re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think it has more to do with how the US dedicated resources to the Manhattan Project that Germany could only dream of.

I finished reading The Wages of Destruction, about the German war economy, a few weeks ago. One key idea was the Reich was throwing money at all kinds of projects — jet planes, submarines, the V-2 rockets, the A-bomb, tanks, and on and on — so much so that there was not enough money for any one thing. It was robbing Peter to pay Paul, especially when it came to steel and aluminum. If the Reich had managed to capture Soviet resources, it might have succeeded with any of those programs. But losing the Eastern Front battle doomed the war economy. Game over.