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When German troops finally reached the oil-rich city of Baku, the brigade set fire to the oil fields. The brigade soldiers died instantly, but succeeded in fatally damaging Baku's oil fields to hinder the Wehrmacht's usage of it. Even worse, the majority of the German troops were caught in the massive flames. Much of Army Group A and the Sixth army died within hours, including General von Paulus.

This is completely silly. The oilfields of the Caucasus comprise thousands of wells, spread across hundreds of kilometers, not just a small district in Baku. They are not all in one place, where all the Germans march in, and then they can all be set on fire at once.

And when an oil well catches fire, the fire might spread... let's say to a radius of 100 meters. So each well fire burns up about 3 hectares. 5,000 wells, 15,000 hectares, 150 sq km. IOW, a very small fraction of just the Baku peninsula (1,400 sq km), much less of the entire region of Azerbaijan (about 80,000 sq km).
 
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