amounts of oil right up until 1941.....nice of them.

I think the agreement went back into the 30's where Stalin traded oil for German machine tools and use of training areas inside Russia.

[iLikeFlickerstick]

Rockefeller owned the controlling interest of US Standard Oil company and made major sales to the Third Reich.

http://mit.edu/thistle/www/v13/3/oil.html

http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_04.htm

[RichardH]

Most of the German oil came from the Romanian oil fields in Ploiesti. They protected that region quite ferociously.

Yup. The USAF(USAAF) conducted many hairy and disastrous bombing raids to the Ploesti oil fields back in ww2.

[Yosy]

The main reason for Hitler diverting his tanks from the push into Moscow to the Ukraine and Crimea were the fossil fuels (oil included), I belive.

[Dodge]

The main reason for Hitler diverting his tanks from the push into Moscow to the Ukraine and Crimea were the fossil fuels (oil included), I belive.

Yep they were on their way to Baku I believe.