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PATRICK

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1. Albert Speer
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 06:28 PM
Apr 2

In his autobiography written after decades in prison, Hitler's bright young guy in charge of war production was grilled by puzzled and chagrined American military experts as to how in holy hell German war production kept going up despite constant massive bombing raids. He told them how they played it, especially getting them to bomb useless targets, even ones that needed demolition so they could put new stuff up. That did not sit well at all with Curtis Le May, probably not the British war criminal who thought fire bombing Dresden was the thing, nor McNamara in charge of non-radioactive roasting of Japanese civilians before his glorious Vietnam days. Forget the failure. Double down on pure slaughter. Again and again...and apparently again because this is ALL about ego and stupid.

Of course, now we are actually running out of bombs and nakedly facing lethal toy airplanes.

I think Speer mainly was in Nuremberg on the slave labor charges.

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