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![]() "BUFDRVR" wrote in message ... In my view fuel as a poor third reason. According to interviews with Albert Kesselring, fuel shortages severely limited training and was, according to him, the leading cause of eventually losing air superiority over their own country. One thing that the German high command is excellent at is finding excuses for their failures. One of the reasons WW2 happened was that they successfully convinced the German people that they had been on the verge of winning WW1 when the politicians "stabbed then in the back." So what do you expect him to say: A) Our failure to train enough pilots early in the war meant that we got into a vicious circle of: pilot shortage leading to, shorter training leading to, higher casualties leading to, pilot shortage. B) We were winning when we ran out of fuel, due to circumstances beyond my control. |
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