>>19965140>It is irrelevant what German generals said.I don't think it's irrelevant, I think it's interesting. That said, I don't think Germany ever had a chance of winning. Their military industries never came close to matching those of the Allies. They may have had the biggest tank, the first functional jet fighter and the first man-made object in space (a rocket during a test flight), but they didn't produce enough of anything to make a difference. For every German tank there were at least four Soviet tanks. For every German truck, there were twenty American trucks, and the American trucks were bigger and better.
In the same museum where I found
>>19965139 they had comparisons of what the Germans and the Allies were fighting with on the Western Front in September 1944. The Allied stuff was remarkable - they had moveable hydraulic bridges, modern ambulances equipped for surgeries, fully stocked field kitchen trucks, bulldozers, cranes, artillery pieces with rubber wheels, minesweeping tanks, et cetera. The Germans, meanwhile, had a handful of small trucks, some towed carts for transporting goods, artillery pieces with hard, thin wheels, and not a lot more than that. And no, this isn't because Germany was already destroyed by then - the month prior to the battle, August 1944, was the all-time industrial output peak for Germany during the war.
