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...solid backlog of reserve equipment for the changing needs of the war. When production falls below goals two months in a row, as seems to have happened, the Army loses not only equipment but time-and if enough time is lost, an all-out assault on Festung Europa may be delayed too long...
Notes of pessimism from Festung Europa...
...seem possible that the Nazis, hard-pressed in their Festung Europa, would attempt an invasion of Britain at this time. But there were some people in London who did believe that bullheaded SS youth might be prepared to make quick, suicidal raids. Such raids could serve the purposes of: disrupting Allied concentrations on British coasts ; gathering intelligence reports; bolstering Axis morale...
...Festung Europa was a continent behind a flexible system of interrelated land, air and sea defenses. Berlin, cocking an ear, could hear the enemy admitting that the system was formidable. Admiral Sir William James warned his country men in London: "We saw at Dieppe, which was a most carefully planned enter prise, how a few well-situated guns on shore can wreck an amphibious opera tion." Clearly, the Allied strategists who knew the score were not so foolish as to expect a quick or easy conquest of German Europe...
...Germany's attempt to drain France of all available manpower. The Germans, taking over from Pierre Laval the job of recruiting an additional 40,000 French workmen, launched one of the biggest manhunts in history. They sought workmen to build up the fortifications of Hitler's "festung Europa," for work in German factories, for services of supply behind German lines in Russia...