[2ndDivisionVet]

The Germans, despite their image as a highly mechanized Blitzkrieg force, used horses, carts and pack animals heavily right up to the last day of the war.

[riverdawg]

“The Germans, despite their image as a highly mechanized Blitzkrieg force, used horses, carts and pack animals heavily right up to the last day of the war.”

I am reading a book on the Battle of Metz, autumn 1944. I don't have the book with me, but a passage I read last night indicated that, in preparation for an impending Allied offensive, the German army was trying to purchase horses and mules from local German citizens in order to be able to move artillery pieces to the front. Most of them, not wanting to back what was beginning to appear to be the losing side, refused to do so.