Al Murray

But the German public aren't going to go, well, thank God that there's great big fucking guns on the Norwegian coast defending us, are they?

They're never going to...

Even the political component that has to come into all of this, right?

Because we've talked about the strategic bombing campaign.

When that gets going and when the Allies start to win it, the Germans have to defend Germany.

Even though it would probably be better to defend in depth to deal with the strategic bombing offensive and intercept the... You know, they've got to intercept bombers over Germany, haven't they?

They've got to do it so Germans can look...

look up and go, well, at least they're defending us, right?

But these great big coastal guns that have cost whatever, billions of Reichsmarks, surely, or tens of thousands of billions of Reichsmarks, no one can go, well, at least they're, you know, maybe they'll look at it in a magazine and say, well, Norway's obviously safe, but what a waste.

And it's the wrong sort of waste.

You know, war is waste, about waste, and it's the wrong kind, right?

Get your balance sheet out.

Right?

How much steel and fuel and resources, how much steel are you using to protect this iron ore?

Are you getting enough iron ore for the steel?

Right?

Because you're literally using the resource.

You're using the resource you're trying to protect.

Get the Excel spreadsheet out and work out how much steel is being used to defend this iron ore and whether the Germans are in the red on this or in the black.

And also, I mean, it's large numbers of soldiers, isn't it?