The WWII Allies bombed French, Hungarian, Norwegian, and Rumanian oil facilities controlled/occupied by Nazi Germany as a Combined Bomber Offensive priority. Even in peacetime, Germany was dependent on foreign sources for an adequate supply of oil. The annexation of Austria, the "campaigns in Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France ... and imports from the Soviet Union" before Operation Barbarossa provided significant oil supplies to Nazi Germany.
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