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Something that surprised me: the German army in WW2 was mainly horse drawn. According to the below link, 80% of its transport was via horse. https://www.zdnet
by lostlogin 2y ago
Something that surprised me: the German army in WW2 was mainly horse drawn.
According to the below link, 80% of its transport was via horse.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-wwii-german-army-was-80-horse-drawn-business-lessons-from-history/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-wwii-german-army-was-80-ho...
- 082349872349872 2y agoI believe this has a lot to do with the failure of the Maginot line: it had been constructed to slow down an army with horse-drawn logistics (after all, germany had no oil) but the germans did their end run with mechanised units (having researched synfuels in the meantime). From 1940 to 1943, one can readily explain Axis strategy as an insatiable quest for more oil: no barrels, no Blitz. EDIT: Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Medicine_Crow#World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Medicine_Crow#World_War_II
- jabl 2y agoReflecting the interwar German society more broadly; agricultural mechanization was decades behind the US and UK. The industrial and economic "miracle" of the pre war Nazi regime wasn't spent on tractors either, but on weapons.