Yes I believe a string of modifications to existing AFVs was doable but any real increase over the historic AFV/weapon production would not have kicked in until mid to late 1942. One could push the yearly production figures ahead by one year ...this would give an idea of the potential.behblc wrote:Paul would Germany have had the industrial base and manpower (troop wise) to do all this betwen fall of France and Start of Barbarossa ?
Civilian economy, believe it or not. Germany as a country amassed ~ 4 million wheeled vehicles by 1939 and 75,000 tractors. By the end of the war this stock had dwindled to ~ 300,000 vehicles , so the germans did end up appropriating this stockpile.If the heer were only being allocated a fraction of truck production were was the rest going ?
No problem or argument, my premise was simply to ask....'had they taken the slavic threat seriously', what could they have done better to dramatically improve their chances of victory in the east.To be able to do all this would Germany be able to do it all ?
Its unlikely that even if the resources to do this were to hand , the will to accomplish it was lacking. Hitler was discounting Red Army strengths , totally underestimating what he was taking on and against the background of these decisions its most unlikely that any mass production would have been given the go ahead.
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