[WarInEur] Severe Weather Effects

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once again, Karl helps debunk another ridiculous Cold
War pro-Nazi panzer pusher argument.


--- Karl Gaarsoe <oscardalibrarian at yahoo.com> wrote:

> OK, Reality Check guys.
>    
>   READ (Again?) The Relevant chapter in Martin van
> Creveld, Supplying War. Chapter 5, "Russian
> Roulette",  (pp 142-180) (Cambridge Univ Press,
> 1977)
>    
>   Then think about it for a couple of days, and read
> the whole book.
>    
>   Supporting evidence:  Achtung-Panzer, Heinz
> Guderian, Translated by Christopher Duffy, Arms &
> Armor, London, 1992.  (originally in German, 1937)
> See the appendix, especially the chart reproduced
> below.
>    
>   Production of Motor Vehicles:
>    
>   1935
>    
>   US 74.1%
>   UK  9.1%
>   France 5.3%
>   Germany 4.7%
>   Canada 3.1%
>   Italy  1.2%
>   Others  2.5%
>    
>   1936
>    
>   US 77.2%
>   Britain 7.8%
>   Germany 4.8%
>   France 3.5%
>   Canada  3.4&
>   Italy  0.9%
>   Others 2.4%
>    
>   OK, Motor Vehicel production at this time is
> pretty much a reflection of the state of the
> industrial base and the societies preparation to
> wage mechanied warfare.  Duh, Hitler was INSANE. 
> Even after occupying France.  The French GM plant
> manufactured an unknown number of the standard 3t
> trucks (Opel Blitz) for the Germans;  Somewhere on
> the Web a couple of years ago I saw how a surviving
> example was being restored by a French reenactor. 
> But the records have been conveniently lost.....
>    
>   But I think if we are going to continue to call it
> a historical model, no chaining MSU in Severe
> weather areas.  The Germans just didn't have the
> resources.
>    
>   Karl Gaarsoe
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