[InMemoriam]

Anybody know why Germany didn’t have better success with their Luftwaffe air force in stopping the Allies? I haven’t seen much reported or discussed about that.

Having lost Romania, they have to rely on synthetic fuel, so extreme shortages. They have to run tanks, trucks, aircraft, and all other vehicles with miniscule access to crude oil. German strategists considered this decisive.

[PapaNew]

*”Having lost Romania, they have to rely on synthetic fuel, so extreme shortages.”*

That is very interesting.

I found a quote about that:

“Field-Marshall Karl Gerd Von Rundstedt of Germany. When interviewed by newspapermen, he readily admitted how important oil had been in World War two. In fact, he attributed German defeat to three factors, to wit: (1) the Allied bombing sorties (strategic and tactical); (2) the bombardments by Allied naval guns; and (3) Germany’s own deficiency in oil, especially in the form of gasoline.”

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/339