Chris Madel

And you've also, crucially, got fewer people who know how to drive.

And you've got fewer petrol pumps.

So it's just, there's a general shortfall in mechanised, motorised vehicle.

So much emphasis is now being put on the spearheads, which are motorised.

to a kind of totally unhealthy degree.

It's sort of covering over all sorts of horrible cracks.

And of course, the truth is that the Polish campaign is not a yardstick at all for testing the German war machine.

It's all very on the money.

Extraordinary.

It's all good stuff.

I've read it.

It's fantastic.

It's all very, again, very on the nose.

Right, okay.

Am I supposed to be pleased, Herr General?

The problems quickly mount up, because he realises that motorised armed forces require a motorised economy, but Germany doesn't have a motorised economy, really.

It has no capability to mass produce whatsoever.

The current motor industry is very, very privatized.

So there's lots and lots of little makers and there's lots of little plants all over the place and coach makers and all the rest who do the bodies and other people make the engines and other people do the upholstery and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's about 10 years behind everybody else.