German Army Mechanization - Dr. Louis A. Dimarco
Weaknesses WWII German military logistics.
Figure 1 --This unidentified photogtaph shows a Panzerkampfwagen sprayed MKIV - the mainstay of the German armored forces during World War II but with many improvements The level of destruction suggests that he was struck by a firearm or high-speed another tank one moment he was Panzer Mark IV and the other a huge pile of scrap this is what a tank can look after receiving a direct hit by a large round tank and have it's ammunition and fuel explode together we can ensure an explosion as the crew were vaporized We are not sure of the car, perhaps a reader can identify and or truck in the background, we believe that the photograph was taken in Barbarossa, maybe July or August 1941 maybe readers will have some thoughts but what is particularly interesting here is the train of the German offer dan s the wake of Panzers Notice the slow horses This movement is the German Army logistic train that tried to follow the Panzer of the first in Moscow 1941 and t he Volga in 1942 he worked in the West, but not in the east and was a major factor in the failure of both Barbarossa and fall Blau blue case courtesy of the military history of the 20th century site.
Perhaps the most serious German military weakness was the lack of attention and inability to adequately respond to the logistics of the German officers would not be in service Quatermaster It was not where careers and professional prestige were established a result, the supply sections tended to atract poorer quality agents this may be true in other armies as well, but it was especially true in the German army and it was traditional German tend limited industrial base of Germany was a factor in their low logistics system accordingly, Hitler launched the war before Whrmact was fully mobilized Heer still relived heavily on draft animals, both for supplies and artillery There was in particular not enough trucks This was only partially resolved by entering the trucks in France and other occupied countries for military committed Blitzkrieg say mobility and speed it was a serious weakness that means coulkd provided to keep step with the advansing Panzers It was a smaller area in an army destined to win a war in a brief period, but was of vital importance for an army engaged in a war protacted Citino, p xiv the Wehrmacht had this weakness in the short campaigns on relatively small battlefields in Poland and the West the battlefield of emense presented by the Soviet Union was a logistics system Aeak very different turned out to be a critical weakness on the eastern front, where the Wehrmacht had to face enormous distances, hostile weather conditions, and a network primitive transport and planning Barbarossa did not address this potential problem Hitler demanded an aggressive invasion plan and es planners have raised potential problems were often criticized or removed after the Allied landing in Normandy had logistical problems Wehrmacht difficulty providing Armie's as far as the Volga was insurmountable logistical problems It is not true as often claimed that the Wehrmacht was not uniform warm winter clo thing wasstocked wearhouses to the Reich what Germany did not have was a logistics process that could get to the warm clothes in the troops logigistical the system was strained get fuel, amunitiuoin, and other supplies to the troops and thus winter clothing was low priority in a campaign that was suposed to be completed in a short summer campaign the red Army FACD part of the same Wehrmacht problemsxthe logistics fcd, but Sovier outputvfrom not only their own factories ti support, but a great name ber of American trucks deliverd by Lend-Lease.
Citino, Robert M German war Way of the Thirty Years War to the Third Reich University Press of Kansas Lawrence, 2005, 428P.
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