Oil campaign targets of World War II


of the oil campaign targets of World War II included attacks on Nazi Germany oil refineries, synthetic oil plants, storage depots, and other chemical works. Natural oil was available in Northwestern Germany at Nienhagen, Rietberg, and Heide and refineries were mainly at Hamburg and Hannover. Refineries in France, Holland, and Italy —mainly coastal plants for ocean-shipped crude—were within Allied bombing range and generally unused by Germany. Even before the war, Germany was dependent on foreign sources for an adequate supply of oil. The annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland ; the "campaigns in Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France…and imports from the Soviet Union provided significant wartime POL imports to Nazi Germany. Firms that operated oil facilities included Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft, Brabag, , and I.G. Farbenindustrie.
TypeGermany Germany Foreign
Bergius
plants		Bottrop-Welheim
Castrop-Rauxel
Duisburg
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen
Homberg
Kamen
Sterkrade/Holten
Wanne-Eickel		Blechhammer
Essener Verein
Leuna - most heavily defended oil target in Nazi Germany
Ludwigshafen
Lützkendorf-Mücheln
Wesseling		Poland
Fischer-
Tropsch
plants		Dortmund
Kamen-Dortmund
Odertal
Ruhland-Schwarzheide		Lützkendorf-Mücheln
Essener Verein		France
RefineriesAustria
Vienna
Vienna
Vienna
Vienna
Vienna 		Bremen
Chemnitz
Cottbus
Dortmund
Düsseldorf
Emmerich
Hamburg-Harburg
Hanover
Magdeburg
Mannheim
Mittelwerk
Monheim
Nienhagen
Regensburg
Rositz		Austria
Czechoslovakia
France
France
Hungary
Hungary
Poland
Poland
Poland
Romania
Romania
Romania
Romania
Romania
Oil fieldsNienhagenHungary
Oil
storage
depots		Austria: Bücken
Bruges
Dülmen
Ebenhausen
Erfurt
Erbach or Ebrach
Frankfurt am Main
Freiham
Hamburg
Kassel
Marienburg
Munich
Neuenheerse
Roudnice nad Labem
Winterhafen)
Würzburg
Underground:
Ehmen
Farge
Hitzacker
Loccum
Nienburg		Belgium
France
France
France
France
France
France
France
France
Italy
Italy
Romania
Romania
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia