The Effect on the German Oil Situation of the Loss of the Roumanian, Hungarian, Polish and Esthonian Oilfields. Memo. By the Technical Sub-Committee on Axis Oil

(a) While the loss of the Roumanian and Polish supplies, which are most immediately threatened, would substantially reduce Germany's capacity to resist the degree of attack to which she is now subjected, the period for which she could meet operational requirements by drawing on stocks cannot be precisely estimated. Unless Germany were prepared fundamentally to alter her strategy and use stocks set aside for special purposes, this period would be unlikely to exceed two to four months and might be negligible.