Peter Caddick-Adams
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“Hitler was already aware of the differences between German and US industrial manufacturing methods, but had done nothing to implement change; in February 1942 he had observed, ‘We’ve always been hypnotised by the slogan “the craftsmanship of the German workerâ€� â€� we are far behind the Americans [in industrial terms] â€� they build far more lightly than we do. A car of ours that weighs eighteen hundred kilos would weigh only a thousand if made by the Americans.”
― Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
― Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
“I AM A creature of the British Army. My father served in the Second World War. My grandfather and his brother commanded battalions in the First World War; their”
― Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
― Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
“Yet some of these austerity measures were needed desperately, as German designers tended to over-engineer their inventions: for example, the sixty-ton Tiger I tank took 300,000 man-hours to manufacture compared to 55,000 for a Panther, 48,000 for a Sherman â€� and only 10,000 hours for a Russian T-34.”
― Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
― Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45
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