I've been looking for some of those pictures of German "vehicles" being towed by horses ala The Beverly Hillbillies and need to post up some of the wood buring fuel converter vehicles running around. These make the above look good. By 1944 the German military and vehicles was getting really pathetic.

Please do T.A. I would love to see them .

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

By 1944, the Germans had been fighting for 5 years, the Ami's......barely gotten their feet wet yet. Germany was out of oil.
After reading this Thread, I wonder just how the German Army ever managed to bumble & fumble their way across all of Europe.

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I supose this must be an escapee out of Germany on some U-Boat Coffe grounds! I suppose this was Ersatz!
A Truck That Runs on Coffee Grounds (and How Wood-Gas Powers Cars With Garbage) : Gas 2.0


Now seriously...

Ford Germany, original factory photograph , 5 x 7 , has factory stamp on reverse with address as "Adolf Hitler Platz Koln..."


Magirus Deutz


1944 VW Type 82 - Wood Gas Generator


And last but not the least...

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

What is the before-last photo, Fallschimjäger zu Pferd?

Anyway this thread is too one sided, the US Army resorted to non-motorised transport too.


http://www.theliberator.be/handcart.htm

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Must have been hard to Para Drop them huh? LOL

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

LOL Too onesided?? In a thread about the German Military lol? Well if anyone one wants to add anything about other armies they can go ahead. But I bet you wont find many instances where the majority of a country's transportation throughout the war was horse drawn . Especially one that some think was highly mechanized and High Tech.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

By the way that is one of my favorite movies. Though I think John Wayne was a little long in the tooth for the part .

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

I think The Longest Day was on TV last night and I missed it .

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Go back

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

This thread reminds me of the part in "Band of Brothers" where Webster is yelling at the Germans as they march, defeated, in the center of the road. Webster starts yelling at them. It's hilarious!

here is the clip!
YouTube - Band of Brothers - Webster's Mini-Speech

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Scott

So, do you think the horses were trained to parachute too?

be aware that the Wehrmacht was quite fully equipped with horse before mechanization, there were able stock to use just sitting, loafing and eating grass in what was bucolic territory before it was chewed up, especially in Ost Preussia, so we should not be all surprised, and also letting nature taking its course with natural means - bllllllllllt !! so back into the earth

Would have been interesting to see them come out of a plane LOL. Horse apples from the sky!!!!

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

And still they managed to give so much trouble to the world. Amazing those guys aight?

I think a thread like this only adds more value to the average grunt of the Wermarcht.


Cheers...