Patreon & Subscribestar Supporter Questions: “So an interesting tit bit came my way through the excellent 'we have ways' podcast. France had a reasonably high per capita number of cars and hence a robust infrastructure to support this. So when France was invaded Germany could use this to the Blitzkrieg advantage. In comparison Russia had a low car number (when you compare to size of its territiory), which would have been a contributing factor to the difficulty of invasion. Do you have other interesting logistic tit bits that had a very important but rarely disscussed effect on the war? “ “A topic I struggle to find a meaningful amount of information is the naval aspect of the german-soviet war in wwII. Although this may be beyond the scope of this q&a, I would greatly appreciate some insight into this topic or references to sources you consider to be of solid quality. Thanks, really enjoying your work. “ “Modern topics, again. When? And Cold War as well!” “I've visited a number of WW1 sites in France over the years (Verdun, Arras, etc) and noticed the bulk of visitors and even small memorials (Fort Douaumont) are German. As a German speaker (not German, I understand) can you understand why this may be? I don't have statistics to prove anything - - just anecdotal evidence.” “What do you think of Heinrici, he did hold hundreds of km during Case Blue with just a few divisions & many other instances. I think he was the finest defensive tactician of WW2 & much under-rated - would you agree? Also, what do you think of his plan to strip Berlin of it's garrison (only partly successful thanks to Goebbels et al) & try to hold the Oder-Neisse line as long as he could, hoping that a stalemate would cause the Allies to cross the Elbe? With hindsight he was dead wrong but at the time do you think this was a not-crazy idea, given his resources & the political climate? Or should he have made a token resistance & saved the Ninth Army from destruction? Thanks, Brian”