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this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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That's wild if they didn't have modern assembly systems in place, because they had tons of tanks, airplanes, and other machines of war. They dominated the battlefield with their abundance of mechanization. From what I've read, they still had a lot of supplies and machines by the end of the war, but they ran out of people.
Watch the video, it goes in depth on their tank production methods, and specifically the inefficiencies within it.
Germany strongly pushed that exact propaganda, especially at the beginning of the war. They wanted their military to be perceived as bleeding edge. That perception has stuck, but it simply wasn't true. Germany was not nearly as mechanized as it wanted to be perceived as. Any early advantage it had from stockpiles of pre-war production (of early war designs which were often outdated by mid or late war) were absolutely crushed by allied numbers, and America alone vastly outproduced for almost every year of the war.
Wow, the USA and Russia combined made over 50,000 tanks in a single year.
Nazis: "We have tanks at home"
USA and USSR: "TANKS, TANKS, TANKS"
Imagine what society would be like if we could all band together to build improvements like we were able to do to build war machines.
Oh hey look at that special M3 in the photo. Neat.