WW2 - Caucasus: Axis advance (Aug 1942)

Combat footage. German Wartime Newsreel (Die Deutsche Wochenschau).

Operation Edelweiss (German: Edelweiß), named after one of the best-known European mountain flowers, was a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus and capture the oil fields of Baku during the Soviet-German War. The operation was authorised by Hitler on July 23, 1942. The main forces included Army Group A commanded by Wilhelm List, 1st Panzer Army (Ewald von Kleist), 4th Panzer Army (Colonel-General Hermann Hoth), 17th Army (Colonel-General Richard Ruoff), part of the Luftflotte 4 (Generalfeldmarschall Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen) and the 3rd Romanian Army (General Petre Dumitrescu). Army Group A was supported to the east by Army Group B commanded by Fedor von Bock and by the remaining 4th Air Fleet aircraft (1,000 aircraft in all). The land forces, accompanied by 15,000 oil industry workers, included 167,000 troops, 4,540 guns and 1,130 tanks.


The starting point of the operation on the Krasnodar-Pyatigorsk-Maikop line was reached on August 10, 1942. On August 16 the battalion commanded by von Hirschfeld made a feint and reached the Kadar Gorge. On August 21 a Nazi flag was installed on Mount Elbrus, the highest point of the Caucasus.

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[celtagas]

biggest mistake of the war was attacking russia

[FlorianGeyer2009]

Nobody run away. They fought and died as it was ordered. This is what you never will understand.

[Avia179]

ВСЁ ПОШЛО НАОБОРОТ

НАДАВАЛИ НЕМЦАМ В РОТ))))))Гыыыыыы

[Dmia232]

На месте моего района стоят немецие танки 6:45 . НАши деды вытурели этих тварей! Слава ветеранам!

[BUKOVSCAN016]

What is the song at the end?

[Heer88]

@celtagas no other alternative otherwise Stalin would of attacked

[bunnyrabbit008]

The German's weapons and equipments are much better than of the Japs

[Tiger1AuasfE]

The scene with the raven was the best...Very nice video thnx for uploading.

[graciemaemarie11]

we roll against.... asia...and its BARBARIANS...

[graciemaemarie11]

our advance against mongolia

[graciemaemarie11]

@Edmund007013 so true, stalin was the true zog-mongol BARBAIAN-outside of mao and the khan, the greatest monster of all time-our brave germans were the standard bearers of the protection of europe against...the BARBARIANS from beyond the ural wall that GOD put up to protect us against the mongol-zog-asian BARBARIANS.....

[graciemaemarie11]

we were the best, just took on too big a country as mongol-barbarian-asiatic-savag­e-russ-land