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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
Germany had strong industrial base If you read Adam Tooze's book "The Wages of Destruction" he makes a case that Germany's industrial base was actually quite weak in certain respects. It had some very good, modern firms but not enough of them. That was why throughout the war the German army was mostly dependent on horse-drawn supply vehicles for example. |
But the industrial bases of all European countries had at least some weaknesses after the Great Depression. And IMHO no European country had capazity to motorize c. 220 divisions in mid 1941 (the size of the German Army at that time), probably even USA, with its large automobile industry, would have big difficulties to achieve that.
Juha