Скачать или смотреть A German Colonel Seized 50,000 Gallons of American Fuel — And Understood Germany Was Already Lost!

On December 17, 1944, SS commander Joachim Peiper rolled into the deserted American fuel depot at Honsfeld and thought he had found salvation: 50,000 gallons of high-octane gasoline, enough to push his Tiger tanks toward the Meuse and maybe change the fate of the Ardennes Offensive. Instead, as his men refueled from neat rows of U.S. jerry cans, Peiper realized a brutal truth—what was a miracle to the Wehrmacht was a rounding error to an enemy that could casually burn 8 million gallons just to deny it to him. This deeply researched historical narrative follows Kampfgruppe Peiper from that frozen Belgian morning to the final abandoned tanks at La Gleize, using diaries, logistics reports, and production statistics to show how American oil fields, pipelines, and truck convoys quietly decided the Battle of the Bulge long before the last Tiger ran dry.