Battle of the Caucasus
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title:
Battle of the Caucasus
text:
The Battle of the Caucasus was a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus as part of the Eastern Front of World War II. On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet Union to the Germans and threatening the oil fields beyond at Maikop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku. Two days prior, Adolf Hitler had issued a directive to launch an operation into the Caucasus named Operation Edelweiß. German units would reach their high water ma
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Series of Axis and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of WWII
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caucasus
date created:
2005-11-26T23:09:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T05:41:11Z
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