Comments by "ODDBALL SOK" (@oddballsok) on "Goebbels on the German Food Crisis 1942-1943" video.

  1. I am no food expert, but I dont think your end conclusion is right. a) if DL not go to war with RU..then still hunger and DL people starve in 1944 anyway..even if west allies wld not have landed in france. =wrong. If no DL army active in RU then a lot less soldiers were drafted and lot less military wld have to be fed. a german worker requires LESS FOOD than a german soldier...including OVERHEAD (staff, civil servants). german soldiers demobilized and working in DL on fields wld yield MORE food. also, during the RU invasion, a great number of polish and russian POWs worked on german farmfields..less effective perhaps..but farming could take place on paper. so why the HUGE drop in farming produce? goebbels mentioned it, and it is a god given certainty: WAR IS HUNGER...always ! But interestingly goebb diary shows that there were TWO YEARS of BAD harvest in germany and in ukraine. That is nature..and this happens today as well. The DIFFERENCE is that (1) DL had no big food diversity: if weather is bad for crops then and potatoes AND wheat AND carrots etc = wasted. No alternative foods. and more importantly (2) DL could NOT TRADE with the rest of the world to BUY foods from elsewhere on the planet to compensate. .. and that is why TRADE and PEACE are prerequisites for good food supply on a strategic scale. a war can last only as long as you cld muster stocks....in 1940s techniques and national scale ...only a year at max. if not attacking RU..DL cld still continue to BUY wheat from RU (with functioning farms)...and DL wld yield also more food (cows, pigs). Facing only UK and the sea route blockades...
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