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To: Calvin Locke

Yeah. Sheer genius, huh?

Wipe out your forced labor industrial capacity so you can inflict negligible casualties on your enemy.

It’s the story of the German weapons decisions throughout the war: overreaching technically, not understanding the development risks and timing.

Russians built simple, durable hammers (T-34) that they produced massively. Who said it? Zhukov? “Quantity is its own kind of quality”.

The other good example of Nazi infatuation with technosolutions was the Jumo engine: the thing had to be overhauled about every 10-20 flight hours making it nearly worthless.


32 posted on 11/06/2018 2:13:07 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator
Russians built simple, durable hammers (T-34) that they produced massively. Who said it? Zhukov? “Quantity is its own kind of quality”.

Early in Barbarossa when the Germans looked like they were going to rout the Russians, a German general observed a T-34, and remarked that if the Russians could mass produce them, Germany would lose the war.

34 posted on 11/06/2018 2:14:42 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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