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Originally Posted by LJAd
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I think that dovoting more resources will not mean that you will have more UB ,steel in not enough:there were few UB ship yards (you can't ask Messerschmidt to build UB ),thus you have to enlarge the ship yards or build new ones,to allocate them more technicians ... |
Well. This is a question of economics: Given enough time, if you double the amount of resources allocated to a certain end, you can more than double final output (because of economies of scale).
For example, if Germany allocated 11 billion RM instead of the historical 5.5 billion between 1940 and 1944 for U-Boat construction, them in a long time frame (5 years, for example) they would have more than double the number of U-boats made per month.
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The earliest date the Germans could have enough UB to treathen the allied shipping was in 1943,and in 1943 they lost the Battle of the Atlantic due to the allied countermeasures . In fact ,after the US entered the war in december 1941;the UB war was a defensive ,to delay the build up for Overlord .
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Well, before 1943, in the historical period, the u-boats were killing britain. In 1942 britain imported less than in 1941, in 1941 britain imported less than in 1940, etc. If the trend continued, britain would starve, in fact, in 1942 the volume of imports was only about 25% of the volume in 1939.
The UB war had the objective of starving britain out. The delay of the build up for overlord was only of the many good consequences (to the nazis) of starving britain out.
Anyway, with the about 200 billion RM freed from the Eastern Front, I think they would have exerted more pressure on the western allies, don't you think?