re: #436 buzzsawmonkey

No. The distinction between how resources were intentionally allocated and whether, once allocated, they could be used as intended is not small.

Giving allocation priority to scarce rail stock for the purpose of shipping civilian populations to their death over supplying one’s own troops is a major distinction.

I agree. It is a military axiom that amateurs study tactics. Professional soldiers study Logistics. Logistics, particularly the movement of supplies by train over vast distances were the arteries that kept the German war machine moving. Any decisions to limit those trains showed where the real prioirties lay.