Allied bombing of the oil campaign targets of World War II included attacks on
Nazi Germany oil refineries,
synthetic oil
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plants, storage depots, and other chemical works. Natural oil was available in Northwestern Germany at
Nienhagen (55%—300,000 tons per year),
[ Rietberg (20%—300,000), and Heide (300,000) and refineries were mainly at Hamburg and Hannover. Refineries in France, Holland, and Italy (54)—mainly coastal plants for ocean-shipped crude—were within Allied bombing range and generally unused by Germany][
:Cover letter:
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::*"Part 10": _____ ] (Italian refining ceased in August 1943).[
] Even before the war, Germany was dependent on foreign sources for an adequate supply of oil. The annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland (and the breakup of Czechoslovakia
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); the " campaigns in Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France…and imports from the Soviet Union provided significant wartime POL imports to Nazi Germany.[
Fanto]
(Pardubice, Budapest),[ and ]I.G. Farbenindustrie
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(Blechhammer, Ludwigshafen/Oppau,[ Oświęcim).
]
References
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