re: #205 Targetpractice

Atop that, instead of pooling resources and manpower as the Allies did, they engaged in (and encouraged) factional rivalry so that no one service had a monopoly on Hitler’s favor.

They built but never commissioned an aircraft carrier, The Graf Zeppelin, partly because Hermann Göring insisted that he personally control everything that had to do with flying, from naval aircraft to paratroops to anti-aircraft units on the ground.