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by baud147258 289 days ago
> they were doomed before the Russian invasion since they were out of oil

Didn't they were receiving oil (and other raw materials) from the URSS beforehand?

edit: found a figure on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_economic...

I don't know if that'd cover the war needs in oil of Germany, but once they had started a war with the soviet, they had no choice but to try to get to the Caucasus for the oil.