Thanx jumbo, youīre absolutely right.
After Stalingrad germans were really suffering with supply problem. The quality of clothing even for soldiers was fast going down.(For waffen SS though I think only the best was offered) Not talking about plastic.So it was even worse for others as things like Tigers probably couldnīt be built from cheaper materials. And the man hours for one tank...I darenīt guess but it was alot.
One of Speerīs secrets was ( to my knowledge ) bulding small factory complexes around the reich, and probably more efficient usage of "slaves". For instance Himmler in his 10/43 speech regrets the loss of masses of slaves due to bad treatment.Speerīs work was at its best in autumn 1944 right before the battle of the bulge. Sad though that many of the aeroplanes were useless due to the limited petrol reserves. On 1 january a thousand luftwaffe planes flew and bombed the allied airfields, and many hundred were lost due to fact that they did not have enough petrol. As the Reich started to get smaller, also Speerīs work started crumbling.
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