Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "The Paradox of Germany’s WW2 COAL Problem" video.

  1.  @pwmiles56  It is odd they used the Soviet word. You're right about that.
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  2.  @pwmiles56  They refused to let The Bolsheviks expropriate a good German word.
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  3. IG Farben is a curious case. They became so interlinked with The Wehrmacht that they could be considered more a parastate organisation than a private corporation. Hitler being such a petrol head was definitely unfortunate for The Reichsbahn.
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  4. Impressive sarcasm.
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  5.  @TheImperatorKnight  They tried coal gas.
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  6. You have to remember that coal is a plant concentrate, even if it looks like a mineral.
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  7. US submarines played a role in winning The Pacific War which often gets overlooked.
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  8. Neither was the key problem imo. Rather the Reichsbahn being starved of resources because of rearmament was the real problem, though I'm sure the other factors made things worse.
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  9.  tokul76  You should read a book about Bomber Command.
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  10. It was because of the shortage of raw materials, the result of breakneck rearmament.
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  11. It was all very lopsided.
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