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Oil, Steel and Railways | The Three Resources That Decided World War II
World War II was not won solely through battlefield tactics or military genius. Victory belonged to the nations that controlled three critical resources: oil, steel, and railways. This documentary explores how industrial capacity and logistics determined the outcome of history's largest conflict.
While generals planned operations and soldiers fought battles, the true struggle occurred in oil fields, blast furnaces, and railway yards. Germany and Japan entered the war with fatal resource deficiencies that no amount of tactical brilliance could overcome. The Allies possessed overwhelming material superiority that translated directly into military power.
This three-part analysis examines how petroleum scarcity strangled Axis war machines, how steel production capacity predicted victory, and how railway networks enabled—or prevented—sustained military operations.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00- PART I: Black Gold - The War for Oil
14:51 - PART II: The Furnaces of War - Steel Production
32:31 - PART III: Steel Arteries - The Railways That Moved Armies

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
General Works:

Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won. W.W. Norton, 1995.
Tooze, Adam. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. Viking, 2006.
Harrison, Mark (ed.). The Economics of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Ellis, John. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. Viking, 1990.

Oil and Resources:

Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Hayward, Joel. "Hitler's Quest for Oil: The Impact of Economic Considerations on Military Strategy, 1941-42." Journal of Strategic Studies, 1995.

Industrial Production:

Wilson, Mark. Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Barber, John and Harrison, Mark. The Soviet Home Front, 1941-1945. Longman, 1991.

Logistics and Railways:

Van Creveld, Martin. Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton. Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Mierzejewski, Alfred. The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945. University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Japanese Theater:

Drea, Edward. Japan's Imperial Army. University Press of Kansas, 2009.
Parillo, Mark. The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II. Naval Institute Press, 1993.

Primary Sources:

United States Strategic Bombing Survey Reports (1945-1947)
German Federal Archives - Wartime Production Records
Russian State Archive of the Economy


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