Fwd: Truth is the First Casualty of War

[Brad De Long]

>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>"American trucks gave mobility to the Russian army in the last year 
>or so of the war."
>
>glb:
>
>I wonder how many of those trucks were war booty confiscated from the Germans.

Very small numbers. The Nazis scorched the earth all the way back 
from Stalingrad to the Polish-German border, leaving very little of 
military (or even civilian) use intact.

Minsk, for example, was recaptured by the advancing Soviet armies 
extremely quickly during the collapse of the German Army Group Center 
in the summer of 1944. Yet the Nazis still had time to demolish the 
city, leaving less than a dozen buildings standing.

Brad DeLong