My favorite part of this is how the Germans relied on trains to move Tiger tanks because they couldn’t drive long distances on their own. So when the Allies carpet bombed all the German rail yards, the Germans couldn’t move tanks to where they were needed. When rail lines were open, they prioritized the Holocaust and sending people to death camps over military objectives (such as making sure your troops have ammo or food. Those are obviously unimportant).
Nazi ideology is a death cult. People considered extermination of undesirables the primary objective of the war, rather than the war they were actually fighting. Whenever you hear “the trains ran on time,” it’s (knowingly or unknowingly) referring to getting cattle cars full of human beings into concentration camps.
My favorite part of this is how the Germans relied on trains to move Tiger tanks because they couldn’t drive long distances on their own. So when the Allies carpet bombed all the German rail yards, the Germans couldn’t move tanks to where they were needed. When rail lines were open, they prioritized the Holocaust and sending people to death camps over military objectives (such as making sure your troops have ammo or food. Those are obviously unimportant).
Nazi ideology is a death cult. People considered extermination of undesirables the primary objective of the war, rather than the war they were actually fighting. Whenever you hear “the trains ran on time,” it’s (knowingly or unknowingly) referring to getting cattle cars full of human beings into concentration camps.