The German Reich may still wage a long and strong defensive war, but it can achieve no more major blitzkriegs or offensives on the Russian scale. This was the conclusion that authoritative Allied observers, official and nonofficial, drew last week from evidence that two great bottlenecks are now choking the Nazi economy.
The two bottlenecks are transport and manpower. Both are fundamental; both have been developing for years. Hitler was warned of them by such knowledgeable advisers as Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and some of his key railroad men before the war began....
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