The gift of it's your problem now

Re:The gift of it's your problem now by ClumsyPilot on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:46PM (#29744653)

Help me understand your train of thought, so if there Nazis had 'free labor' they would never have shortages of oil and natural rubber? Would it just magically appear? And without the shortages they would have won the war, right?

That must be the point you are making, because if they would have lost anyway then your argument makes no sense?

And what about USSR, their 'free but not free' labor caused them to win and loose simultaneously?

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Re:The gift of it's your problem now by WalterBright on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:10PM (#29744795)

If the Nazis had free labor, they would have done better, but they still would have lost because the US was bigger.

The USSR likely would not have prevailed against the Nazis if the US didn't supply them. Or at least it would have been far more difficult for them.

Synthetic rubber - "Production of synthetic rubber in the United States expanded greatly during World War II since the Axis powers controlled nearly all the world's limited supplies of natural rubber by mid-1942"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_rubber#World_War_II

Synthetic fuel - "During World War II (1939-1945), Germany used synthetic-oil manufacturing (German: Kohleverflüssigung) to produce substitute (Ersatz) oil products by using the Bergius process (from coal), the Fischer–Tropsch process (water gas), and other methods (Zeitz used the TTH and MTH processes)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel#History

The V2's were fueled by alcohol from potatoes.

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