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Originally posted by General der Infanterie Friedrich H:
Not really, Speer was far more capable than Todt.
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I always wonder on what such blatant statemets are based on.
I think it has much to do with the fact that Todt died in 1942 and Speer had all the time to write one memoir book by another to "create history"...
I don't want to spoil your statistics party, but...
...as the German historian Rolf-Dieter Mueller had proved, Speers so successful production statistics and his "production miracle" (Overy) was a based on, well,
lies.
Especially for 1944.
(source: Kroene/Mueller/Umbreit:
_Organisation und Mobilisierung des deutschen Machtbereichs. Kriegsverwaltung, Wirtschaft und personelle Ressourcen 1942 - 1944/45_ in:
Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg Vol. 5/2, 1999, pp.753)
Mueller's findings are supported by Hans Mommsen (
_Der Mythos von der Modernität. Zur Entwicklung der Rüstungsindustrie im Dritten Reich_ in: Stuttgarter Vorträge zur Zeitgeschichte issue 3, 1999).
So be careful in trusting any of "his" numbers.
Cheers,
P.S.: Kudos to CrazyD88, you've got it right, man.
[ 23 August 2002, 06:06 PM: Message edited by: AndyW ]