German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue

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Case Blue was the major German Wehrmacht summer offensive on the Eastern Front in 1942, aimed primarily at capturing the oil fields of the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad to cripple the Soviet Union’s war effort.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Wehrmacht operation
World War II Eastern Front campaign
military offensive
alsoKnownAs Fall Blau
German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue
surface form: German 1942 summer offensive
belligerent Nazi Germany
characteristic division of German forces between Stalingrad and the Caucasus
overextension of German forces
commander Adolf Hitler
Fedor von Bock
Friedrich Paulus
Maximilian von Weichs
Wilhelm List
conflict World War II
consequence encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad
heavy German and Axis losses
turning point on the Eastern Front
country Nazi Germany
endDate 1942-11-19
followedBy Operation Little Saturn
surface form: Soviet Operation Little Saturn

Soviet Operation Uranus
includes Battle of Stalingrad
German advance into the Caucasus
involves German 4th Panzer Army
surface form: 4th Panzer Army

6th Army
Army Group A
Army Group B
Heeresgruppe Süd
surface form: German Army Group South

Red Army
surface form: Soviet Red Army
location Caucasus region
Southern sector of the Eastern Front
Volga region
surface form: Volga River region

southern Russia
objective advance to the Volga River
capture of Stalingrad
capture of the Caucasus oil fields
seizure of oil resources to cripple Soviet war effort
opposedBy Soviet Union
partOf Eastern Front
surface form: Eastern Front of World War II
precededBy Operation Barbarossa
result German strategic failure
Soviet strategic victory
startDate 1942-06-28
strategicAim force the Soviet Union out of the war
secure fuel supplies for the German war machine
theater Eastern Front
timePeriod 1942
year 1942

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Soviet winter counteroffensives of 1942–1943 followed German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue
Operation Uranus precededBy German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue
this entity surface form: German summer offensive Case Blue
German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue alsoKnownAs German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue
subject surface form: Case Blue
this entity surface form: German 1942 summer offensive
Don River region wasBattlegroundIn German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue
this entity surface form: German 1942 summer offensive
Soviet Operation Uranus precededBy German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue
subject surface form: Operation Uranus
this entity surface form: German summer offensive Case Blue
Stalingrad strategic defensive operation (main sector) precededBy German 1942 summer offensive Case Blue
this entity surface form: German summer offensive Case Blue