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Originally posted by Jumbo_Wilson:
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....Before the advent of Speer I find it hard to believe the level of near-anarchy that existed. Individual services competed with each other for resources from an equally competetive bunch of Nazi placemen, ideologues and fools all trying to get one up on the other guy. All Hitler would do if faced with a problem is create an agency to deal with it - leaving definition of powers deliberately vague. Coherent design philosophy in vehicles seemed absent leading to a spare parts nightmare at the front. Not only was fuel short, but Rubber, Copper, Chrome, Zinc...all the things you need to run a war economy. Agriculture was worse. In 1933 Germany was self-sufficient in food. By 1939 after a series of hapless ideologically driven policies based on a nazified rural idyll Germany was importing large amounts of grain to make up the shortfall. You cannot run a war economy if you refuse to be pragmatic...
Jumbo
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Where are your facts? This is news and I have never heard of any "committees". Also, Agriculture did not fall under Speer. So while I would agree with some of what you said, it does not count under this topic