Operation Edelweiss

When

23 Jul 1942 – 18 Nov 1942

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

43.30° N, 40.81° E

Description

1942 military operation

Placed at the coordinates of its German Wikipedia article.

Series of Axis and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of WWII

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 Maykop, Grozny, and ultimately Baku.

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• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Adolf Hitler befiehlt vom Führerhauptquartier Werwolf in der Ukraine aus das Unternehmen Edelweiß zum Vorstoß der Heeresgruppe A in den Kaukasus”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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