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Originally Posted by Raellus
The German's biggest mistake was devoting so much of their war industry on small production runs of extremely complex and complicated wonder-weapons. That, coupled with a delay in converting to a war economy and late-war shortages of fuel and raw materials due to strategic bombing and sabotage meant that the Germans would never be able to translate any technological edge into a decisive strategic advantage.
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Here you hit the nail on the head:
Germany was running on the equivalent of peace time production well into 43: It took Speer a lot of work to convince Hitler to allow German industry to work overtime hours, and more than one shift!