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- From: vzhivov@alfred.carleton.ca (Vladimir Zhivov)
- Subject: Re: _Target Hitler_ a book review
- Message-ID: <vzhivov.727678312@cunews>
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- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <1993Jan16.000650.24674@acuson.com> <vzhivov.727151250@cunews> <1993Jan18.194701.10378@acuson.com> <2025@spam.ua.oz>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:51:52 GMT
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- In <2025@spam.ua.oz> jaskew@spam.ua.oz (Joseph Askew) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan18.194701.10378@acuson.com> miklg@acuson.com (Michael Goldman ) writes:
- >>vzhivov@alfred.carleton.ca (Vladimir Zhivov) writes:
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- >>>So to sum up my response
- >>>to Guderian's claims (as related above) - BOLLOCKS!!!
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- >> The time Guderian was referring to was the 1939-1941 Hitler-
- >> Stalin Friendship pact. Possibly you didn't hear of it?
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- >I would also like to say that I have heard this story. Also another one.
- >Guderian claims he was shown around a Soviet train factory. He says that
- >besides trains that factory also built, as a side line, tanks. They made
- >22 tanks a month. Guderian calculated how many months production this one
- >factory would take to match the *entire* Wehrmacht's supply. It was something
- >like thirteen. This was *one* factory which wasn't even a tank factory. He
- >claims to have told Hitler this too.
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- I don't know. Soviet factories were very much organized into single
- purpose complex. And consider the amount of re-tooling required to
- switch from trains to tanks - it would be simply too inefficient to
- produce both in one place.
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