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"The plan called for the German armoured columns to drive for three days and three nights without interruption. To ensure that the drivers could go without sleep, the quartermasters of the advanced units stocked up with tens of thousands of doses of Pervitin, the original formulationof the amphetamine now known as ‘speed’, but more familiar in the 1940s as ‘tank chocolate’
Panzerschokolade)."
— Mar 25, 2026 06:42PM
Panzerschokolade)."
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"Far from lacking clear priorities, the German industrial war effort was dominated by only two components: aircraft and ammunition. Between them, these two items claimed more than two-thirds of the resources committed to all armaments production in the first ten months of the war"
— Mar 25, 2026 11:27AM
Swarthout
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"To keep an airfleet of 21,000 aircraft airborne, the Luftwaffe would need to start the war with stocks of at least 10.7 million cubic metres of fuel. To build this gigantic reservoir Germany would have needed to purchase fuel in the early 1940s at the rate of 3 million cubic metres per annum, twice the current level of global production."
— Mar 24, 2026 10:55AM
