Cool ,cool, sorry about the misunderstanding,Carl Schwamberger wrote: ↑21 Oct 2020, 16:39Back in 1979 I took a university course from a old professor named Flanagan. His original PhD subject had been the viability of the Chezchoslovakian economy of the 1940s. Just weeks before he was to complete it Hitler ordered the occupation of Bohemia and separated the Slovakian state from the Czechs. Thus wiping out Flanigans several years of research and analysis. He said his US Army serve in Europe was a personal vendetta. But, to get to the point; In the 1950s Flannigan returned to Czechoslovakia to do a bit more research. In the course of that some local academics discussed how during nazi administration the productivity of factories declined significantly in terms of output per labor hour. This was not part of the class work so Flanagan did not produce data or anything, but I've kept it in mind as a illustration of the complexity of analyzing economic and industrial power production, capacity, potential.charwo wrote: ↑20 Oct 2020, 08:55... BTW, while I've spent a lot of time studying the human element in World War II Germany, but getting hard and fast calculations on costs per military unit and limits on raw materials. Even someone like Tooze his figures on planes are only cost per plane, not the total cost of equiping an air wing, with all it's logistical support, money to train pilots, mechanics, etc. ...
Hey you're a biut older than me, so given everything I know about the Nazi vampire economy, why did people into the late 60s beleive that Nazi Germany was a model of efiencency? I thinking of that Star Trek Nazi Land episode. I guess I shouldn't be that surprised that regimes in Germany and Russia that wasteful of human life would also be wasteful of other resources, oh the scale of the stupid is astounding. I'm wondering when and how that perseption changed and if it was still in process in the late 70s?