PugJesus comments on Nazi wunderwaffen

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world [S] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Explanation: Despite the post-war reputation of German science as ZE FINEST IN ZE WORLD, during WW2, much of the logistics of the Nazi military was handled by horses. Very, uh, high-tech?

Their logistics situation was a little fucked, especially once they started eating the horses on the Eastern Front.

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I always thought using horses was pretty normal and unsurprising during WW2 but that's because I learned mostly about my own country of Finland and we were pretty damn poor and not very industrialized.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 1 year ago

The Allies were largely motorized in their logistics, though there was some use of horses with the Soviets. This was largely because the UK had made a major effort to motorize logistics before the war, and because the USA was producing (and distributing) trucks like they were going out of style.

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