Well, unless those workers were created after 1945, and those equipments were invented after 1945, or the factories that produced them were built after 1945, they would be right there.ljadw wrote:It is not because the SU was able AFTER the war to increase its oil production (from 31 million in 1940 to 38 million in 1950) that Germany would have been able to increase its oil production during the war by exploiting new oil fields : where would Germany get the needed workers, equipment, etc...?
Germany was able to increase during the war its own crude oil production from 1,5 million in 1940 to 1,9 million in 1943. More was impossible as Germany could not afford the enormous investments to exploit new oil fields .
Historically they were used for different purposes. That is understood. It is also understood that putting a simple price equivalence (1 billion worth of UBoats is means they could have produced 1 billion RM worth of tanks) is simplistic.
Yes, but to say there was no other way of running the war effort is ridiculous.
Was there shortage of oil in SU? Why would SU need to do such increase?Besides, the SU was NOT able to increase its oil production during the war .