what was it? was it an actual machine, or just the army itself being calling a machine?
2007-04-05 10:30:52 · 8 answers · asked by jim C 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Werhmact using blitzkrieg tactics.....
2007-04-05 16:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Figurative word usage only:
Since Germans are orderly, the army, navy, air force (Luftwaffe) and tank corps, alpenkorps, Afrika korps
were called "functioning parts" of a machine controlled
by one crazed dictator, Adolf Hitler.
Yes, they had trucks, automobiles, railroad engines, cranes, motorcycles with sidecars, .88 artillery and Schmeisser machine-pistols to augment rifles grenades, mines, primitive radar, telegraph, even the ME 262 jet,
telephones, submarines etc.--but the "machine" referred to in the quote was the whole armed forces to which everything civilian was sacrificed.
2007-04-05 20:29:45 · answer #2 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wasnt an actual machine, but as a whole the wehrmacht and the ss were a well functioning unit, therefore called a "machine"
2007-04-05 17:35:22 · answer #3 · answered by comtnman2003 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't actually a machine, it was the military as a whole.
2007-04-05 19:48:30 · answer #4 · answered by Murray H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the war machine wasn't a machine per say..
but it is more than just the military...it is the whole nation's effort to support a war..
which includes resourses,technology,industries,farmlands/workforce/people's attitudes etc.
2007-04-05 19:01:14 · answer #5 · answered by Jungleboy6996 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a phrase, propaganda, used to describe the German Army , Air Forces, Navy and financial war build up.
2007-04-05 17:43:17 · answer #6 · answered by Brite Tiger 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it was called a "machine" because at the height of their power no one could defeat them
2007-04-05 21:03:25 · answer #7 · answered by el amo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
u kidding
it was the army
2007-04-05 17:33:36 · answer #8 · answered by chrishomingtang 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋