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Originally Posted by VtwinVince
Germany had a few poor quality allies, most of whom dropped out of the conflict early on.
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..the original post referred to the Luftwaffe's 'mediocre' performance... My point about Bomber Command was specifically about production, not the validity of 'terror' bombing. Few Allies ?.. by 1941 Germany controlled the entire Continental European coal and steel industry, not to mention the huge French aviation industry, which had just introduced the brilliant D.520 & Amiot 351/354 - and still failed miserably to produce the aircraft that the Luftwaffe required to wage the war on which it's mediocre leaders had embarked, churning out instead thousands of He 177, Me 210/410s etc etc etc..The British on their own were indeed 'out-producing' them for long periods..(Lancaster, Mosquito etc etc) ..but does this really need to be said...
and to answer Remi's point ...
by late 1944 90 Allied divisions were facing 60 German divsions in Western Europe..in the East it was 560 Soviet divisions vs. 240 German...some have argued that the Soviets had won the war by 1944, whether the Anglo-Americans invaded or not...