Case Blue

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Wehrmacht offensive World War II Eastern Front campaign military operation

Case Blue was the German Wehrmacht’s 1942 summer offensive on the Eastern Front aimed at seizing the oil-rich Caucasus and advancing toward Stalingrad during World War II.

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Label	Occurrences
Case Blue canonical	47

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Wehrmacht offensive ⓘ World War II Eastern Front campaign ⓘ military operation ⓘ
aimedAt	Battle of Stalingrad ⓘ surface form: capture of Stalingrad cutting Soviet access to Caucasus oil ⓘ seizure of Caucasus oil fields ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Fall Blau ⓘ
belligerent	Nazi Germany ⓘ
cause	German desire to regain strategic initiative after winter 1941–42 ⓘ German need for oil resources ⓘ
commandedBy	Adolf Hitler ⓘ Fedor von Bock ⓘ Maximilian von Weichs ⓘ Wilhelm List ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ
consequence	encirclement of German 6th Army at Stalingrad ⓘ heavy German and Axis losses ⓘ overextension of German forces in southern USSR ⓘ shift of strategic initiative to the Soviet Union ⓘ
country	Nazi Germany ⓘ
endTime	1942-11 ⓘ
followedBy	Battle of Stalingrad ⓘ
hasPart	Operation Braunschweig ⓘ Operation Clausewitz ⓘ Operation Braunschweig ⓘ surface form: Operation Dampfhammer Operation Braunschweig ⓘ surface form: Operation Edelweiss Operation Braunschweig ⓘ surface form: Operation Fischreiher
involves	Heeresgruppe Süd ⓘ surface form: Army Group A Army Group B ⓘ German 4th Panzer Army ⓘ German 6th Army ⓘ Luftwaffe ⓘ Red Army ⓘ
location	Caucasus ⓘ surface form: Caucasus region Don River ⓘ surface form: Don River basin Southern sector of the Eastern Front ⓘ Stalingrad ⓘ surface form: Stalingrad area Volga River ⓘ surface form: Volga River region North Caucasus ⓘ surface form: southern Russia
militaryBranch	Luftwaffe ⓘ surface form: German Air Force Wehrmacht ⓘ surface form: German Army
opposedBy	Soviet Union ⓘ
partOf	Eastern Front ⓘ surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
precededBy	Case Blue planning phase ⓘ
result	German strategic failure ⓘ Soviet strategic victory ⓘ
startTime	1942-06-28 ⓘ
strategicObjective	defeat Soviet forces in southern USSR ⓘ secure oil resources for the German war effort ⓘ
theaterOfOperations	European Russia ⓘ surface form: Southern Russia and Caucasus
timePeriod	autumn 1942 ⓘ summer 1942 ⓘ

Referenced by (47)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Battle of Stalingrad → operation → Case Blue ⓘ

Operation Barbarossa → followedBy → Case Blue ⓘ

German 6th Army → operation → Case Blue ⓘ

Italian 8th Army → tookPartIn → Case Blue ⓘ

German 4th Panzer Army → operation → Case Blue ⓘ

Operation Citadel → relatedTo → Case Blue ⓘ

Operation Blue → alsoKnownAs → Case Blue ⓘ

Hermann Hoth → participatedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

Heeresgruppe Süd → participatedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

Unternehmen Barbarossa → followedBy → Case Blue ⓘ

Operation Clausewitz → partOf → Case Blue ⓘ

Fall Blau → alsoKnownAs → Case Blue ⓘ

Axis forces on the Eastern Front → engagedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

40th Army Corps → engagedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

Army Group B → notableOperation → Case Blue ⓘ

Army Group B → engagedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

Operation Braunschweig → partOf → Case Blue ⓘ

Operation Braunschweig → relatedTo → Case Blue ⓘ

Ewald von Kleist → participantIn → Case Blue ⓘ

Army Group South → operation → Case Blue ⓘ

Commander of Army Group A → notableOperation → Case Blue ⓘ

middle Don River → relatedMilitaryCampaign → Case Blue ⓘ

Maximilian von Weichs → participatedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

Army Group A → notableOperation → Case Blue ⓘ

Army Group A → participatedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

German 1st Panzer Army → engagedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

German 17th Army → notableOperation → Case Blue ⓘ

Luftflotte 4 → notableOperation → Case Blue ⓘ

2nd Panzer Army → participatedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

6th Army → participatedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

2nd Army → operation → Case Blue ⓘ

Unternehmen Blau → alsoKnownAs → Case Blue ⓘ

Don River region → notableOperation → Case Blue ⓘ

Operation Edelweiss → followedFrom → Case Blue ⓘ

Operation Edelweiss → partOf → Case Blue ⓘ

2nd Army (Wehrmacht) → participatedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

Battle of the Caucasus → partOf → Case Blue ⓘ

Battle of Voronezh (1942) → partOf → Case Blue ⓘ

German Army Group B → operation → Case Blue ⓘ

Battle of the Don River (1943) → precededBy → Case Blue ⓘ

German summer offensive of 1942 → hasAlias → Case Blue ⓘ

Southern sector of the Eastern Front → notableCampaign → Case Blue ⓘ

Commander of Army Group South → associatedCampaign → Case Blue ⓘ

Stalingrad area → notableMilitaryOperation → Case Blue ⓘ

German Army on the Eastern Front → notableOperation → Case Blue ⓘ

6th Panzer Division → participatedIn → Case Blue ⓘ

German Army Group A → notableOperation → Case Blue ⓘ