Chris Madel

grinding gears and all the rest of it.

This is in a pre-Synchromesh age where you're having to double de-clutch and stuff.

And until you master it, it's quite a palaver.

It's tricky.

Yeah.

So von Schell, this is just after the Polish campaign, when that's over by the end of September 1939.

He's like, phew, okay, right.

And now I can really sort of try and start to get to grips with this.

But can you give me a bit more warning in future?

That hasn't happened.

Then has come France and the Low Countries and Norway and all the rest of it.

And now he's being told they've got to do the Soviet Union.

So he's got a massive, massive headache.

And he knows it's only going to get worse.

And his attempts to streamline things haven't been working terribly well because people just aren't playing ball.

Because actually, the Nazi state is completely chaotic.

There's not enough motorised transport to meet our current urgent needs, let alone... What might come in the Soviet Union in May 1941, yeah.

No.

I mean, you know, everyone listening to this will go, well, hang on a minute.

You're saying all these figures are so bad and they haven't got enough and they can't do this.