Trains dont go everywher they arent streets. The Germans had to repair enlarge and regauge the rial systems for there trains. The spring and fall in the steppes is praticly monsoon. The steepes turn to a see of mud. Tracks wold be washed out. IN the winter the trains would get snowed in. The winter of 41 the Germany army practily froze to death and starved. The practicaly no existan infustrcutre couldnt handle tehe German supply needs
over 3 million german and there equipment needed to be supplied. thousands if nt millions of tons a day were needed for the entire asault force, Food ammo, Fuel, oats for horses, spare parts, medical supplies, cabling for filed phones, etc.
I posted an America account of German truck production it was between 50 and 60 thousand a year till mid 44 when they just coulnt make anymore. A total of about 250K for the war. The ehigest estimate is 500K total. Thats for the WHole military. Across all of europe in Africa, the mediterian, Russia and the Midle east wich most people dont even know had fighting going on.
From the Americans:
One of the first actions taken by the German Transportation Division to prepare itself for the upcoming war with the Soviet Union was to complete a preliminary analysis of the Soviet rail network. This effort highlighted the following - only four major east-west running trunk lines connected the western border regions of the Soviet Union (including the recently annexed regions of Poland and the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) with Soviet rear areas:
Niemen river to Leningrad (double track)
Bug river to Orsha to Moscow (double track)
Bug river to Kremenchug to the Donets basin (double track)
San river to Odessa (double track)
The four above named trunk-lines were intersected by only six major north-south running trunk lines:
Koeningsberg to Kremenchug (double track)
Riga to Orsha to Kharkov to the Donets basin (double track)
Odessa to Orsha to Leningrad (double track)
Sevastopol to Kharkov to Moscow to Archanglesk (double track)
Leningrad to Moscow to the Donets to the Caucasus (double track)
Leningrad to Moscow to the Caucasus (double track)
A vital rail line also extended from Leningrad to Murmansk (double track). From rear area cities such as Moscow and Leningrad, the main rail lines, in double track format, went further east into Siberia and on to Vladivostok. (However, for the purposes of their planning purposes, the Germans concentrated their planning efforts on the European portions of Russia.
This rather sparse network was fed by numerous smaller, single track, feeder lines whose transport capacities were far from optimal. In fact, the majority of the Soviet rail line network was the same as it had been for the Czars armies 20 years earlier. In some regions of the Soviet Union, single track rail lines existed for no apparent reason.
Only three important industrial or urban centers contained a dense network of rail lines; the Donets industrial region, Leningrad and Moscow. Moscow was in fact a key hub; cut off Moscow and the entire Soviet rail network would be seriously crippled.
U.S. Army Center Of Military History There is books here and about the Partisan sabotage and harassemnt of the German logistics that went on from Day one.
There is no way in hell they are hauling 3 million poeple they dont even know where to look for back to Germany to kill. Especialy when they could have just shot them dead...like 30 million russians.
They fought at 10 one odds agaisnt them. We stil dont know where they al are. MIA offices in Germany exist to this day. We were overwhelmed. Teh wether and terrrain were bad enough plus amuch larger enemy. Germany was to busy trying to keep land took then too make a weak batte line weaker by using manpwoer for that stuff.
Jsut like Americans in IRaq but ona much more vast scale every convoy had to be escorted and guarded against Partian insurgents.
Its an imposibel feat to commit this supopsed crime while fighitng single largest land campaign in human history and doing it for 4 years and being pushed back for aprox 2 or more.
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